I hope you read that in an impressive Irish accent, as tomorrow is St. Patrick's day.
Speaking
of which, someone gave us Corned Beef and Cabbage the other day so I
got to try that for the first time ever. I also learned that I was very
wrong about what Corned Beef and Cabbage is. I was right about the
cabbage part, it was just cabbage. But for some reason I always imagined
the corned beef as like two separate components, like just chunks of
beef with little kernels of corn in it or something like that. So I was
pleasantly surprised to find out that it was not that at all, because
that always made corned beef and cabbage sound gross. Much to my
surprise though, it was magically delicious!
In
other news, the world is coming to an end if you haven't already heard.
It seems like there's about the same amount of sanity in this world as
there is toilet paper on the shelves of Wal-Mart.
I'm
kidding of course. Although some people may be losing their minds, for
the most part I think people are staying relatively calm. I actually
have no idea about that. I don't watch the news. It's true in St. Johns
at least. We've only had two people we're teaching tell us to not come
over until the coronavirus goes away.
Anyway though, I'm not worried. I'll share with you a scripture:
"...I fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear."
That's
taken out of context and it doesn't necessarily apply to fear of the
coronavirus. But I think it can and either way the principle is the
same. Whatever we might have reason to be afraid of, if we focus on
Jesus Christ and His perfect love, we really do have no reason to fear
anything. I'm grateful for the prophets leading this Church who protect
us and warn us against all kinds of physical and spiritual dangers, and
I'm grateful for them helping direct our focus to the Savior, the one
true source of peace and security no matter what's going on around us.
Hope you all have a good week and that you don't run out of toilet paper!
~Elder Oswald
P.S. Pictures
1. My two weeks supply of food storage
2. Elder Milne on a rope swing
3.
Me trying to be cool like Elder Milne on a rope swing, featuring my
triple chin I didn't know existed until I saw this picture
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