Goodbyes and returns

 What the heck. This has been a crazy week. I said goodbye to my father, and crazy stuff is happening, but I'll get to that later.

This week was a lot of helping Elder Stone prepare to go home. We didn't do as much missionary work as we probably should've, but I've repented and I can promise that this next upcoming week is going to be a grind. I'm definitely super excited to get to work. 

Elder Stone gave a fire farewell talk and departing testimony in the weekly Mission Devo, and his last District council. He got a little teary eyed all 3 times, and I'll admit, he got me a little choked up during his talk and his departing testimony. During the district council, he almost got all of us in the district crying like I was in the mtc again, but we don't need to bring that up. He gave a training about bearing testimonies and had all of us, including President bear our testimonies. It was super powerful and I'm super grateful for the opportunity to have witnessed it. I'm definitely going to miss Elder Stone and I hope the best for him in the real world. 

Now for the crazy stuff. We found out that the Elder that left Portmore last transfer is getting emergency transferred to come back to Portmore again, and be comps with me for the next 2 weeks before the transfer ends, and he'll be the new district leader to replace Elder Stone. So I'm super hyped for the next 2 weeks, and I'm excited to see what happens when the next transfer starts. 

Highlights:
•drives and vibes
•game nights
•getting the bottom bunk

Spiritual Thought: 
This week's message is going to be on Charity. An invitation given to us recently was to pray to charity in every single prayer we say throughout the day. As missionaries we say a lot more prayers than I ever did back home, and originally I thought it was a little weird to pray for charity over my peanut butter toast, but nonetheless I did it, and Wow. The differences I've seen in the last week or so have been crazy. Before I started doing this I would get frustrated easily with the little things like waking up, a comment someone said, being ignored in public, etc. However I've started to see a difference in how I view the world, and starting to see it more as Christ would when he walked the Earth. The worth of souls is great in his eyes, and we have to treat everyone has so. I bear witness that Jesus Christ loves each and every single one of us. He knows our situations, and prepares us for what we're going through. I know He can help us in our daily life and daily doings, and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

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