We will have a lot of fun playing
Santa this year! And yes, we have to
work a lot on our teaching pool. But we
have some good ideas to do.
This week was a lot different than
normal. We tried really hard to teach
and find new investigators and work towards seeing immediate progress towards
baptism. Well the Lord had a completely
different plan for us. We taught very
few investigators and didn’t get to talk to many new people. But we did visit a lot of less actives as well
as active members. So pretty much I am
just going to go quickly through the main things we did in the order that it
happened.
First off, the first part of the week
was super cold! Like mid to high 30's.
Then, by the end of the week, mid 70's. Well the warm weather brought back the
mosquitoes... Not very fun, haha.
Also I was able to go on exchange to
Victoria and serve in Christ's Kitchen. It was so fun and rewarding! I love being able to go and all I can do is
serve and smile and invite. Just like
Holland's talk "Are We Not All Beggars." Super cool.
Also that day we gave some marriage
counseling to an RM. Man, he had a lot
going on! And I have never been married
and have never thought about it so I don’t know why I would be the one to give
advice about it! I find myself doing
that a lot because I pretty much have never experienced the things that people
in SouthTexas have! Even though I haven’t
done or thought or heard of these things, we are called upon to give out
counsel. It’s pretty fun, haha but a lot of the time a little stressful.
Then we went to Zone Conference. Well, since we are 2:30 hours away and it
starts at 7am always, we try to find somewhere to stay every time. Well, this
time we got the opportunity to stay with the Morton's. We had about 10 of us
from our zone there. When we got there, she gave us a bunch of ice cream and
fruit and then I noticed she had a lot of piles of Christmas decorations. Well, with some careful manipulating, I talked
her into letting me help her set up a little. It ended up that all of us set up her little
trees around the house. It was so fun!
And then in Zone Conference, my
favorite part was from Sister Ashton. She talked about choice, chosing to
believe and to have faith, choosing to accept challenges, choosing to be happy
and obedient, choosing to be content. It
was really neat and I learned a lot about how I can choose to be exactly what I
want to be.
Then in the rest of the week, we went
to a member’s and helped them to hang their Christmas lights. I got to crawl around on their roof the whole
time, so that was sweet. Then he took us
to the back and we picked fresh kale and gave it to our investigators, especially
the ones who are health enthusiasts. We
also helped a less active chop down a tree with a machete. I just went all Rambo on it! And then when I didn’t have the machete, I
would just jump and hang on to a branch and when it was bent, he would just
slice through it, so rad!
And then yesterday, an investigator,
Carlos, asked us to help him take out his water heater. Well, I forgot that it was the Sabbath...
Anyways, I just went beast mode on it and threw it out, but in the process, I
sliced three of my fingers and my thumb. I think its because I worked on the Sabbath.
And it’s ok because my pinky was untouched! And we taped it up with her corsage tape so
that I could bike home. It didn’t start dripping till I got on our street:
tender mercies! And then Elder
Roskelley, in an unprecedented surgery not known to mankind, poured about half
a bottle of hydrogen peroxide on it, covered it in gauze, and then masking
taped it all. It was amazing, haha
Well... I love you guys! Sorry no
pics this week.
Elder Lund
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