The blessed companionship
BOOM.
Time is just so weird here. I feel like I was here like 2 days ago. It totally
makes sense when people say "days seem like weeks, and weeks seem like
days."
So I'm
going to start off by sharing a super cool experience. We hitch hiked to our
little town in Prae Choo the other day. One of the recent converts here sells
sugar cane juice all day. She has 3 kids and her husband left her. One of
her sons was having troubles with his wife so the wife came and stayed with
her. In the middle of the night her son's wife came and stole all of her coolers
and sugar juice crusher--literally everything she had in order to make money.
Man it was sad. We met with her again the day after. We came and sat in her
hammocks and she told us that she thinks she needs to be less active now because
her life was just too hard. Elder Brewer explained if we're on a ship and a
storm comes, we don't jump off the ship and hope to be safe on our own. We CLING
to the ship, we don't let go. We should do eveything we can in order to stay on
the ship. I think that really helped her realize that she can rely on the Lord.
Also, props to Elder Brewer, it was awesome seeing him testify like that. We
prayed for a while actually and when the prayer was over she was crying. It was
so cool to see how happy God can make people. It's amazing:)
We were
riding our bikes in this forested area the other day and then all of the sudden
there were a bunch of cows in the road. We stopped and then this smaller
teenage cow looked at us and then booked it the other way. We got on our bikes
and just kept going on. Then this cow just mauled this kid. HARD. It was insane.
I literally thought this kid was like dead. We quickly ran over to the kid, and
before we knew it the kid just stood up and ran away crying. He went into his
house and that was it. Ha it was crazy. It's all good cause the next day we saw
him running around totally fine.
Yesterday
i was riding my new bike ( i got a new one because my other one broke, its way
cool) and we were on this road with some mopeds on it. We had to turn left and
so i checked and i didnt see anything so i turned left and i heard this whoosh
right next to me. This stupid moped was going like 90 mph and cut me off-- my
front tire hit his back tire (it made the coolest sound ever) and i managed to
stay on my bike-- but one more inch, we would have hit each other going way
fast. Ha. I wasnt tired at all that day cause of the adrenaline rush. Way scary
though.
I think I hit my low and high so far in my mission. I'm just going to say it Wednesday
just stunk. Like when we taught, every single person was just laughing at me.
Its tough when your bearing your testimony and investigators are just laughing
at you. I try my best to see it from their perspective but man! Ha cut me some
slack haha oh well. BUT 2 days ago we had a way good day. We ended the day with
teaching a less active who lately has been going to church a ton. Its awesome.
Pretty much i was in charge of the whole little lesson. I shared my scripture
and I just started talking. It was awesome. I was actually doing pretty good,
definitly not perfect by any means, but I think God knew I was having a rough
week and he gave me one really good lesson. After that I started to see a
little light at the end of the tunnel. It just made me so happy knowing that
all the work im doing is actully helping and making a little difference.
Well
missions are tough. Like wow. I'm kind of taken back sometimes at how much is in
front of me, but luckily I'm doing it for Him and not for myself or anyone
else. I love this Gospel and I love how much hope it gives to people.
peace
out grom gruasaa (family)
p.s we
found bats in our house and we might move houses cuz our house in nasty. way
stoked
Eating with the Prae Chao members
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