okay well I hope life is GREAT for everyone. Life is cool as a missionary
and a bit stressful but also cool! This week we have been a bit stressed with
our investigators because it turns out that EVERYONE IN SAN LUIS (okay like 76
percent) IS LIVING IN OPEN UNION (i totally forget how you say it in english,
that one thing where they live together but they are too sissy to get married)
AND/OR TOTALLY DROPPING THE BALL WITH THE LAW OF CHASTITY but its like okay. its
part of the job. This week we had some appointments that were very straight
forward with some of our people that have craaaaaaazy excellent potential to be
stellar members and leaders in the church (whether they are investigators or
members who are less-active or inactive) and can totally get so many blessings
in their lives but are throwing it away because they can´t make firm decisions
in their lives. LEARN HOW TO MAKE FIRM DECISIONS, PEOPLE. I promise with all my
heart that you will find blessings in your life when you learn how to make a
firm decision (obviously searching God´s help) and STICK TO IT. Seriously, yo.
I´m not lying.
But anyway,
FUN FACTS FROM MY WEEK:
- I totally learned how to play violin kinda not really. I started playing
a bit and it was really fun but super hard, I think if I throw my whole life
away for awhile I can actually get maybe goodish and make a really mediocre life
out of it. Yeahhhhhhhh probs not.
- We were teaching a fam and we asked them if they remembered any of the
Ten Commandments. This 10 year-old kid piped up and goes, "Ooooo Oooo I know!
Thou shalt not rob in vain." It was sooooooooooooooooooo funny. (For all of you
that was probably just like a tiny bit funny, but as a missionary, we live on
jokes like these. They carry us in our hard times. It´s like when you have your
nerd thing in your life and there are things that are so funny for you but
nobody understands.)
- WE HAD ANOTHER SUPER P-DAY (when a bajillion of us missionaries get
together and play sports all morning and then have a conference with president
and they are WONDERFUL)
- Colombia cualified for the World Cup this week!!! (bad news: fast and
testimony meeting was full of people testifying of the Colombian team and all
this apostasy like that. BUMMER)
Soooooooooo my comp and I were having this appointment with a lady the
other day that turned her life around, came back to church, was being awesome,
and then started to turn back to some old vices of hers. It is a huuuuuuge
bummer for us because she is really cool and a super good example in her family
but right now is totally dropping the ball. So. We decided to talk a bit about a
story from the Bible with her. Remember that one time that God sent angels to
take out the city of Sodom and Gummorah (totally forget how to spell that in
English) and Lot and his family peaced out running? Remember what commandment
they got when leaving? DON´T LOOK BACK. Remember what Lot´s wife did? She LOOKED
BACK. Remember what happened to her? yeahhhhhhh. SO. Let´s learn a lesson. When
we turn from sin, when we decide to really makea change in our lives for
the better, let´s do the right thing and NOT LOOK BACK. We all know how hard it
is to turn down an old temptation when it comes our way again. So instead of
making things hard, let´s just avoid the temptation and NOT LOOK BACK and KEEP
MOVING FORWARD (props to all of you who recognize that movie reference). That is
my invitation of the week. Turn from the things that are holding you back, even
if it´s just one thing at a time, and don´t look back. How does that sound,
alright? It´s the real deal guys, just put forth a little more effort and stuff
gets a lot better.
Welllllllllllll I gotta go. But I LOVE YOU ALLLL and I hope your lives are
just dandy right now. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK :)
FROMMMMMmmmmmmmm
Elder Prattttttttttttttttttt
PS the movie reference was from Meeting the Robinsons
PPS I totally passed my 8 month mark this past week. A third of the mission
has passed me by. WOahhhhhhhhh it goes fast these
days.
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