Yes. I am excited to start college.
Where
is the location of the housing for the honors scholarship?? And how
much rent would I pay if I was living with Skyler ?? I just want to have all the facts before I make a
decision. I just want somewhere that's in a good location, cheaper, and
where I can be happy. Honestly, it doesn't really matter to me who I
live with, as long as I have my personal space.
So this week was pretty great/different.
Monday, we went to our Bishop's house and practiced, with his wife, for a musical number we performed yesterday.
Tuesday,
Romeo finally let us help him help with his house. So we painted primer
on his walls while we talked about Missionary Work. Then we had lunch
with a great old Guatemalan lady. While there, it started pouring rain.
Pretty great. We then had interviews with President Shields, in which we
talked about missionaries "Locking Their Hearts." Despite the rain, we
got two new students in our English Classes and had a great class.
Wednesday,
we did some service, went back to our "Mexican Minefield" where we
found a man name Carlos, home alone. So we taught him the first lesson
and he was Super Solid. It was pretty great. We then had a great dinner
with the Chatter Family (the one's that took us to Niagara Falls).
Thursday
we had a great lunch with our investigator. She is preparing for
baptism (hopefully soon), so we were pretty excited to meet with her and
teach her. It went well. We had some Indian Food.
Later, we did more service and then had dinner with another member family, then we had to run to another Music Practice.
Friday,
I directed another District Meeting. It went really well. We had a
Sister Bingham visiting, so I asked her if she was related to Erastus
Bingham? And she was like "The one who has a monument in Lagoon??" And I
said, "Yeah." Then she said "Yeah." Distant Cousins! So I took a
picture with her (see below). I also made lot of cookies for District
Meeting. So that was pretty fun.
Later on Friday, I went on
exchanges with an Elder. He speaks
little English, and even less Spanish. So I talked for the majority of
the lessons we had. Which was great because I love to talk, especially
in Spanish.
Saturday we taught English Classes again. Then we
had Missionary Coordination. Then dinner with a fun Peruvian Couple.
Later that evening we passed by some Less-Active, Part-Member families
and we met a lot of really nice people. So hopefully we'll be able to
work with them soon.
Sunday was a great Easter Day. Sadly,
none of our Investigators came to church. :( But just about all of the
members did, so that was good. We killed it on our musical number. I
played "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" on the piano while three sisters
in the Ward sang in Spanish. Later on Sunday, we had a really long
dinner with some members and their friends. It was pretty
bizarre. They just talked about politics (especially Donald Trump) and
the most BORING stuff for about two hours while my companion and I just
sat there and cried. :) We didn't really cry...at least not on the
outside. Luckily, the Spirit saved us that night and we later on had an
INCREDIBLE lesson with an investigator we've been trying to meet with a
lot. She's living with an awesome less-active member (one of my close
friends) and she's very interested in coming to church and everything.
So we taught the first lesson (the Joseph Smith story) and it went SUPER
well.
My perspective on life has really changed on my
mission. It was honestly a very strange Easter I had yesterday. First
off, it was sad to see that none of our Investigators came to church at
all. Thankfully, most all of them members did; and it made me think how
sad but incredible it is how different normal people verses members view
these holidays. The world has taken such a "pagan" view on these
Holidays and even the norm of "going to church on Easter and Christmas"
is starting to diminish away. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, on the other hand, get the picture. We realize how
important the life, death, and resurrection of Christ was and how we
need to celebrate it and remember him, not only on Easter, but every day
of our lives. Another thing that struck me yesterday was how sad and
boring the world has become. The best part and the least depressing part
of the dinner appointment we had on Easter Day, was when we shared the
Church's Easter Video of Jesus Christ. The contrast was so obvious. The
whole appointment went from sad and wordly to
beautiful and filled with the Spirit. I was able to finish my Easter by
reading some pages of the book Jesus the Christ. It was wonderful and it
helped me realize even more how important Jesus Christ is. Just
speaking of him brings so much life and happiness into our lives. He's
so important and I know that he lives. He is. I love you all and hope
you have a wonderful week!!!
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