So it was a good week. I've hit a new low today though. I washed my whites with my colors due to mostly a lack of time and a lack of clean clothes but also due to a little bit of laziness.
So I'm a little
ashamed of that. I also ate Zebra cakes and cookies and milk for
breakfast this morning. I'm not at all ashamed of that though.
So
I think I've said before that one of the wards we cover is called the
Salem ward. And things are good, but in terms of teaching people, Salem
has been the more difficult of our wards to find people to teach and to
actually schedule appointments with the people we do have to teach. And
so hence the title of the email. I've just always wanted to make that
reference ever since I've been in this area. So there you have it.
Things
have been really good though. A lady named Carly who's an
ex-pharmacist, who said she'd never come to church because she "knows
everyone's secrets", came to Church yesterday so that was cool.
And
Saturday was a busy day. There was a funeral for someone in town and
that brought the whole town together because everyone knew this family
and it was a young person who died pretty tragically. So it was pretty
sad in that way. And we went to that to support them and everything. And
so that got me thinking about death and stuff and then that got me on
some pointless thought tangents like "what would happen if I just died
right now" or like while sitting on the toilet, "that would be super
awkward if I died right now." They weren't the best trains of thought.
Anyway, it wasn't like a super depressing funeral or anything because it
all tied into God's plan of happiness. But you know death was still on
my mind and what not.
But then later in the
afternoon, we had Sarah's baptism. And that was a much much happier
occasion. But I was kind of thinking about what baptism is symbolic of.
As we go down under the water, that represents death, being buried in
the water. And then we come back up out of the water, and that
represents the Resurrection when we will all rise again. And there's a
spiritual side of that as well. Not only does it represent the physical
death and Resurrection, but it represents the death of our old lives
(spiritually speaking) and the spiritual rebirth we experience when we
are baptized and commit to follow Jesus Christ throughout our lives. So
anyway, it was some nice closure with the funeral and then the baptism
later. It seems kinda poetic. But it does bring a lot of hope to know
that Jesus Christ has overcome death and He has made it possible to be
spiritually born again and made clean as we live His Gospel.
Til I email again,
~Elder Oswald
P.S.- Pictures
1. Cleaning a burned down house-- it was lit
Plus a few more picture which were sent over Messenger:
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