Monday, April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009

throw your hands in the ayyyer and wave them like you just dont cayyyer!

hey family!!!

things are lookin really good here from el golf these days. my new comp, elder Jennings, is a stud and he knows EVERYTHING! i am going to learn so much from his small little buddah like figure this change that i am just super super content right now! he´s already helping me to really teach more effectively and i´m way happy about that. just a quick review of the week i guess..
monday we got here to el golf with all his stuff. bought our groceries and stuff, went to a FHE with a bunch of recent converts which was quite amazing because they brought a friend so we ended up having a lesson with members which is KEY!! unfortunately we´ve been super busy the rest of the week so we haven´t gotten into contact with her again yet but were calling her tomorrow so that will be really good.
tuesday we had lunch with a member and she brought a friend to eat with her so again we had a killer lesson with a member! mom and dad know how important that is because it is one of the ¨key indicators¨ of what we report every night but yeah, it was way awesome, we´ve got a return appointment to teach her again this upcoming thursday and so were quite pleased with that as well, we then went to another lesson with a less active member and her non member husband, can you say ¨lesson with member¨ again! woot woot! that is music to a missionaries ears. anyways after that we went to this guy who weve taught a few times before but we were unsure if we were going to continue teaching him anymore. this is only because he is a little bit crazy. what it is is that he has just had A LOT of experience with other religions, hinduism, budhism, catholisism and the whole lot, he normally wears a white comodo when we teach him and he´s just really different is what i´m trying to get at. every time we go we don´t know what to expect, anyways this last time we were talking about forgiveness and how everyone needs it and he understood the concept of asking forgiveness really well. gosh i don´t know how to explain this without it being really weird so i´m just gonna throw it out there cuz it happened. he had been preparing for like 2 weeks to serve us in a way that he thought was the most appropriate... what ended up happening was that he washed our feet with his own bare hands and was praying to God for forgiveness during the whole thing. i can´t explain the feelings that i had through an email. on the one hand i thought, what the heck is going on here, lets bounce.. and on the other hand the way he was asking God to be forgiven of his sins through service to the Lord´s servants touched me to the core of my being. i realized how humble this man really was, and at the same time how unhumble i am and how much more i need to be willing to serve others. this guy took things a little too literally in my opinion, but in the same sentance i have to say how humbling and eye opening it was to me. it was a really wierd experience and i can promise that it will never happen again because its got to be against some mission rule or something but it was a really heart wrenching experience. the cool part of the story is that we´re going back tomorrow to teach that only through CHRIST can we be truly forgiven but yeah, i dunno, take the story for what you will but it was pretty amazing from my point of view.
well yeah, wednesday through sunday were really good too. we had some investigators at church so that is always nice and actually a real sign of progress but unfortunately i do not have the time to go through all those days right now...
um... yeah, i feel like i haven´t really said anything that will help you guys or any cool spiritual insights cuz this week was really busy and we only studied like 2 times cuz we had a lot of stuff to do but i hope that this little partof my week can help someone gain a bigger perspective on life, somehow. i dunno, i´m really sorry to everyone who reads these emails, i suck at writting general emails to a group of people, hence, my letters are always super boring but yeah, i hope taht everyone is doing really good, i´m lookin forward to talkin to peoples this next sunday, i don´t know who i´m aloud to call yet but hopefully all of you cuz i feel like i could actually explain some of the mission a little better that way over the phone. hey, heres an idea. how about everyone emails me one question of what they´d like to hear about on a daily basis and then i can write emails that are interesting to everyone! then i´m not just writing to write! i think thats a grand idea. also i´m gonna start to look for cool spiritual insights to share every week ok? alrighty, sorry for the weak sauce letter and i promise that with our new format next week we will be able to take over the world (insert evil cackle here) hahahahahahahahaha! alright take care, i love you all!
elder livingstone

1 comment:

Louise said...

Not boring at all - keep it up. That was a very interesting experience and the defining thing would be what was in his heart at the time and it sounds like it was sincere. Carry on - glad you are loving where you are and your companion!! Aunt Louise