So another week has passed in the mission, and so I therefore imagine another week has passed for you all as well.
So
things are going really well here in Paradise Valley. We haven't found a
ton of new people to teach, we've just been working with those we are
teaching. We have a few people on date for baptism who we're working
with. The trick is just getting appointments with people and having
people forget/get sick/get lice/get called into work. It's been going
pretty well though.
We also got to do some service for an
older gentlemen on Saturday. We pretty much did whatever random jobs he
needed us to do. One of them was finding his missing potato so that was
an adventure. We never actually found it by the way, so that was really
disappointing.
Seriously though the stories you get to share
from being on a mission are wild. Like last night we were driving
through some side streets and we stop at a stop sign, as one does, and
we see, I kid you not, a small train with a smiley face on the front of
the engine doing donuts in the street. There was a man driving it and it
looked like it was his kids in the passenger cars. It was so weird. It
didn't even seem real, it was like something out of a dream.
But
yeah the mission really exposes you to a lot of new experiences, like
daily exercise and cactuses. Or cacti if you want to be politically
correct.
But yeah so it's a lot of fun with the
Spanish speaking Elders in our apartment. During study time, when
they're doing their language study, we just hear from the other room a
lot of yelling in Spanish. Every day. The newest development
is that one of the Elders just got sent the Spanish version of the
soundtrack of the Disney movie Coco today. Because fun fact, that movie
is actually approved for us to watch. So that's all we've been listening
to today. It's definitely not going to get old. Not gonna lie, there's
some great music on there.
So
Thanksgiving happened! That was a lot of fun. We unfortunately are not
allowed to knock on people's doors unannounced on that day for some
reason though. I guess people have "families" or something and we need
to have "common courtesy" or whatever that means. For some similar
reason no one wanted to have lessons with us either. I kid.
But it did make for a less productive day. We just had some
extra study time that day. We also went to the Flag football game that a
bunch of people from the Wards did and we had the pleasure of
participating in that. So that was a lot of fun for me to run around a
field aimlessly for two and a half hours. I did catch the ball every
time it was thrown to me though. It was also thrown to me once.
Then
we were invited over to a members house for Thanksgiving dinner which
was really nice of them. Then after that we went to another members
house who invited us over for more pie. So that was also nice.
Now
it's time for the Quote of the Week, the part of my weekly email that I
have always done, and that I definitely did not just make up right now. So
here's a really cool quote from C.S. Lewis: "No amount of falls will
really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of
course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home.
But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean
clothes in the airing cupboards. The only fatal thing is to lose one's
temper and give it up."
This is what I love so much about the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. That God has made it possible for us, through
His Son Jesus Christ, to be redeemed from our mistakes, so we can
eventually live forever as families in His presence.
I
personally love my family a lot. And the knowledge that I can spend
eternity with them fills me with so much joy. And I want others to be
able to feel that as well.
And that's why I'm here in Arizona. To spread the joy of this message.
Thank you all so much for the emails, love, prayers, support, and varying degrees of affection that you may or may not have.
Have another great week my friends, til next time!
~Elder Oswald
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