Wow. What a busy and great week!
So
I guess I'll start with Monday. We taught Anna and Grselda. They are so
cool. We read with them and they seem to be doing well. We had another
lesson with them Sunday night. We did 'CPR' or "go to Church, say your
Prayers, and Read your Scriptures". We did an object lesson with them
where you have to suspend a heavy object (such as my scriptures) in the
middle of 3 cups with knives supporting the object. Its a little
difficult to figure out the first time you do it but Anna got it after a
few tried! It was impressive and she was so excited! Its suppose to
represent each of the principles of the lesson, and without one of them
you cant support your life/heavy object. They are excited to be
baptized and Anna will be getting baptized probably in September after
she gets back from Mexico.
On Tuesday we had a great District Meeting. So
before we split up in districts we had a special speaker come in. I
found out who Elder Johnson's favorite Recent Convert was and it was
Samuel, from his first area on his mission. So I had Samuel come in as a
surprise to Elder Johnson. He was surprised and it was great to see his
reaction. Samuel spoke of his conversion and where he is now. He was
married in the temple and is working at Nellis Air Force Base. I hope it
gave the other missionaries some hope to see what can happen with the
people they work with.
Then we split up and I went with Elder Olive's District. We talked
about the whole armor of God and put on grass skirts and blew up blow up
swords, made our own shields and so on. It was fun :) We then watched
'Labor of Love' and had our closing song, "God be with you till we meet
again". I did pretty good with not crying until the prayer. I just sat
behind the piano and cried while the prayer was going on.
On Thursday was my departing interview with
President Ahlander. It was a good experience. All of the usual things.
Get an education and get married :)
Friday was our Temple
Trip. It was great to be in the temple with all the people I came out
with and to see how they have changed. We went to Golden Corral after...
and I was so sick! But only for that night :)
We also stopped by Brother Eldredge. His step son,
Brother Williams, died on Monday. He asked me to speak at his funeral on
Saturday morning. So we got to the funeral and our Relief Society
President wrapped me into playing the organ. So I played the organ, well
all but the first song since i didn't know how to play it. The funeral
went very well. Very upbeat and hopeful.
Then after the funeral we set up for Katherine's
Baptism. It was great! Probably one of the most spiritual baptisms I've
been to. she asked me to baptize her and it was a great experience. She
is a great person and I hope to see her again.
After the baptism we moved from the Bryans to the
Teshima's house. So that made us really busy. Then we had dinner at the
Godfreys with Ali (a Potential investigator), Sam (a Recent Convert),
Katherine, and another family in the ward the Lee's. It was great and
Katherine shared some of her amazing stories. She was asked to speak in
church next week. I bet it will be great!
Sunday was very emotional. I was asked to bear my
testimony and needless to say I cried a lot. I don't want to stop being a
missionary but I'll have to take off the tag. I felt really bad for
Elder Campbell cause everyone was coming up and saying that they will
miss me... but Elder Campbell is a good sport.
Elder Campbell and some other missionaries had a surprise for us
(Elder Johnson and me) on Tuesday after district meeting. they made a
parody song for us from the song, 'How can I be'. It was great. Elder
Campbell also had a friend back home look on the mission blog and my
personal blog to get pictures and create a slide show for me. It was
really thoughtful!
I love you all! thanks for the Support
Love,
Elder John
"We
can tell much by what we have already willingly discarded along the
pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is
permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left
behind included the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs;
things begin to be discarded which has caused the misuse or under-use of
our time and talent." Elder Neal A. Maxwell
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