WEEK 50 RICHMOND: The Cheekiest of Side Quests

Bro transfer board will be out by the next time ya'll hear from me...

Like holy moly (I make the best guacamole) ((pull up if you want some)) this transfer blipped. 

You think being twinkled is fast? Just come put my shoes on for 6 weeks. Then you'll know what fast means.

Which means, it's grind time baby!!! This past week was insanely joyful, so we just gotta keep up the effort and work. God is providing :)

Unfortunately, when you're best buds with the APs you hear lots and lots of things. And one of those things is I'm probably not gonna be here next week  But hey, God's plan. "I'll go where you need me to go" is a real statement.

To get started with our weekly drop, we'll head over to Wednesday. 

Super solid day. DC was supa fun as always. Learned a lesson once again - 麦 and 卫 are not allowed to cook pizzas anymore. Had a blessed lesson with Li. We just deep doctrining at this point. We building him up to become super member once he finally gets baptized. Finished the night off with a member meal at Felix and Lulu's house, they are so goated. Their whole family is here and it was a party. Read scriptures with some friends as well.

I  Richmond

Thursday was exchange day. I got to head back to White Rock with Elder Meyer. We got to teach English class, and holy I forgot how much I love that English class. The students are all so fun. Old Chinese people are just the funnest to hangout with! Taught a couple that's on bap date for this upcoming Sunday, they are locked in. So elect. So it'll be pretty hype for them

Friday morning we hit up some service. I think the 3 of us were the only people in the world to lift 10,000 paper bags in the span of an hour. Cheeky side quest. Came back, ate lunch with the 4 of us and unexchanged. We finally got an in-person lesson with li Nan and it was super good. She is lowkey the most elect non-elect person ever. In all ways she is sooo cool, she just won't come to church and we don't know why... Agency I guess... We had a chapel tour later with our new friend Jonny, bro is pretty goated. Had an English/Chinese language study with one of our members. Had a member meal with a goated family. 

Life is good, Life is good. 

Saturday. Doctor core day. We had lesson after lesson lined up. The first was with this guy who I gave a pass-a-long card to and bro actually called back. #neverhappens. So that was an epic miracle. Then Alex. Bro is just so elect. (insert AP exchange) so I had to solo the rest of the lessons...scary. Li, Dom, Michael, and I read scriptures with a few of our friends. Also got destroyed in pingpong. I gotta lock back in. Also hit a cheeky 10pm mpl. Crazy work

Sunday was so good. Church is just the best, and partaking of the sacrament is even better. Taught a fire first hour lesson, and it's just so cool. Our friends are so elect. Got Anne her temple recommend, so we going next week. 

Story of the week:

After church and lunch, we went finding at a park. We were walking, doing our thing, then see this group of 'teenagers' sitting at a table. So we walk towards them, say hi, and bro starts walking towards us. Says "ya'll got like 10 minutes?" and we were like, "we do now" (had to cancel a quick lil thing, but it's chill cus it was worth it). Bro says bet "ya'll wanna witness our wedding?"...

uhhh

First off, my impression of 'teenagers' was pretty off. 

Second, there was 3 of them, and an adult (who was a government person or something) and all dressed in normal clothes.

So we say "sick, let's do it" Sign some documents, and witnessed their wedding! Lets flippin' go! Congrats! Check it off the list! Missions be like.. It was fun, then started talking Chinese to them and they flipped out.

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Side story:

It is so funny how much we get glazed out here for speaking Chinese.

Shoutout gift of tongues.

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We tried to teach them about eternal marriage. But unfortunately no luck. But hey, there wasn't any "till death do you part" in the vows. So maybe that counts for something.

Then finished Sunday off with our Sunday things.

Monday was another day of grind. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much planning. Toooooooooooooooooo much planning. 

Met this super cool couple in the park, then this other lady pulled up because 2 white boys speaking Mandarin and Cantonese. Gave her a BoM, and she's gonna read it, then take it to China and give it to her mom. (Sadly she wouldn't give us her number). Also got the couple's number. So it was pretty epic. 

Got swindled into buying a $1 otter-pop by an 8 year old. 

Did a bap interview for the couple that I taught on exchanges. And scriptured it up. 

Today we spike balled it up! It's been too long since I've been that locked in on the game, so it was good. 

Shoutout New Port! We runnin' that back! 

Glory to God

Alma 27:18 

Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness.

Wanna be happy? Wanna have true joy?

We gotta be humble seekers of it. I love this verse so much. I love the imagery of being a "humble seeker" of happiness. 

I think this is one of the biggest lessons I've learned on my mission. I didn't realize how prideful a person I was until I came out here . Some things in life, you can put your head down and get to work. And you will be successful. You put all confidence in yourself. And that's what I would do for a lot of stuff. 

Then I got out here and realized that that doesn't work, and never will. The only time I can put my head down, is as I'm bowing my head to pray.

But everything else comes from trusting in the Lord. Putting my confidence and effort in Him. Everything I do, everything I have, and everything that happens, is all glory to God! Because of His love.

I've been humbled, and continue to get rid of my pride everyday. As I've done this, I can truly testify that "this is the joy"! This is the exceeding Joy that the atonement of Jesus Christ has to give!

Humility being the first step.

Post spike grub

#slumped

(Sorry bro, I got nothing else this week)