The Sequence and Order of Life: Death Included

As A$AP Rocky would say..."Praise the Lord." Another good week in the books. But also some sad very news from this last week. 

We went to the Capital last week!

Last Monday night, we went by our friend's house to see how he was doing. He was supposed to get baptized that coming Saturday, so we wanted to make sure he was still doing well. He lives with his dad and recently his health had gone downhill pretty fast. He's only 64 year's old so he isn't even that old. Our friend, Stanley that was getting baptized is ten year's old. Anyways....we knocked on the door and didn't have a very good feeling because there was a bed in their living room and we thought we heard sirens that morning. Then his mom came out and told us that his dad past away that morning. So sad... man I loved Stan Sr. He was so funny and a really good guy. It was sad to see his health go from pretty good to really bad and then he got better for a while and then got even worse. 

Please pray for their family. 

This week in a nutshell:

- We started teaching two Jehovah Witnesses friends. Super interesting what they believe. I am really grateful for all the knowledge I have about my Heavenly Father and what my purpose is here. I am excited to learn more about that religion from the source, though.

We got an ottoman.

- After someone gave a talk in church, this guy started clapping  it really was a good talk though, so I didn't blame them Haha 

selfies

- remember when we helped get 21 of our friends to church a few weeks ago? Well we found out something cool the other day. We were told by the APs (assistants to the mission president) that we set a new mission record for most people at church. Pretty cool. I am putting this info in here cuz this is basically my journal. lol

Elder Cleverly was super tired and fell asleep during a lesson with Riley. hahah

- We got to go to a trunk-or-treat, and some members of the church brought their friends to the party. Then we got to talk to them and got to know them pretty good. Now we are going back again on Thursday. This shows that bringing your friends to activities and not being scared to be a "missionary" works! 

Trunk-or-treat party

At the Capital Building.

- There was a talk given by someone at church, where he were talking about Christlike attributes and how we can pray and ask to grow/gain that attribute, and we won't just get the attribute all of the sudden. But that we will be given experiences and trials that (if we go in with faith and have the desire to grow) will help us gain that attribute. 

We got to go to the Patagonia Outlet!!

Okay one more cool thing. Last week we were in a meeting with another friend who we hadn't gotten to meet with for like 1.5 or 2 months probably. He is Muslim and loves the Quran. And now he LOVES The Book of Mormon too. Last week we read Moroni Chapter 10 with him. We were blown away. And talking about how he gets such a good feeling when he reads The Book of Mormon and how it literally couldn't be a "normal book." SOO RAD. He was like "when I read the Quran, and when I read this Book...same feeling. Feel so happy and good..." Amen bruther. I love seeing other people love The Book of Mormon and learn from it. We literally couldn't get him to stop reading the book. We had to tell him we needed to pray and leave because we were going to miss our curfew. Pray that this love of The Book of Mormon can turn into action and increased faith. 

Seeing some old friends from my first area, while on exchanges. 

Scripture of the Week: 

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (The Old Testament). This is CRAZY! First off... shoutout to Belle for being on the same page as a talk that was given yesterday. She was telling me about this scripture and important it is to go about life in the way and order that we are supposed to. Then in, someone brought up that dame scripture and taked about the blessings of following the order that God designed for us. There is order in everything :)))

1 To every thing there is a ^aseason, and a ^btime to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A ^atime to be born, and a time to ^bdie; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to ^alaugh; a time to ^bmourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to ^aget, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to ^arend, and a time to sew; a time to keep ^bsilence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to ^ahate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Song of the Week:

- Anchor by Mindy Gledhill. This song is SO GOOD. Shout out to Alexa for reminding me about it. And shoutout to mom for getting me on the Mindy train 

Love,

- Elder Ditto