Sick People: 9/1/15

Hi!

     So for the first half of this week Elder Larson was pretty sick. There is a member who is a nurse, so she looked at him and said he probably got food poisoning or something like that. But now he´s better, so everything is okay. 

     Not too much else of note happened this week. Yesterday at church our new convert Sami passed the sacrament for the first time. I don´t know who showed him how to do it, but he did everything perfectly. He seriously looked like a professional who´d done it for years. So that was really cool to see. 

     We also have a baptismal date! One of the sisters´ investigators is being baptized this week, and when our investigator Daniel heard about it, he wanted to be baptized that day too. There´s just a few problems though, haha. We got permission to get him baptized this week IF we can teach him the rest of the lessons that he needs and get him interviewed by our district leader. So we´re going to talk to him about it and see how serious he is about being ready to be baptized this week, but if not then we will just have to wait another week or two, which is no problem. 

     This week something really weird happened. We were walking home at the end of the day, and it was DARK. I´m not used to it being dark before we´re already home, so it was a really weird experience. 

     This week our zone leaders have challenged everyone in the zone to listen to or read a talk by President Eyring called "This Day" from the April 2007 conference. I have only read through it once so far, but I´ve also seen a Mormon Message video that quotes a lot of it. I think that something really cool that I noticed in his talk is the message that even if we can´t do much, if we do all we can we will receive blessings not only for ourselves, but we will also bless others´ lives. Each day has so much potential, and I like how President Eyring words it: that each day is a gift from God. If we use the time we have been given in a good way, then I know that there are so many blessings and so much growth that we can experience.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Elder Smith

Unfortunately, I don´t have any pictures worth sending out this week :( So hopefully next week I´ll find more exciting things to take pictures of!