Well this week has
been pretty Awesome!! Because we had a lot of lessons and found a lot of new investigators
to teach and we also got some of our current investigators to progress and to
help them with some of the things that they are struggling with. It has also
been a sad week because one of my best friends on my mission, Elder Wood, and I
know you asked about him dad and yes we have a special friendship bond that can
never be broken, left Kamloops and is going home on Wednesday so that was kind
of sad but that's the mission life.
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| Will and Elder Wood in their matching suits "Looking Fresh", farewell Elder Wood! |
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It was also really awesome because Elder
Walker, my MTC companion, is in my District and Elder Kelly is the District
Leader so he went on exchanges with Elder Walkers companion and Elder Tolman
and I got to go on exchanges with Elder Walker so we reunited the MTC duo. It
was awesome to be in the field with Elder Walker because he is awesome and I
thought I might never see him in the mission but it was really cool.
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| The Dynamic Duo has been reunited! Elder Walker & Will |
While we were
on exchanges we didn't have a ton of lessons but we did get to have quite a few
member visits and they were so great. We went and visited Ray, who is a YSA in
our ward, and he served a mission in New York City, Chinese speaking. He was
really cool and we taught a really good lesson about the video the church put
out "He is the Gift" and we have been committing all of the members
that we teach to give a Book of Mormon to someone they know this Christmas
season and share with them the same thing that brings them so much joy and
peace.
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| Working out in our apartment |
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| The 'tripanionship' of Will, Tolman and Kelly |
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| One of our trees with our new fireplace, Thanks Mesquite 2nd Ward Relief Society!! |
We also had Zone Meeting on Wednesday and we were told to read the talk
by Elder Holland called "Maybe Christmas Doesn't Come From a Store",
which is crazy because that is the same talk that my Mom sent me 3 weeks ago.
When I read it one thing that he really talks about is how humble the
circumstances that Jesus was born into. Which is something that I have never
really thought about but as I was studying I realized that Jesus could have
been born in to a Kings family and been treated very well and been someone of
great importance and still accomplish the Atonement the same but he was born in
the most humble of circumstance and probably lived the hardest life that anyone
has ever lived so that he would know the pain that everyone goes through in
this life so that no one could say they had it worse than Christ did. He
literally was born in a stable, was a carpenter, was homeless and went through
the Atonement at the Garden of Gethsemane and on the Cross for all of mankind.
There is not one point in Jesus Christ’s life when we can say that he had it
pretty good and that life was easy for him. There is no reason for us to be
prideful and not use the Atonement because he did it all for us. He lived that
life for us. Not for himself because he was perfect and didn't need the
Atonement to live with God again but God and He knew that we couldn't
accomplish it with out that so he volunteered to give his life so that we may
have eternal life. He loved us so much and wanted us to live with him again.
This is something that I never really thought about until I came on a mission
and started to really discover this gospel and what Christ truly did for us.
This time of year is when we should really focus on Christ and what he did for
us and it is a time when we should share it with others who do not know it so
they may feel the same joy and peace that Christ has brought in to our lives.
This is the time to share the true meaning of CHRISTmas and what it is really a
holiday for. So during this Christmas season really reflect on the savior and
all that he has done for us personally and strengthen your personal
relationship with him. This is something that I have really been trying to do
over the last few days and it is something that brought me even more joy in my
life. This Gospel is the thing on this Earth that can bring us the most joy in
this life and this time on earth can be so much more enjoyable if we just put
Christ in our lives and truly rely on him and also to share this with others
even if it is hard. Trust me I know how hard it can be sometimes but if we rely
on Christ we can did it!! Talk to you next week
Love Elder Slack
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