Howdy,
Everything lately has been Gucci. Life is great!
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Companion exchange with
Elder Unice from Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Good kid. Good kid.
In other news,
I'm going to be starting a new segment in my emails called "that kind of
guy". Sorry if it sounds fruity. I will try to come up with a better name
later. Basically I'm just going to describe my companion with a brief sentence
or two. First one is:
-My companion
is the kind of guy that finishes his sticks of Chapstick without losing them. I
call him Mr. Clutch.
Elder Buckley
and I were walking down the street when we passed a street. Elder Buckley said
that he had a good feeling about the street. We went and looked down the
street. It was a street that I had never been down before but it was glowing.
Kinda of the same way that people say how members of our church have a
"glow" about them. It sounds weird but it was no joke. We went down
the street with no clue why we were there other than we knew we felt good about
it.
We looked in our trusty area book app and the only person that we had on
the street was a former investigator. We decided that checking them out was a
good start. We knocked the apartment door and someone answered and told us that
the person we were looking for had moved a while ago. We told her that we were
missionaries, she told us that she wasn't interested. Elder Buckley, who can be
as blunt as a kick in the shins said,"Do you even know what we believe?
Because you wouldn't deny our message if you knew. Could we explain a little more
of what we believe so you can know what you are rejecting?" On the inside
I was like,"Oooooh kill em." She told us that she had no clue what we
believed and she gave us a chance. In a couple minutes we gave her an
explanation about Christ setting up his church and a modern day prophet. By the
time we were done she had told us that we could come back and teach her and her
family. It was nuts.
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Zone Activity! Roasting
marshmallows at the patch of dirt behind the church is about as close to nature as you can get out here. |
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| Eating a golden mallow with my golden Texan roommate |
Joseph our
Vietnam Veteran investigator is getting baptized this Saturday! He is a golden
investigator if I've ever met one. We are super pumped for that. #GetHype
Lemme leave
you with a quote that hit me hard when I read it, right where it counts.... The
heart. “Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the
right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an
exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made." Elder M. Russell Ballard
Sometimes I
grudgingly do things thinking that by doing it I will be better off in the end
cuz I have earned brownie points or something. But that's not good. The whole
point of serving and keeping the commandments is not so that we can earn heaven,
rather it is so we can learn heaven.
-Elder Tyler J
Johanson
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