เฮลโล Hello!
This week was full of service! The past few weeks it's been hard to find things to do, but this week we had more things than we had time for. It was the best!! Lots of weeding, clearing blackberry bushes, branch breaking, cleaning up an old church building, and that's just the tip of the iceberg! It's been hard to find people to teach, and we didn't have very many lessons, but it's ok! We're going to keep trying!
USE YOUR HEAD
We played lots and lots of takraw this week. We've gotten pretty good. Just me and Elder Stradling beat a team of 3 Thai guys! Was it a fluke? Irrelevant. Stop that. It was so much fun, though. We got to play 3 times this week, and my teammates have learned that if they set me up for a header, it's game over, man. We've been trying extra hard to set up some lessons and we only got to do one with Ted. We tried to get him to accept a Book of Mormon. He's not interested in switching denominations... for now. We're not gonna completely give up there.
GET SOME GRUB
We've had some really good food this week. Some amazing baby back ribs from Brother Foster of the Benson Hill Barbecue Club, more random barbecue with other members, phillipines eggrolls and curry, and even Brother O'Brien buying us some Big Macs. There was a good stretch of days were we didn't even eat at our house. It was the best.
สบายดี (Fine)
We had a barbecue with a few families from around Benson Hill. There's a family in our ward that speaks Lao and since it's close to Thai and I speak a little bit of Esan, I got to have some fun. The youngest girl, like 5 years old, was waiting in line and my companion is trying to "Sawatdee kap" her and shes just looking confused. So I gave her a wai and said "sabaidee" and she gave me the little sabaidee back and did the cute little girl dip and wai and went to get her food. My heartttttt. So cute haha. And her mom talked to me and Elder Stradling in Thai and all of it was just coming back to me. All of my Thai abiliyy to understand and especially speak just came flooding back to me. It was the best. She was like, "how long were you in Thailand?" "3 months" "just 3 months and you already speak Thai this well??" It was a good feeling. Gift of tongues let's go! It's been the first time in a while I've really just felt like a missionary.
UM THAT'S A NO
We cleaned up an old church building in downtown Renton that's been out of use for a long time. The parking lot was covered with leaves, trash, clothes, and even some used needles! Wowza! I'm not saying they're heroin needles. But I'm strongly implying that they are heroin needles. We were careful. And we're all safe and ok. But between that and the piles of poop, it's safe to say that's the sketchiest church building I've ever been to.
HELAMAN 5 IS DOPE
Read it. It's such a cool chapter. I've been trying to think of ways that I can be better. Because if I settle for just being good, I'm not going to get to where God wants me to be. I noticed this week that I'm doing all of the things I'm supposed to do, but I wondered if my heart was really in it. So I wrote on a piece of paper: "Can I Be BETTER?" and pinned it on the wall in front of my desk. And I've been praying and listening for God's voice as I read scriptures. Every time I find a scripture that feels like it's God telling me how to get better, I write down the reference and think about how I can apply it to myself. One of the scriptures I put up was Helaman 5:12. I'm sure a ton of you know this one already,
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
Please remember to build your foundation on the Rock of Christ!!! If your beliefs are centered on Christ, they cannot fall. I'll keep working on it, and you should too.
LAST THINGS LAST
- sand volleyball is fun, but try not to get yourself scratched up on the concrete 6 inches deep.
- best poptart flavor? Other than brown sugar cinnamon, of course. Am I missing out on anything in that area?
- abs are coming.
- we converted Tiffany Park to the pineapple whip. Not that it was hard. If you have not had a Pineapple whip, I plead with you. Drink one now.
- I love good jams, pina colada? Wow! But you know what I love even more? You!
ดาบพิฆาตอสูร (Demon Slayer Sword)
Elder Barrett
The Benson Hill BBQ Club
Some terrifying needles we found!
Baby Bunnies. Heck yeah.
The world's greatest flag.
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