Happy Pi Day!
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| That’s right, Hermana Nelson and I are on the selfie train now (we normally just take pictures of food) |
I can probably say this about every week I’ve ever been in Xela, but wow! This was such a good week! Being a missionary is so fun, especially when you’re being a missionary with Hermana Nelson. This woman is such an icon, and I love her so much. Are we sure I can’t finish her training? Just for kicks and giggles.
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| You’ve got to love a selfie with a cityscape |
Honestly, the thing making me most excited to go home right now is hearing the alarm clock every morning and knowing that soon I’ll be able to put it on snooze. Other than that, I really feel like I could convert to an elder’s length of service. Which is something I never thought I’d say. But I think the universe is trying to see me out the door. Let me explain what happened yesterday.
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| The distrito having a night on the town … |
So we stopped by the Boj Family Sunday Lunch, and when we entered their house, their villain of a dog bit me in the butt! Looks like someone misunderstood a common idiom. Anyway, he didn’t actually bite me hard enough so that he ruined my dress or shed blood. But it still hurt!
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| … to celebrate Elder Alvarado’s birthday … |
Besides being harassed by a chihuahua, we taught some great lessons, and we had one of the coolest finding experiences of my life. Basically, before lunch on Saturday, we were talking to people on the street, and we got to this one older guy just sitting on the curb. Pretty prime street contacting material, if you ask me. So we started a conversation, explained that we were missionaries, and said that if he wasn’t able to talk, we could schedule another time to share something. And then he said, “Oh, my ride’s not coming for a while. I’ve got time.” So we shared the first part of the message of the restoration, expecting him to need to leave after that, but he told us to keep going, and we just taught lesson one on the side of the road and got someone reading from the Book of Mormon before walking down the street to lunch.
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| … complete with party hats |
I’m pretty sure most of you know Doctrine and Covenants 18, where it says:
15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
But the next verse is also an absolute treasure:
16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!
When I first read these verses on my mission, I thought that souls could only be brought unto God when they were baptized. But that is completely untrue! Baptism is just one of many ways a soul is brought unto God, and the truth is that I have barely scratched the surface of those millions of acts we can do to achieve that result. And it has brought me great joy! Nothing will ever come close to the feeling you get from sharing the gospel with someone else and seeing how happy it makes them. Even if it’s only for a moment. Because the joy I receive from that is so eternal. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’d even let a dog bite me in the butt (but only barely). Because it’s worth it.
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