HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAMUEL!!! Whoo! I love you, buddy, and hope
you have a wonderful time on your special day.
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| Samuel's Birthday Wishes from Andrea! |
Today was actually a pretty good day, walked around in
abundance, as usual, but we actually were able to find almost everyone we had
planned for and taught some good lessons, so I'm pretty happy about that. The
members here think the elders are better because they have more baptisms, but
since we're working hard even though we don't have many progressing
investigators, I think we're doing fine. Water off a duck's back, nothing more.
But, in other news, we have a mission-wide conference to
listen to Elder Nelson from over in Tegucigalpa
tomorrow in the Benque in SPS, so I'm going home, baby! Whoo! I actually hope
it's hot tomorrow so Hna Rosas can know what it feels like over there, gonna be
a little different from Santa Cruz being so cool. And even here everyone
complains of it being too hot. Kinda fun to listen to. I'm usually thinking "Oh, if only you
knew...", which makes me smile. Aaaaand, I'll see Hna Robles!!! Yay! I
gotta give her her little package from my family and I wrote her a note as
well. I'm excited to see her! Only been 3 weeks, but still. I did call her once
when I got my stomach bug a few Thursdays back, that was weird to hear her
voice on the phone as opposed to in real life. Anyways, that should be pretty
awesome to see everyone again from El Carmen and the office and Pres and Hna
Dester again (even though we just had Multi-zone Conference, it's always fun to
see people, no matter how long it's been!)
And, from personal study, the couple whose house we're
living in has a giant Bible, like, 10 x 12 inches big, extra
large print, and it was lying on the table this morning, so I thought it would
be fun to read through with the font being so huge, so I flipped it open and
started reading in Numbers, and got to chapter 16 where these 3 guys from the
camp of Israel felt like they wanted to rebel against Moses and everyone, so
they got 250 men together, but then the Lord directed Moses to tell all the
people to move their things away from the tents of these 3 guys with all their
men, and then the earth opened up under them, swallowed the 250 men with all
their families and belongings, and buried them alive. Kinda freaked out the
Israelites. Also, the Lord sent a plague among them shortly afterward because
of their continued disobedience and murmurings, and 14,700 more people died
just from that. Makes you realize that the Israelites wandering around in the
wilderness were actually a very, very large group of people, and little
wonder that Moses needed good men to help him keep order. And that the Lord had
to be hard with them because they were a hard people. They had a prophet, the
pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day to guide and manifest the glory of
God, the priesthood, the tabernacle, food, water, everything provided for them,
and they still had such terrible problems with belief that led to a lot of
people dying all over the place. Interesting to think about for a little bit. I
was just surprised mostly at how many people died just in that one chapter.
Crazy. But yeah, other than that it's
been good.
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