What's up y'all. It's crazy that it's Monday again already. It's been the
longest and shortest week of the mission. Ms. Dixon was baptized last
week, and it feels like at least 3 months ago, but that wouldn't make
sense because I've barely been out for 3 months. This week has been
pretty good. We've been getting a pretty good amount of stuff done.
We've kinda been going all over the place trying to make sure Elder
Stone has everything he needs before he goes home, as well as our usual
proselyting endeavors. It's crazy to think that he gets to hug his mom
in 8 days from now. Only 21 more months
.
He's also going home 2 weeks before the transfer ends, since we have a
7 week one for some reason. So I might be getting a new area in the
foreseeable future.
Anyways,
we've been getting a lot of new friends recently, and this week has been
a lot of finding out who actually wants to learn and progress compared
to who wants to hear about Jesus. It's kinda hard to determine the 2
since the whole country of Jamaica is very Christian. Every one you talk
to always has something to say about praising God for waking up in the
morning and for life. Imagine how strong the church would be here if all
these people would commit to the full truth of the gospel!!
Highlights:
• Eating KFC and watching the sunset
• Watching the sunsets in general
• Angry Rastas yelling at us for not being very good examples of Christ for trying to meet with our boy Jimmy.
• Buying cheesecake
• Buying new ties
• Easter naps
• Sudoku (shoutout to my fav lifeguard back home for the book, you know who you are)
• Elder Stone's last weekly planning
• District P-day
Spiritual thought:
Grace
has been a topic around the apartment lately. Elder Stone was supposed
to talk about it yesterday in church so he's been practicing his talk
for a couple of days now. That along with Easter, makes it a good topic
to talk about this week.
Grace
is given to us, whether we want it or not. Christ paid the full price
of our sins, so that we could return back to live with and like our
Heavenly Father. Because of this ultimate sacrifice, the LEAST that we
can do is TRY our BEST to follow the commandments that he has given us.
Notice how I used the word "try". We aren't perfect human beings like He
is. We aren't expected to be perfect every second of every day. We are
expected to try our best. Brad Wilcox said it best. I'm too lazy to copy
and paste the quote but he said something along the lines of judgment
day isn't going to be Christ checking things off a list on a clipboard
to see if we are worthy to live with Him while we're begging him to be
accepted into his presence. It's probably gonna be closer to Him begging
us to stay with him, but we won't want to live with Him because we'll
feel too unworthy and unclean to live with Him. I'm so very grateful for
the grace that He has given me in my life. I've messed up. A lot. Every time I mess up, He is always there to pick me back up when I'm
down. I promise that has you look towards Him, He will be there ready
to help. He's always there, you just have to look
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