Monday, February 13, 2017

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!
tomorrow.
To celebrate though, I'm wearing a pink tie. So that's fun. GO TO FANTASTIC BEASTS!!!! It's the one movie that makes me want to come home the most. When I was in Toronto, there were signs and billboards of it EVERYWHERE!!! It killed me.
Playing at weddings is pretty fun. Is it going to be at the church?? I learned, after I did this at a wedding, that it's against Church Handbook to play the Wedding March in the chapel during a wedding. Whoops!! It sounded pretty sweet though. Send her my congratulations.
Good work on the basketball teams guys!!! Keep winning!!! Good luck with Lacrosse Micah. And keep killing it with skating Sophie. Just remember, the better you get, the more opposition you'll get. That's how you know you're really good. :) And good luck with clogging Savannah. 'Tis a strange dance. Sounds like life is pretty busy, and that's good.
Life's been pretty busy here too.
Monday we had a pretty good P-Day. Played some sports, then later that night we were able to teach one of our investigators, Jorge. He is from Colombia, which is awesome!!! He definitely needs some more time and Jesus until he's ready for baptism.
Tuesday we met with Romeo (and Juliet, haha, just kidding). But he's SUPER ready to be baptized. He's a solid investigator from El Salvador. He just needs to wait for his family to get back from El Salvador, in March, to get baptized. No problems there. Later on Tuesday, we taught a crazy, old Ecuadorian couple. The husband is a member, but he doesn't remember and his wife is pretty Catholic. The lesson was just basically him asking us pointless questions about the church, then the couple fighting about how the Catholic church is good/bad. The lessons are pretty rough, but good Spanish practice!! :)
Also, on Tuesday, we got a Terrible Freezing Rain storm. It was SO bad. Good thing my companion is a good driver. We honestly had to drive a lot that day, so it was pretty funny. We didn't crash. Sadly, the freezing rain made it so that we had no students at our English Classes, so that wasn't funny. :|
Wednesday was a lot of service, service stuff, and cleaning.
Thursday I made a cheesecake...again. It was decent, people like it. I also bought the full Bible Videos set for $5.00 at the temple's Distribution Center. They're so good, so I'm pretty excited about that. Later on Thursday, we went to Downtown Brampton at 8:00 PM to walk around and stick up fliers. It was SO COLD and SO FUN!!! I honestly love the biting, freezing cold. So that was great. There was basically no one out walking around, because it was so cold. The Tim Horton's hot chocolate afterwards was good too. :)
Friday was a fun day. We had District Meeting, where we played a getting to know you game and did missionary stuff and ate Cheesecake. It was all very fun.
So basically our ward here is super awesome and we get dinner just about everyday. But last Friday, no one had signed up for dinner; so we decided to make it a night and go get some All You Can Eat Sushi. Bad decision....
It was all fun and games and deliciousness until we ordered round two. We were finishing up round one when round two came, and we both realized after we finished round one that we had no desire to eat anything anymore. And in front of us was a pretty big plate of sushi. And if we didn't eat the sushi, it would have cost us like 10 extra dollars. So we cried, then I thought "Hey, I've thrown up before eating sushi, I could probably do it again and then eat the rest of this to save us $10.00.” So I went to the bathroom, but I didn't thrown up. It was probably for the best.
After the bathroom though, I ate a little bit more, and so did my companion. Luckily, our waitress was a saint and didn't charge us for the extra sushi. So we had dessert and went home. :)
We had gotten a pretty big snow storm that day, so we decided to go this member's house and shovel her driveway. After shoveling, she invited us in for soup and hot chocolate. I told her that we had already eaten a huge dinner but we'll take the Hot Chocolate. But she insisted on giving us at least a little soup. So she gave us this nasty alphabet soup, and it was more than a little, and huge mugs of Hot Chocolate. It was awful. But we ate it all. After leaving that house, I could have EASILY thrown up, but I held myself together. So morals of the story, watch how much you order, and never trust the members in the Chinguacousy Park Ward to not feed you.
Saturday was boring. No one came to English Classes again. We did however have a wonderful dinner with the Ortigoza family. The husband is from Venezuela and the wife is from Bogota, Colombia. She was serving in the neighboring mission to Dad around the same time he served, so that's cool. Their adorable Hispanic grandkids were there, and they made me want kids...5 months. ;)
Sunday we got hit with a HUGE snow storm. It was AWESOME!!!! Sadly, because of it, not very many people came to church. We did have one investigator there, so that was good. We shoveled a lot on Sunday and had a nice dinner with a Uruguatian/El Salvadorean family.  Later Sunday night we went to a Fireside where our Mission President, President Shields and his wife talked about how to find true happiness. They did very well. Also, they had a group of Disney Cruise Ship singers come and sing a few spiritual songs. They were SO GOOD!!! Obviously. A few of them were LDS (one couple was fresh out of BYU) so that was really cool. It was really fun to see all the people I know in the different wards in the Stake (because I've served half my mission in this Stake). A lot of them thought that I had went home, because I was gone for so long in Leamington. It was sweet reunions.
One thing I've come to realize, through the Fireside last night, and through Gordon B. Hinckley's third lesson in his book; is that true happiness can be found through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We live in a world where famous, rich artists are put on screens, magazines, books, etc. and we are told that that is happiness: Money, sex, drugs, fancy clothes, etc. But when you take away the fancy clothes (not literally), the makeup, the money, the editing, the glamour; these people live pretty depressing lives. It would surprise you how many comedians are depressed and how many celebrities have committed suicide. They are not happy. They do not have the Gospel (most of them). If you really want to find true happiness in life, follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ, achieve great things, reach for the stars, and live life to the fullest. "Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy." (2 Nephi 2:25). Life is meant to have happiness. So go be happy. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

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