This week was a great week for sure. It ended up with me being a little sick, but hey there really isn't anything you can do about that when you are shaking hands constantly, riding nasty city buses, cleaning your church and your house, and so forth. Sounds like fun right??
We had a really good day on Tuesday this week. We had interviews with our mission president and teaching certification with his wife. They were both a lot of fun and I passed both. The fun thing was that it was in our house. They also did a thorough cleaning check, but they couldn't find anything that made them displeased so its alright! My mission president and his wife are super amazing people and really live the council they give me. We had lunch with them after which was really fun and then they also got ice cream. That night we helped one of our members with some English stuff he was working on and he was super grateful! To finish off the night, Elder Skousen and I got some hugs from some drunk doods! Wahoo!
We met with the amazing hong family this week. They were super fun and we had some yummy dinner with them. They also feed us dinner before we share our message. The little boys really like us and the dad does as well. The mom is opening up more and more and we hope to see her start progressing and getting more involved. They rejected our invitation to be baptized this week, but its okay. We are still loving them and we are just trying to help them understand that there already really happy life can be made more happy!
We are still playing soccer every morning with the grandpas in our area! They are super fun and we have started talking more with us. We are slowly trying to introduce them to the gospel, but it is hard. Really looking forward to continuing to build relationships with them that could lead to their lives being changed forever! It was a little miracle for sure when they let us play with them the first time.
Saturday we met a really nice Frenchman who paid for our taxi ride when we both missed the bus. Had a great discussion about the Godhead and what are beliefs are. Super grateful for the good men and women in the world today. Even though he denied our invitation, I am confident he will continue to do good in his life and continue to bless the lives of so many others. We taught some of our ward members English students how to play ultimate Frisbee which was really fun. We invited them to church and 4 of the kids came! They are all pretty young, but their parents let them come to church. We hope to have the parents see how happy there kids are and then also have the interest to come and see for themselves! Such a great opportunity to find and super grateful for member missionary work!
Something that President Nelson counciled the brethren in the session for the priesthood holders was being aware of our appearance and to look like and act like disciples of Christ. I came across the opposite of that in the book of Mormon. 2 Nehpi 13:9 says, "The show of their countenance doth witness against them,". It is so important to have the countenance of Christ! We need to have the spirit which means we need to repent sincerely daily which is the other thing our prophet counciled us to do! It all makes sense! I love the Gospel and I love this Church! Jesus Christ is my Savior and he is yours too.
Elder Meeks
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