Hola!
Hope you all had another awesome week! Mine was pretty darn average (on the scale of missionary life, so quite high on the normal life scale). Nothing crazy good or bad, sorry, haha. Father's Day happened, and that was pretty neat! It was kinda sad to not be able to really do anything for my dad, but I hope all of the Father's reading this know that they are loved, appreciated, and awesome! Esspcially you Dad! Love Ya! But, other than that...I'll just get into the other things and hope I remember something interesting to fill the entertainment void I have created.
We didn't have a ton of oppurtunities to meet with our friends, but they are all still doing well! Nothing really to report on in that front, but we did meet a good chunk of new people this week, so that was really cool! We met a guy named Eddy who is looking to retire then go do humanitarian missions for the rest of his life, so he's neat-o. We met a guy named Kiko from Mexico. He's got a few kids, and was honestly interested in what we had to say as son as we mentioned our message is focused on blessing families. We also met this lady named Olga. She was baptized around 20 years ago (she was 23), but has since moved to Florida, and become inactive in the church. She was scrolling through Facebook and saw an ad with some scriptures, she said she had a very strong spiritual experience when reading it, and had to have it. She only found out when she ordered a free copy that it was a Book of Mormon, and she explained to us that she remembered all of the incredible feelings she had when she went to church, and now wants it for her kids (ages 16-23)!
Gah! I'm sorry, it was just a good plain week. The only thing I could think of that may be interesting to y'all was that the sister missionaries in the area just north of ours have been teaching a Jamaican woman and her son, and they realized that the son was kinda hitting on them (for those unaware, we can't date or anything like that on our missions...and hes like 15 years older then them [they 20, he 35]). So they asked us to see if he would be willing to be taught by us instead, we extended it, and he just simply said "nice to meet ya, but I'd rather keep talking to the other ones, I really like one of them". So, long story short, we are going over tonight to their lesson and going to see if we can teach them instead, haha.
I hope that little story will hold y'all off for another week. It's quite interesting. when I think of it, how normal missionary life is to me ight now. It is so incredibly different from anything else, and yet, I've grown to call a week as a missionary "average". I think that this idea that we can start to come to think of such extraordinary things as ordinary should be watched carefully for those of us who follow Christ. I have seen it so many times, people start to act like prayer, scriptures, church, the priesthood, etc. are just normal things that we have. While things like this are certainly abundant and "free", they are anything but normal. Prayer is the power to converse directly with the most powerful being in the universe. Scriptures are basically a perfect user manual for this life. Church is a perfectly organized group of people all trying to accomplish the same things we are. The priesthood is literally the power of GOD. Don't take these things lightly. Everything we have been given in relationship to Christ is nothing short of a miracle. Please, never forget that. I love you all, and I will try my best to improve my next email! haha, have an awesome week, LOVE Y'ALL!!!
(FOM=Florida Orland Mission, took the picture with a member's quadcopter)
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