Bueeeeeenos días, que onda
Well this week will be one to remember for Sure! The
highlight was we had E. Klebingot from the 70 come to tour our mission. He's
from Germany originally and a convert. We had zone conferences with him and
then MLC and it was probably one of my favorite experiences of my life! He is
kinda notorious for being direct and not messing around, which is exactly what
our mission needs. Some awesome stuff he talked about was the gathering of
Israel, premortal life, covenants, and exaltation, scripture study, temptation,
Memorization, commandments, and so much more. Talking about it with E. Jones,
we both felt just completely rebuked by the spirit for a lot of stuff, and it
was the best haha. In all seriousness though, he taught a lot of things that
I'll never forget. One of them is the importance of meaningfil scripture study.
I've read the scriptures all throughout my mission, but after seeing how he
could USE the scriptures and how much authority it gave him, I definitely felt
the need to step it up and make my study more meaningful.
He also left us a promise that he said applies to
Everyone.
"If you give God your best time of the day every day
(not 5 minutes in the bathroom or something lame like that) for meaningful
scripture study, the adversary will not be able to touch you. On the other
hand, if you don't have meaningful study every day, you will eventually fall
into spiritual spiritual ignorance and be susceptible to inactivity in the
church." It was a bold message that I think most of us needed to
hear.
He taught us a super cool method for memorizing scripture
references super effectively using "mind palaces" I've already
memorized like nine in 2 days and used them while proselyting!
Other stuff that happened we FINALLY had a lesson with Tom
and Grace. It was really good and they committed to start reading the BoM. The
member they live with has come in clutch with a ton of stuff like setting up
that lesson and showing them church videos all the time.
We met with Lel and talked for a bit and we eventually got
on the topic of family history and it turns out he was pretty interested in
that! He's my age too so it was cool to see that. I was able to show him my
tree on the family search so thanks to all my family members who have done work
on that. He told is at the end that he promises to read the entire book of
mormon!
The other Elders and us went to Hna Valdivia house (as
always haha) and she had bought 4 Tlayuda for us. Tlayuda is this like ancient
Oaxacan food. It has a crispy crust think (like a giant rount tortilla chip),
cabbage, a special kind of cheese, avocado, tomato, pickled carrots, beans, and
meat (ours had tripe). La mera verdad es it was like my favorite food I've had
on my mission. Sooo good, but super weird too.
Love you all! If you aren't already, start having daily
study in the scriptures. Go into the scriptures with a question, get rid of
your "doctrinal blind spots" as E. Klebingot called them.
- E. Thompson
Fotos:
1. Tlayuda party
2. Yo
3. Hump day package! Thanks family :)
4. Giant sunflower
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