SECOND WEEK Weston 11/5/2015

Fun Week! 

This week was the first time we had a consistent missionary schedule and we weren't running around to meetings and orientations on "How to live without Mom and Dad" basically. Anyways, I'm glad that's over with! But Friday and Saturday were pretty basic! We did "dress up" for Halloween! Well.. the best we could but I'll send a pic of my district!

              ~Dressed up like Halloween Pumpkins for Halloween~

And we didn't know for fast Sunday that they shut down the cafeteria for dinner on Saturday night to start everyone's fast! So I was all ready to eat and was promptly told that it was fast Sunday! Wasn't a problem though! like I said in my farewell talk, when you fast with a purpose, you do not get hungry!         

On Sundays we have devotionals as the entire CCM (mtc) gathers in the auditorium. This past Sunday we listened to a talk given by Jefferey R. Holland and let me just say that I've never had a talk impact me like this one has. It was a video recording of him speaking several years back at the Provo MTC to all the missionaries there! He spoke about missionary work and an experience that happened in his mission.

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 I'll briefly summarize the story for you but I highly suggest you to look it up and watch it for yourself! There were two missionaries who knocked on an older woman´s door and she immediately slammed the door in their face. This is where Jefferey R. Holland says to stay persistent, and to get a foot in the door. They knocked again and she said, "You're ministers of God right?" they said "yes" and she said "well then, I don't want anything to do with you" as she went to slam the door the young missionary who could barely speak the language got a foot in the door and he said " why not?". She then said "if god truly loves us all then how come he took my daughter?" that young missionary with hardly any knowledge of the language asked, "do you want to know where your daughter is?" she promptly said, "I'd give anything to know where my daughter is". And that young missionary read out of Moroni ch. 8... At this time Jefferey R Holland didn't recite any scriptures out of that chapter and neither will I but I will say this, that is now one of my favorite chapters in The Book of Mormon. I have found answers in that chapter to most of my investigators questions and worries. Later in his talk he tells the story of when Jesus appeared to peter and the other apostles and says, "forget your nets, forget your boats, and feed my sheep!" Basically saying forget everything you "miss" back home and GET TO WORK!

(Found a copy of the video)_____________________________________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCYJF9mrD0

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Its really hard to explain the power of this talk with the amount of time I have. You seriously need to find time to watch this talk for yourself. I couldn't tell you how long it is but I can tell you that it is worth it! Some of the teachers here at the CCM (mtc) told me that they are all accessible on a website somewhere.

Anyways that kicked off my week really well and my Spanish has just kept on improving! We play "Cage Soccer" with the Latinos here. Its a basketball court with a fence around it with two small goals at each end of the court. They are so good and I'm just the gringo who has a weirdly good Mexican accent. That´s the best place to practice your Spanish. That being said there are few better feelings then making people laugh in Spanish! I've also picked up ultimate Frisbee fairly quick, I think all that time in disc golf my senior year is starting to pay off!

Please send pictures! I love seeing what's going on back home! I love and miss you all so much! But I've gotta go feed some sheep!!:)

"Encarnacioooooooo!" ~Nacho Libre