Sunday, June 1, 2014

Elder Holland

Hey everybody!

So seeing Elder Holland was pretty much the coolest experience ever. He is such a boss! It was really interesting though, because after shaking all of our hands, he was talking about how much he loves us, and how underneath the tough exterior, he is really just a soft marshmallow with missionaries. And not 10 minutes later, he was almost yelling at us. But it was totally full of love. It was funny though, he didn't raise his voice because he was telling us to be more obedient (because he didn't. He actually said that he felt that we didn't need to be talked to about obedience), he was telling us other stuff. He actually talked a lot about our purpose as missionaries (The purpose in the front of PMG. Pretty much what the 4th article of faith says.). He said he has never done that with missionaries, but he felt like he needed to do that for us... IDK. It was SUPER awesome though. The Spirit was sooo strong there! It was pretty much a mission changing experience. And several missionaries recorded it, so now it's on my mp3 player, so now I can listen to it whenever needed :)

Our mission does what's called an I'm Mormon devotional where 2 recent converts speak about their conversion story. It's super effective to bring investigators and less-actives to them. But for this past one, the Assistants called me up and asked if I could do a musical number. So with a total of probably 5-10 minutes of practice, and with my old Zone Leader playing the ukulele, me and 5 other Elders sang I'm Trying to be Like Jesus. It actually turned out really well! 

So a random little fact: Even though I'm turning 20 in a month, I have been younger than every single one of my 12 companions my whole mission, and there have only been a handful of missionaries in all of my districts that have actually been younger than me. Pretty funny :)

Anyways, that's about all for this week :)

Thanks for reading!
 
 
So the Sisters being Sisters, they colored some peanuts things for the district. It was pretty funny.


 

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