- Elder Baird's #BLESSED Mission: WEEK 32 RICHMOND: Holiness To The Lord, The House Of The Lord

Got to go to the temple twice in one week???

I'd say that's quite blessed!

This week all around was pretty flippin' amazing!

Wednesday we hit up exchanges. I went to Burnaby with Elder Meyer. Colin (he's a YSA member from Van that always hung out with us) visited us and got us each Cadbury Eggs! Shoutout my King! Found a deaf guy. It was pretty cool. Unfortunately I had completely forgotten everything I learned in my one year of ASL. Except Banana. But phones are pretty epic, so it's chill.

Thursday was the big day! After exchanges, we went to a friend's house. They are some people Elder Barnes used to teach, but they made us super good dumpling and wantons. Then it was time. After 3 hours of filling up the font and sitting at church, the moment arrived... 范弟兄 got baptized!!! It was so amazing. It's moments like this that just make this work so worth it. This message truly is a message of joy. Sang happy birthday to Him and it was complete. My boy is a new man. A new brotha in Christ. Shoutout another King!

Finished the night off with some friendly Bible Bashing

Had interviews with Pres. on Friday. Hit up lunch with some other elders. Gotta love it. Had a lesson with Anne and Han弟兄, both are great, and it's great teaching them.

Saturday morning was temple sesh #1. We went with Brother Chen and Vivi. They were both receiving their own endowments, and it was so amazing. The temple is great. Covenants are great. It's all just so great. Had a lesson with Li, and our member brought up W.O.W and bore fire testimony about it. Then had a recent convert lesson with our boi Victor.

Then Sunday. It's kinda crazy how many blessed days you can have in a week. But Visited Chen 妈妈, she's super amazing and still alive! Lets gooooo! Had church, and got a bunch of friends to it. They all loving it! Then the sisters had a bap right after church, so that was amazing. After it, I talked to Li, and he said he wants to be baptized!!! It's set for next Tuesday, but we gonna need to push it back a lil, so we can make sure we can get everything taught. But it's so amazing, since it was fast Sunday and we talked about it the day before, bro said ya, I'm fasting, and am gonna try and stop drinking some stuff. So amazing and a huge miracle! God is working double time on him, and he's changed so much. Then had an epic member meal with a family!

I may use this word a lot...

But it's True...

Blessed!

Monday was a great day. Minus the start...saw a car crash. But everyone was chill. I can add that to the list now. Seen a real life car crash... but uhh.. the rest of the day was just lots of planning. Did math with Annie and Caroline, thank goodness they weren't lil demons. And had a lesson with Wong Guo Ming!!!!!! He's the goat. We finna go to the temple with him here soon.

Tuesday! Temple rd. 2! Lesss Gooooo! It was epic. Also played Ticket to Ride. So no complaining here. Pros hour consisted of lesson, crazy member lore drama drop. and English class.

I guess you could say:

It was a pretty flippin' awesome sauce week!

General Conference was fire!

So let me drop a lil.

This comes from Sister Porters talk.

5 loaves and 2 fishes

It's a story that everyone knows pretty well.

And it's a story that applies to every single person here.

Let's pretend everyone has 5 loaves, and 2 fishes. Now theres a couple thing you can do with said loaves and fishes. Eat them, or try your best to feed a couple out of the 5000+. It's good, you tried your best to help out.

But what did this boy do. He didn't bury his talents. He didn't take it for himself, he didn't even share it with others at the start. Instead, he saw a man. A man he believed in. A man he had faith in. The kid probably had heard the stories, maybe even see it with his own eyes, but he knew this man was a Miracle Worker. So what did he do, he took his 5 loaves and 2 fishes and took them to the miracle worker. He brought them to Jesus.

In the eyes of the the boy, it's nothing compared to the 5000+ hungry people. It's a spec of dust on the ground.

But it's what he had, it's what he'd been given.

So he took it to the Miracle Worker.

And in the eyes of the Miracle Worker. In the eyes of Jesus. It was everything. It's exactly what He needed. It's what He needed to work a miracle.

So now there's a third option. One that surpasses the other 2. With a little faith and belief, we can take our 5 loaves and 2 fishes to the Miracle Worker...and feed the multitude!

God has given us each individual talents and gifts. To us, it may look like a meager offering; heck, it might seem like half a loaf and a 2 week old rotten potato. But in the eyes of the Miracle Worker, it's everything.

Give yourself to the Lord, and because of your faith, because of your effort in trying to help those around you and bless the lives of others, the 5000+ will be fed. (With leftovers included) And you can be a miracle worker to those in need.

Ok Fine 晚安.