Hey
everyone, how’s life?
Congrats to everyone
who has graduated this year from high school! And I hope everyone has a nice
summer.
I just barely emailed
this last Wednesday, so there is not much to report for the last few
days. But here are some quick bullet points in things that have happened:
•We had some good
lessons with K and her family, where we got to read the Book of Mormon with
them a little bit and testify of it. I love how they were all able to really
see how much it teaches about Christ, and how it supports and clarifies the Bible.
•We got fed some
really good Honduran soup that had palatano in it; so that was super delicious.
I hadn't had soup like that since being in Metairie around a year and half ago!
•We had some other
lessons with some of our other investigators and met some new Spanish families
we are excited to start teaching.
•We have entered
the last full week of the transfer, which means that in 10 days Elder Johnson
will be flying home to California, and I'll be starting my last transfer, crazy
how fast time goes by!
One fun thing that
happened this Sunday is that someone in the English ward bought a whole table
full of chocolate covered things, and chocolate bats, and said people could
have them. So everyone in the building was walking around with a bunch of
snacks and all the kids were getting hyper after swiping some chocolate bars
when their moms weren't looking, haha it was a very entertaining Sunday.
One thing that I wanted
to throw in is something I was reading about in my personal study. I was
studying the story of king David and Saul and I saw something that I never
really saw before. There was a lot of times when Saul was trying to kill David,
and David ended up getting the upper hand and sparing Saul’s life (Like
when Saul fell asleep in the same cave David was hiding in). In doing this, and
being righteous David helped influence Saul for good, and Saul stopped some of
his wicked actions. It made me think a bit about the story of Ammon sparing King
Lamoni’s fathers life helped him see how much Ammon loved his son Lamoni
and influence both him and many of the Lamanites to come to Christ. These
are two examples of how our Christ Like actions, and our good works can help others
around us gain or strengthen their testimonies. Of course our actions don't
have to be as dramatic as these two stories, but I have a firm testimony that
if we are striving to be Christlike by forgiving others, doing small acts of
kindness, and sharing our testimonies, we can help influence all those who are
around us for the better. I have seen how people's actions can do this many
times on my mission.
Anyways that us all
for now, I love you all and I will talk to you next week (:
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