Dear Family,
This week was a great learning experience!!!
We
were able to do exchanges this week with our Zone Leaders and I was
able to go with Elder Manning into his area while Elder Pierre-Louis
stayed in our area with Elder West. While on exhanges we had dinner
with a sister from Hawaii. She is serving as a senior sister missionary
and is awesome! She said that she woke up one morning and said 'I do the
same things everyday. I wake up. make breakfast. clean the house a
little. I want to do somehting different. So she told her bishop that
and he said, 'do you want to serve a mission?' she said, 'yes'. 'For how
long', he asked. 'for the rest of my mortal life'. She now has no
ending period on her service as a misisonary. She is agreat example to
me and is so inspiring!
Elder Pierre-Louis and I got to have dinner with an amazing family
this week! they came from the philippines (dont know how to spell that)
and he served as a bishop there. he came in and sat down and started
talking about all of these spiritual things! he could reherse any
scripture and he could apply them to his life and our lives very well.
He also showed us his scriptures; five years ago he started to read and
to go to every cross reference in the standard works. he is almost done.
that is one of my life goals!
He also shared with Elder Pierre-Louis and I that he can feel the
spirit with us because sometimes he sees that missionaries done get
along but he sees that we fit together like this... (imagine him
interlocking his fingers :)
That was a great experience and definitely one that I needed.
During the prayer tears were streaming down my face because of the faith
of this humble man who is definitely the elect of God.
Yesterday
I had the worst headache of my life! (so far...) and I threw up while
we were driving making visits! It was so fun!!! I just thought I would
share that as some extra words of wisdom... BE SURE NOT TO THINK SO HARD
ALL THE TIME!!! haha jk. but seriously :)
Love you all!
Love,
Elder John
"Trouble
has no necessary connection with discouragment- discouragement has a
germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different
from a stiff joint" -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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