Choir?

Hey everyone!! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!! Mine was awesome! We made some dinner for this lady that we are teaching and made another dinner for this guy we are teaching. I'm pretty much Gordon Ramsey. We then went over to a family in our wards house and had an awesome Thanksgiving dinner. That was probably one of my most productive Thanksgivings.


We also went bowling last P day and man it felt good to hit the lanes again. I love the smell of grease mixed with pizza with a hint of cigarette smoke when you walk into a bowling alley. Other than Thanksgiving and bowling it was a pretty normal week. We had an exchange and did normal missionary work.


On Sunday we were at church for 6 hours and at the end of our last meeting the sister missionaries in our ward begged us to go to ward choir because they needed more people. We thought that we would be nice and sit in. They put me with the tenors and it's literally just me and this other guy. Someone had the bright idea of having just the tenors practice their part. So it's me and this other guy that are singing, and by singing I mean that I'm singing and the other guy is humming. They kept telling me that I needed to sing louder so by the end I'm basically yelling by myself during this practice. I felt like Elf singing in the store. Let's just say that was the first and last time I'm doing ward choir.


The spiritual thought this week came from one of my favorite movies....Batman Begins. At the end of the movie Gotham is in shambles and Bruce Wayne doesn't know what to do. Wise old Alfred says to him "Why do we fall?" And then he says "So we can learn to pick ourselves back up." In Romans 5:3-5 is says 
   "3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
   4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
   5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."
 The hard times has the potential to grow your relationship with Jesus Christ if you have the desire. I know that as we go through hard things it makes us learn how to pick ourselves back up.
Hope you all have a great week!!! Until next week!


Pictures
1.oh what fun!
2.finding with Isaiah
3.hitting the lanes
4.very low quality tag pic with a sunset that the Samsung camera can't pick up



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