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| Got my tiger gear on. |
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| Eating papusas with this big family ---- Yum |
Okay everyone I am so sorry I did not write an email this last week. I'll be honest, I totally forgot but it's okay I am back and you guys can know about my week now. Lol. Well I hope everyone is doing good and loving life because I sure know I am loving life.
We had a pretty cool experience yesterday at church. Well idk not really a cool experience but it definitely got me thinking about some stuff... So the Spanish branch here is super lazy and nothing is run like it is suppose to. And lately we have been going into young men's to help and get to know the youth.. And every week they have just been teaching out of the book of Mormon and not doing come follow me. Lol. So this week we decide to do it and the president of young men looks at us and asks how to get to it on his his phone and he continued to say "yeah I apologize I have never looked at this before" hahaha he's the young men's president and he has never looked at come follow me. Lol. So he finds it and clicks on the plan of salvation and asks the question to everyone. "what happened in the premortal life?" and no one answered.. And finally one kid stepped up and said here I'll draw it and then the rest of class we went over the entire plan of salvation... But it amazed me to see how little these kids knew... THE PARENTS OF THESE KIDS FAILED. I mean I hate to say that but they failed.... And I was thinking of the scriptural references to this. And with the stripping warriors... They won and didn't die because of the things they learned in their youth and they were obedient... We know from the very first scripture in the book of Mormon that Nephi was taught in his youth about the gospel... Enos 'remembered the words of his father' which means he was also taught... The sons of mosiah, yeah they had a little hickup in their life but then they became some of the greatest missionaries ever... All these great people were great because of their parents... Because there parents taught them about the gospel in their youth. And yesterday at church, these kids showed that they weren't taught in their youth.
I have a story... So one time, we were at this person's house and they are a part member family and the member is a less active person. And we were over there and we are super tight with this family. And their 11 year old son was asking us SOLID questions and this kid is sooo smart and wanted to learn more... And one day we read with the family of the story of the stripping warriors... And I knew I could get to the parents hearts with the kid... So I just started asking the kid questions... Like "how come the stripping warriors lived" "how do you think you could be like the stripping warriors" stuff like that.... And then he said something that struck me... He said "yeah I want to learn more about God because I have questions and every time I try and get my parents to study with me, they always tell me no and they are too busy" and I looked at the parents and they were in shock at this point... And I related the story now to them and what would have happened if the kids weren't taught in their youth... Lol they would have died... So I told them that their kids would die spiritually if they didn't teach them... Obviously that's an extreme... But it's true... If we aren't taught in our youth then when it comes to making all the decisions in life we are going to make them with out the help of god....
Sorry I am just ranting now. But parents, teach your kids. Do come follow me, it's inspired... Relate the scriptures to your kids, teach them the stories...
Just know I am doing good and I am loving life and time is flying by!! I love my companion. (Elder McRae) he is so fun and we have a blast together... Lol too much fun. But we are doing good work right now and just trying to finish strong.
Also shout out to the valentines day packages I got!!! Thanks mom, Kristin, and Becca.
Also I got a bunch of other pictures and videos so just go here and look at all of them. https://photos.app.goo.gl/W5fCTuMEiwBmkAo62
1. Eating papusas with this big family...
2. Mine and elder mcrae's new shades lol
3-4. Some sick graffiti we found
5. Got my tiger gear on lol
6. Just me claiming my territory through out Indiana. Dogs probably hate me here
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