Week 98. The final stretch

 My trainer always wrote the week in the subject too and when I decided to do likewise he was on week 98. It's odd the small details we remember sometimes. Anywho, here are the highlights for the week

Basketball - every Monday night is basketball and last Monday we had 20 people show up. It was insane, normally the highest we have is 8. But about 6 weren't members and we were able to give 2 of them a tour of the church which was awesome. 

Bracelets - so funny story, a member asked us to help her make 5 friendship bracelets for a friend's birthday. My companion signed me up for it before telling me. So for the next week I worked on them and finished at the last second. I only took a pic of one tho

Ark of the Covenant - we found this small Ark of the Covenant box in this weird gargoyle statue place. So we put a small Bible in it

ASL - went on exchanges into the ASL area for the first time and it was awesome! I learned a lot of sign language and said 2 prayers. I also went out of mission boundaries to go give a blessing to someone 

Caitlin - she had a really awesome lesson while I was gone and then on Sunday night we did a video call and answered some of her questions. A few were some questions I had already gone over with her, but the cool thing is that this time I can tell she's really thinking about things now and talking to her dad about it, to try and figure out what she believes 

Transfer news - found out I'm staying for my last transfer!! YSA 4 life. Elder Niven is leaving to go to Everson and I'm getting 2 new comps to replace him: Elder Nuzman and Elder Casey. 

Spiritual thought - Christ is the light of the world and we are asked to be like Him and share His light. I was reading about Abinadi and read a verse that typically makes me laugh because he wasn't the best at hiding, and then I realized it's because we aren't supposed to. We're supposed to proclaim the Gospel and help others feel of His love and peace. I have 6 weeks as a missionary, but a lifetime of sharing the gospel. And so do you. Good luck and remember God loves you 

Mosiah 12:1

And it came to pass that after the space of two years that Abinadi came among them in disguise, that they knew him not, and began to prophesy among them, saying: Thus has the Lord commanded me, saying—Abinadi, go and prophesy unto this my people, for they have hardened their hearts against my words; they have repented not of their evil doings; therefore, I will visit them in my anger, yea, in my fierce anger will I visit them in their iniquities and abominations.

Pics

I won monopoly, we got Jonathan to wear a bolo, bracelet, and out of mission