This week was another hard working, busy week, but we did a lot
of fun things too. Elder Mota and I made
a bet with a sister companionship that we could teach more lessons with a
member present this week. The bad part
is that they usually get about 10 and we usually get about 2 or 3, just because
of the fact that the whole branch lives in other areas and none in ours. So we made the bet so we would work super
hard, but let me tell ya, it was almost impossible. We would invite about 2 members
a day, and something would always happen and it wouldn’t work out. They would
get a surprise call to go into work, we would get too busy in other important
things, they wouldn’t be home, just anything possible. It was the same way with the sisters too. In
the end they beat us just by a few lessons... So now we have to buy them pizza.
Whatever, knowing them, they will eat a
slice each and then give the rest to us.
Also this week, we went to a recent convert’s high school girls’
soccer game. I am pretty sure that might
not be the best place for an Elder! Just
a bunch of high school girls from a bunch of teams in their small uniforms, and
then 4 Elders in the middle, haha. Luckily it was really cold, like 36, so most
of them were covered up. But she loved
that we all came so I guess it was worth it. We also started playing soccer in our branch
on Friday nights. It is pretty much just
the missionaries and all the youth, members and non-members. But we think that when it warms back up again,
we will get a lot of the other members too.
But the best spiritual thing that happened this week was with
our Mission Leader, Hermano Briones. He
is a single 30-yr-old guy who is super rich and super lazy when it comes to
church. So we went over after church and
ate with him (super good Ecuadorian chicken by the way) and then taught him how
to be a man. We watched the Mormon
message, "Let Us Be Men" and talked about sacrificing for the things
that matter most. So we made good plans
that he is going to read his scriptures everyday, and also start changing
himself into a better person instead of just complaining about how much the other
people in the branch suck. And guess
what? He called the other Elders last night and asked if he can go teach with
them! That was super cool because he is
always too busy to teach with us or give people rides. Making progress!
(On the subject of what Parker may want to do for a living
later) My patriarchal blessing says I will
travel many nations and see much sadness and poverty, but I will know how to
help them. And I need to get a doctorate
degree. I want to talk to Pres about it
in my next interview, but when I read that, I thought humanitarian of some
sort, because my Ecuador service trip is one of my most favorite memories. Maybe I will start a clean water project in Sierra
Leone, haha.
I am going to BYU in the fall, Pres told me so. And he says I am getting a stupor of thought
because I already made a decision and God doesn’t want me to change it. I am still working on accepting it as the best
for me, but I know he is right. Anyways,
if that is true, wouldn’t I need a little 4 wheel drive thing for Utah, and to
go up the mountain to ski? I haven’t thought about it much.
Elder
Lund
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