Tuesday, January 20 2015

this week was a really fast week. to start it off we had a great zone confrence! elder michael jonh Teh from the quorum of the 70 came and spoke to us, it was a really spiritual experience. he talked to us about how we can become exact obedient missionaries and about how we need to be guided by the spirit and always have an inspired question throught the day. so going into the meeting i was wondering how i can be as great a missionary as ammon and how i can use the spirit to discern what i actually need to say when teaching a lesson. and about one of the first things he said was that up untill the point when ammon was cutting off the arms and stuff we were all missionaries like ammon. he explained how ammon and the sons of mosiah had left everything to go teach the gospel, even though the sons of mosiah could have been kings and rulers over the land. he then asked us what we all left behind and, at least for me, i didnt give up being a ruler over the land but there definetley was some things i did not want to leave! but it was a really neat experience to see how i can relate myself to ammon. and after he explained how even after ammon got to the field he was offered to be a king over the land many times and instead of agreeing he was jsut like "no, i want to serve you" and i thought that was really cool. i know that i havent been out that long but i do beleive that everyone on their mission will be offered something that they would really want, and when that gets offered to me i want to have a reaction like ammon. funny story about where we live haha. elder joubert and i were doing weekly planning on thursday and every weekly planning we try and get something special like a treat or somethign like that. so this week we decided that we wanted to order a pizza from pizza hut. so we call the lady and she askes for out address and we said it was along blvd de province, and as soon as we said that the lady said sorry we dont deliver there after 3:30!! thats when you know you live in the ghetto. haha anyways on friday we had a really neat experience! so elder joubert had to give a talk on sunday and so we decided to go to the library to print out some talks about the plan of salvation to study, and we got there at like 5:30, and the library closed at six so all the computers were shut off. so that was a no go. so then we decided to just go knock some doors and say hi to the old investigators. and while we were knocking doors we met this guy from honduras (lots of people from honduras here) his name was Rojer. we told him at the door that since there is only one god there should only be one church and we was like super down for it. then he told us that he wanted to get baptized into our church and so we asked him if we can teach him. so he lets us in and we teach the restoration and he was believing everything we told him! we were talking about baptism by someone holding the proper authority of god and he was like, yeah if you arent baptised by someone holding the priesthood its just like you are only taking a bath! so the lesson goes great and everything was awesome and then we invited him to be baptized and he was like " I would love to, but i need to come to church and meet the members and learn more about your church" so that was a really neat experience and we had a lot of fun getting to know him. he was telling us about how he lives and he seriously lives like all the comandments. haha but saturday was a whole different day. after friday we were on like a missionary high haha, we went to bishop storehouse again and it was fun, then a lady from the denham springs stake shared us an experience about how here daughter is in mississipi getting lessons from the missionaries and so she thanked us all for the work that we do. basically the day was a good day until we had our lesson with walter and alma. i wouldnt say it was a bad lesson but it did not go the way we wanted it to go. so we get there and they made us food and it was pretty good, we had a good time talking while we eating. we then started the lesson and shared a video called "together forever" which is about marriage because we really need them to get married. so after the video was over we tried to commit them to get their marriage license and that didnt work haha. just so many excuses as to why they couldnt get married and elder joubert was just like "you guys have a child. thats the biggest reason as to why you guys should get married." so after that we just asked if they could pray about it and read the scriptures together. thats basically it nothing else really happened. i do like riding around baton rouge, so many nice cars haha. i cant go one day without seeing a new corvette now! ill talk to you guys next week, love you