This week was pretty same 'ol same 'ol. Although it was Thanksgiving just a few days ago it did NOT feel like it, nor does it feel like Christmas is coming up. We ate at our Ward Mission Leader's house and to answer my prayers it was a self-serve kind of thing so I didn't have a tons of poly people loading up my plate :P We also only had 1 dinner which was also an answer to my prayer because I've heard horror-stories of 4 dinners involving throwing up in between homes......*bleh so anyhoo, Thanksgiving was good. And now for the irony. Me and my companion are teaching more lessons than almost everyone in the zone. And yet, we have the least investigators and least investigators with baptismal dates.....lame. We officially have 1 with a baptismal date but I don't really feel like it's a "we" since I wasn't there for the lesson, I was teaching the 15-17 yr old sunday school class (which I'll tell you about later) and now our next lesson with him is tomorrow but we're going on exchanges so I won't be there again. So I won't have been there for a single one of his lessons and I haven't even talked to him much except "hi" and "bye", lame. "/
And while my companion was committing this awesome guy for baptism, I was in the 15-17 yr old sunday school class lecturing.......I DIDN'T MEAN TO!!!!!!!!!! But it just sorta ended up that way..........they sorta reminded me EXACTLY of the YW and YM in Texas that I grew up with....and I went off..........lesson in the trash I was pretty much telling them unless they read their scriptures and started making better choices they'd end up like all their friends who are doing drugs and miserable/pregnant and miserable.....again...I didn't mean to.....It just sorta.....went that direction. BUT originally I had an awesome lesson planned! The topic was over chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Mormon which are AWESOME chapters by the way! They are SO good! They talk about everything! 2nd coming, Plan of Salvation, the prophesying of the Bible and Book of Mormon working together, the famous verse where Moroni says he hopes we'll learn from their mistakes and be more wise then they had been (9:31) And it has verses on faith, repentance, how baptism IS a commandment. How after the judgment the reason why we WILL be judged according to works is because we'd be MISERABLE if we were unrepentant and then lived in the presence of God, so it would be better to live amongst the sinners than to be miserable for eternity dealing with the anguish and guilt we'd feel if we'd live in the presence of God. Just, BOMB chapters, right?! They're just awesome! They have everything! But yeah, I had a ton prepared, but then I ended going off about how if they don't start reading their scriptures they're not gonna be prepared for the evil that's gonna attack them from all sides coming up in a few years. But what's interesting is they all agreed with me except these 2 kids, but that's because both are already doing dumb stuff. But whatevs. For some reason I STILL wanna be a YW leader, we'll see if Heavenly Father will let me after I just scolded them for an hour ;P hahahaha
Anyhoo, life is good here, my companion really is awesome, and our district is tons of fun! Not gonna lie, I missed being around guys. 22 sisters is a LOT of sisters. I can't even imagine being a Temple Square sister *shudder. But anyhoo, today we had tons of fun using Elder Mortinson's skateboard to roll down the district leader's driveway while waiting for the other elders to get there so we could go hike the Bamboo Forest which was BOMB by the way! So that's what pretty much all those pictures are. Oh and pig! We were teaching a part member family outside when we realized we weren't alone.........there was a pig right next to me....so I had to take a picture with it :P
Anyhoo I hope everyone's doing awesome! Stay warm!
Love,
Sister Bradley
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