{Letter #10} Somersaults of Joy
Hi everyone!! I hope y'all are doing well! This week in Boring has been pretty boring ;) but there were definitely some fun parts (and some beautiful parts).
So first off, last Wednesday we were going about our day like usual. just after lunch an inactive member that we hadn't been able to get in contact with at all since I have arrived gave us a call! He wanted help moving a double glass patio door from the front of his house to the patio. It was a pretty heavy door. Thankfully Elder Jensen and I successfully carried it around their house and through the blackberries without the door breaking. After we finished carrying the door around to the back, he invited us in to share a message with him! The lesson went pretty well! At the end of it he handed me and Elder Jensen both a large chunk of pumice to take home with us. I'm still not entirely sure why, but now I have a pretty big rock that floats.
On Thursday not much happened during the day. That night we had mutual! It was a pizza cook-off between the young men and young women. The young women had better crust but the young men had better toppings, so it was kinda a tossup with who officially won that. After the cook-off they had a General Conference Jeopardy. They put me and Elder Jensen on different teams, but my team won with the final jeopardy question.
Friday. Nothing much happened Friday, but it did finally start raining. It poured pretty much the entire day and I was very grateful I was in a car and not on bike. We did have 2 lessons back to back with former mission presidents though. It was cool to hear their insights on the lesson that we had prepared.
Saturday was good! We had a few lessons with some less active members and we invited them to church the next day. They actually ended up coming which is exciting! We also had dinner with Bishop Miller and his family on Saturday. They made really good barbecue chicken. at the end of the lesson with their family the bishop challenged us to do 100 pushups a day and send him a spiritual thought when we finished each day. We accepted; Elder Jensen is regretting it though.
On Monday we didn't have too much going on. We sat down and calculated exactly how much of each ingredient we would need to fill all the root beer bottles we got. It took a surprising amount of calculations. But we did figure it out and will be making root beer today.
Yeah so that's pretty much my exciting life adventures here in Boring, Oregon!
"I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith"
I have been thinking a lot about this verse lately. Blessings come after we show faith. Our belief that good things will come will lead to us to acting in faith. When we pray we must believe that God hears us; when we study we must believe that the scriptures do hold answers to our prayers; and when we repent and turn to Christ we must believe that because of His Atonement we can be forgiven. Faith is an essential role in drawing closer to Christ. My invitation for you this week is to read Alma 32 and think of how you can act in faith more in your life. I know that blessings will come as you do so.
Love,
Elder Goold
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