Saturday: Elder Miskho thought it would be funny to set an alarm for 3:30 in the morning. That was funny in hindsight, but in the moment it sucked.
Sunday: Elder Miskho was at it again, but this time he set three alarms for 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30. By the third alarm I was so tired I didn't even wake up. Then we said goodbye to another district in our branch. We also watched a video on the building of the Salt Lake Temple.
Monday: Elder Miskho was too tired to set more alarms, so I got a full night's rest. We also were walking back to the casa when we saw some Elders picking avocados from a tree. The only problem was that the avocados were about 20 feet off the ground, their solution was to tape a bunch of sticks together and put a coat hanger on the top. Surprisingly it worked.
Tuesday: So everyday in our classes we have this bug spray we have to put on, and my district has gotten into the habit of hiding it from Hermana Resendiz, and we took it to new heights today, figuratively and literally. We got a shoelace and tied it to a cord hanging from the ceiling.
Wednesday: We had TRC in the morning, and it was cool. Me and Elder Cox were able to teach to the whole plan of salvation twice to the members that came.
Thursday: It was my birthday and I turned 19. That was fun. I got to call my family and talk with them for a bit. We also had a service project in the kitchen. My companion and I were helping a guy named Estaban, and he had us open a bag of sugar and pour it into a container. After we did that he told us we could go back to our casa and take a nap, but we instead went and played volleyball. It was fun.
A quote I found by C. S. Lewis that I really love is “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. … There are no ordinary people. … Your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses”.
Everyone is a child of God with infinite potential. We must try to see people as God does. Everyone has worth, and I know it is our job to try bring everyone to Christ.
I'll talk to you all next week,
--Elder Thompson
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