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So tons of stuff happened this week, it was way good, we didnt write yesterday because we had a special meeting with Elder L. Tom Perry in San Diego. We had to wake up earlier and we were gone pretty much all day because we are so far from San Diego. It was Way cool though, super good meeting, it felt wierd to be back in the City though haha. So yeah Elder Perry came and he gave a good talk, pretty much learned that we got to step it up a notch and Work harder. He is a really funny guy too man, he was cracking a couple jokes here and there. it was way good. So that's what we had yesterday.
Okay well anyways this past week we taught a ton of people it seemed like. Some super funny lessons too. Well anyways i'll tell you what happened with one our investigators Chris, so we were reading with him in Alma 32, talking about Faith and experimentando (sorry forgot how to spell it in english) the word. SO we stop every other verse and just explain and talk about it and then we get to this one part, where it talks about how you will feel if it is a good seed, and it said yea and your breast shall swell, so he says "oh ok so like well in this case if you have breast that you know it will get bigger." then i looked at my companion and he is just laughing so hard, and i just put my head in my hands...like ah man. But then i thought shoot thats how i was because i always thought that bosom meant your butt, so all those years thinking i would feel the spirit in my butt. So i can't say anything, but i thought you know what? That's why we have the Prophet to lead us and help us understand the scriptures. haha
Oh and another story, this past Sunday we were visiting this guy, his name is Gerardo and he is way smart, and he is a good guy too. We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and especially about Baptism, and he understood it all, that was a first for me at least. Because he was Catholic and the Catholics always say well i have been baptized when i was a baby. They just never understand that first its remission of sins and you don't have any sins as a baby except for disrespecting your parents by making them clean your poopy all the time, nah just kidding. Well anyways so we teach Gerardo and he just flat out oh man so my baptism didnt count, and i need to get baptized and we told him, well yup thats right. So he accepted a date for the 22nd of May, so I am definitely stoked for that one. I just wanted to celebrate that someone understood and was willing to Follow Jesus Christ for once.
That's another thing i was thinking about recently, how can we follow Jesus Christ because it seems like before i always thought of Church different from life, just like ah you know there is sports, school, eating, surfing, fun, then there is Church. I always thought that and its completely wrong. Church is the way we Follow God, and thats why we have our life, we are here for God, we came from God and now we are trying to get back to him, and if we pull ourselves away from church, then we are surely pulling ourselves away from God and when that happens, we are wasting time. That's what i have really been thinking about lately. It is just tough thats way, the world teaches that faith is useless and dumb. Yet all the world has to offer is instant gratification and nothing that lasts longer than a little time. It is hard to follow God because it requires faith, it requires patience and long-suffering in a time where we can not always see the end or the reward or the blessings. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean that it isn't there because it is there. It's like we are in this dark hall and at the end is Heaven and we can't see that end door at the end of the hall, but there are alot of doors along the way and we get tired and just want to take one of those and rest, but if we do we will never make it to that end of the hall. We always have to follow God no matter what. I learned that this past week, even though things are hard and we can't see any blessings, we got to keep working, thats what we did this week, and we saw a ton of blessings. It was awesome, and worth it too.
Oh and we taught english Class today to Juanita and Isabel, they are awesome, Juanita last week read the Book of Mormon up to 1 Nephi 18, we were so happy that she read all that. So sweet, they are going to know for sure that it is true, they really have a sincere desire to follow God, its true too that God prepares people to hear the gospel. For real kus they are prepared. Its funny too because we talked with the neighbor who gave us the referral to teach them english, she said they were looking for small ways to share the gospel and we told her how interesed they are and she acted all surprised, so sometimes even we may not think people are prepared but they really are, we just always got to share it with everyone we can.
Well thats it for this week, hope you guys have a good rest of the week. Love you!
Elder Thomas
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