hello my beautiful family and friends.. so this week was a good one. lots of
mini miracles were seen and smiles made :)
so today was district meetings.
we had an awesome lesson on virtue... we were given an egg to hold on to and
protect. we were then blindfolded and taken outside to the Forrest and had to
walk through the Forrest over trees and through bushes while holding on to a
rope. while slowly finding our way through we had the district leaders try to
smash our egg (our virtue) we had to do all we could to protect it... but if it
got broken!! we had to step away form the rope and plead for help... after
asking for help we then received a new egg and was guided back to the rope. this
activity was a great way of showing how we should live both as missionaries and
non missionaries. the egg is something we hold dear. sometimes we are tempted
and smash our egg or lose our way from the correct path of life. but when we
think we are lost, confused, or sad because we feel alone and we've lost
everything. all we need to do is just plead for help by getting on our knees and
praying for guidance or support. its ok to mess up or sin. we are all human and
far from perfect. even though sometimes we can be stupid and try to hide the egg
by sticking it in your pants like i did... i ended up smashing the egg all by
myself even without temptation. i just happened to run into a tree.. i didn't
know it was there cause i was blindfolded.. sometime we cant see trials coming.
when they do come we just need to remember that Christ will always be standing
with you to give you a new egg so you can continue on your way.
Another good thing we had happen this week is we just found out that pappy the
toy maker our eternal investigator told us that he hasn't been taught any lessons
and that past missionaries have just done service for him.. he told us that he
recorded an lds documentary that talks a lot about us (due to Romney running for
president and he happens to be lds). pappy asked if we could sit down with him
to explain things and he had lots of questions about things. he has told us
multiple times that he is just so amazed and impressed with the missionaries and
our values and church. when people bash our church he will get very offended and
correct them. he hates anything negative said about us... we are praying to put
him and his wife on date soon :) for the next two weeks we are going to be helping pappy set up for his toy shows
and we will be giving him the lessons too...
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| First picture here is of a deck us four elders (Elders Ker, Macfarlane,
Watson, and I) painted for an investigator. it was a three day
process... such a pain. |
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| Picture #2 has anyone seen the show "the middle" this picture looks similar to the opening scene of that show. |
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| Picture #3 we decided to go to the complete other side of the Bristow
area and we found this one lane bridge.. it is at the top of a hill so
you can't see oncoming traffic... the best you can do is sit there,
pray, count to 3, then hit the gas, and hope no ones is over there...the one way bridge was so small that we could reach our hands out the window and
touch each side... id say it was just barely big enough for a truck with wide
hips(dualy). |
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| Picture #4 this is what Bristow looks like.. one random house then
100 acres of fields and Forrest surrounding it... pretty crazy how there
is country so close to the city.. |
