Ghost Stories

Hey everyone! Hope you had a great week! Mine was pretty good. We went on an exchange with some of the mandarin speaking Elders and had a blast. We got to play basketball with a bunch of old Chinese men who would just cherry pick and huck up half courters the entire time, it was so funny. 


Every Wednesday there is a ukulele club at the church for all these old people and most of them aren't members of the church so we go and share a spiritual message at the end. But these old people are jamming and it is so fun. Every week so far this guy named Dwight has come up to me and asked me if I knew any ghost stories and I made the mistake of telling him all the ones I knew on the very first time I met him. We went to ukulele club and Dwight came up to me and told me that he had a few Ghost stories to tell me. He then proceeded to tell me all the stories that I told him as if he personally experience all of them. He would tell a story and he would say "And do you know what happened next?" And then I would finish the story and he would be like "yes, that's exactly what happened!" He told me three stories and I did that to him all three times. By the third story he said "Man, how did you know that?" And I just told him "I guess I'm just on fire." You got some characters at the Uke club.


Something that I have been trying to get better at since I have been on my mission is living in the moment. I feel like most of the time life is just so fast paced and we are always looking forward to the next thing wishing our life away. I am very guilty of this. The key to enjoying the moment is simple. It's Jesus Christ. No matter what circumstances you are in, as long as you know that Jesus Christ has suffered died and and paved the way for us to live forever by being resurrected, you can find joy in the moment and enjoy life itself that Jesus Christ has provided for us. One of my favorite names of Jesus Christ is "The Master of Life." Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf said "Life is not meant to be appreciated only in retrospect." Psalm 118:24 says "24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." Jesus Christ has already won the battle and has provided us the opportunity to find joy in the now. As we turn to Him and remember His victory over pain, sorrow, and suffering, we will not only appreciate life in retrospect, but appreciate it now. I know He lives, and He lives for us. Hope everyone has a great week!


Picture
1. Spidey
2. Exchange qith Elder Robbins
3. Got Milk?
4. Exchange with Elder Robbins part 2
5. John on a bunch
6. Jesus picture of the week






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

We're Gonna Need A Bigger Pole

Image
Hey everyone! This week went by quick. Some cool things happened this week where 80 marines showed up to church yesterday and it was such a cool experience to be able to teach so many of them. We also put our friend Francisco, whose a marine, on date for baptism for December 9th. Our friend Isaiah is still solid and is getting baptized this Saturday. He shared with me that sometimes he doesn't want to come to church but he goes anyways, and he feels this peace that he has never felt before and he said that he knows that this church is true.  We usually do our calls and text on the San Clemente Pier, because it right by our apartment, and there are a lot of people fishing off the pier. So one night we were at the pier doing some phone calls and all of a sudden there's this teenaged kid running up and down the pier being drug by his pole. He was screaming for help from the lobster people. He was yelling "Lobster people, help! I've got a huge lobster!" The pole kept ...
Read more

Oh Glory

Image
Hey everyone! Hope your week was good! This week was crazy for me. We took our recent convert Rick to the hospital because he has an infection in his arm and it blew up like a balloon. His arm looked like the Pillsbury dough boy. Also, we found some really cool people who have been able to find out the Book of Mormon is true by themselves! Also yesterday an old friend that hasn't met with the missionaries in a little bit, met with us yesterday and said that she wants to get baptized! Her name is Sherry and her date is October 21st. Overall good week. This week I went on an exchange into a bike area. It is actually pretty fun being on bikes because it's good to get your blood pumping. I also learned how to ride with no hands during the exchange. But we were riding along the street and I stopped to talk to these people and I stepped off my bike pedal to stable myself. What I quickly found out that it was a 6 inch drop off into some bushes. I have started to develope a habit of sa...
Read more

Out Of Place

Image
Hey everyone! Hope your week was great. This week was a blur for me. Halloween came and went pretty fast and now it has already almost been a week. This week we had a halloween party for the YSA ward, we had MLC the day after, and went on an exchange with some Elders that are on bikes but the members gave them Ebikes, so overall pretty good week. Like I said, we had a Halloween party with the YSA ward. We weren't going to dress up, but the Sisters also serving in the ward said that everyone was dressing up and you need to dress up or else you will be lame. So we went to every halloween store near us during our dinner hour frantically searching for a costume to buy. We went to TJ Maxx and found some onesies. I got a Grinch one and my compainion got a minion. We bought them and went over to the church. When we got there I couldn't help but notice that everone else's definition of dressing up was a little different than me. Everyone else was dressed up in regular clothes with ...
Read more