WEEK 40 RICHMOND: Why did the Sun go to School?

To get brighter

Wassgood' Ladies and Gents. I have yet 通过ed another. Crazy how life works like that. But it was super chill.

Wednesday was lit. Final full day for BanBan. We got to hangout with Peter. He's a much goated member from Burnaby. So we played badminton with him (I need to start hitting those badminton training routines and workouts), and then got drinks with him. He also called up Mr. Hu! Me and Elder Meyer taught him in Vancouver for a lil, but bro dipped to China. He was goated, and is much missed. But it was fun to talk with him. Celebrated bros final day with Mickeydeez!! So fire.

Shoutout Roman!

Thanks for the ice cream!

Still breaks a brothers heart though, and a tear to an eye 

Thursday was transfers.

Farewell my friend. 

 

Chilled at the mission office waiting for me new companairo. Lowkey a party hanging out with all the goats though. Elder Thompson arrived and we got to work. Had English class, then 4 hours of service which was insane. But got fried chicken out of it, and met Le'奶奶 Le'Goat! She was so cool. Then Englished it up again at the class.

Met a dope dude on Friday. Who was like, "I'll pull up to English class, and I'll bring my fam to church soon." So he was cool. Almost fell asleep during language study. Rip energy as a missionary. Then met another dope dude. We got 老刘 then 超 (Owen). ((makes total sense)) Then had a lesson with Han 弟兄 which was actually super, super good.

Taught Li the priesthood on Saturday. It was fire. Met this epic 太太 who I saw not once...but twice on the bus the same day. SOOOOO many 叔叔 and 太太‘s in Richmond. They swarm when they hear white boy speaking the Chinese..  But glory to God though, cus gift of tongues is real and clutch and hype. Much grateful! Finally got my suits cleaned!! Fire!! Then pickled the ball in the evening.

Sunday was great. Such a fire two hours. With a total of 0 friends at church  But hey it's chill. Good way to minister to members though. But testimony meeting was actually so good. The branch is blessed. We Chen 妈妈ed in the evening this time, and bro was zonked when we pulled up. We had to wake her up and she was like so so so sorry. Annd I'm like, bro, you are 104 years old, it's chill. She's so cool though. Then buttered some chicken. It was fire!

Monday was good. Lots of planning. Happy meals. Math. And another insane 2.5 hour lesson with Robbie. But we learning and balling. Bro has got some crazy cool potential as a leader in the church. He just needs to understand. "Doctrine Understood changes actions and behaviors". Type beat. But it's good, it's good.

Today was top 1 chillest p-days. We just chilled at the church. Grocery shopped. And family talked. Love em'. Then had English class, and 老刘 and 超 both pulled up. And they are flippin dope.

Man I love being a missionary!

My spiritual thought though is based on the service project we did...

If you look at this picture, you see there is a lot...and I mean A LOT of stuff. The pic doesn't do it justice. And that was taken before we were even finished.

Long story short, this lady was moving to the mini house suite, so she had to get everything from the house and garage outside, so the new people could move in. We helped with that moving process.

Let's just say the lady was a little bit of a hoarder.

While we were doing service, the owner of the house and Le'奶奶 Le'Goat was trying to give us missionaries stuff, and one of our members was taking stuff to donate it. Because 95% of the stuff you see in the picture is brand new and has never been open or used. Just random new stuff.

But at one point, the lady walked out, and saw the stuff being taken away. And she lost it. She was yelling at her mom (her moms Le'奶奶) and yelling at the member. Saying you can't just take it, it's my money. You can't just give it away. 

To make things worse, it was going to rain that night (which it did) and everything was going to get ruined. But the lady just couldn't part with these worldly things. Things she has and will never use.

So I got to thinking. What things in life do we hold so dear, things that make us feel worth, but things that take us away from God. Where does our worth come from? Is it money, material possessions? Fame? Success? Popularity?

Or does it come from the knowledge that we are children of God?

If your answer is yes to that one, that's all that matters. Nothing in this life, or things of the world, will give us really anything in the long term run. But once you come to truly know your true identity, your divine potential, then nothing else matters. We can give up everything we have, to follow God. To lean on the atonement of Jesus Christ. And when we do that, we have Joy! We have Peace! We have Hope! We have Life!

Find what's important. 

And if you want a suggestion

Find the One who gave up everything. Because He knows who you are.

What kind of music do planets sing?

Neptunes 

你是我的小鸭小苹果 (You are my little duck and little apple)

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