Hey everyone!
This week has gone faster than any week before. It seems like just last night I was realizing it was Monday night and I had a whole week until the next P-Day, but here I am! I had another exchange this week with Elder White, one of the zone leaders. I really look up to and enjoy the leaders in our district so much and have been really blessed to be able to work with them so much. Both of the zone leaders are really solid in their Spanish as well which really motivates me and gives me faith that I'll be able to accomplish a lot with the language despite not being totally immersed in it. I have a lot of faith that if I put the work in, I'll be blessed with the promised gift of tongues. It's slow and requires a lot of trust, but I really am working hard at it.
Work wise this week has been fairly slow with a lot of tracting and fallen through appointments. I think I have a curse for making appointments fall through, it always happens when I go on exchanges and there are "solid" lessons set up. Great news though! We had a lesson with this couple, Susan and Jamie, and Susan is so excited to learn about the Gospel. We read Mosiah 18 with her and she tore it apart. We just talked to her about what stood out to her, and it's incredible to hear her explain the importance of baptism under the proper priesthood authority. She also loved my quad set of scriptures and my marking system, so that's good too. That night we asked her to be baptized and she readily accepted! The spirit was so strong as we drove into the scriptures. We're truly blessed to have God's word so readily at hand to always guide and direct us.
Other than that exciting night... ohhhhh... after dinner last night I had such a funny experience. We were driving along the zone leaders and realized they still had our keys, so I rolled down the window and yelled "NECESSITO NUESTROS LLAVES!!!" They whipped those babies out and Elder White (also driving) reaches them out the window towards my outstretched arm. We tried for like thirty seconds before we finally made the exchange! It was almost a perfect handoff, but I did lose my knife that was on the keychain. We were dying it was so funny! Anyways. We had some solid dinner appointments this week, one of which included the KFC Buffet! I stuffed myself, and as we were wrapping up, the other three elders piled a plate of pudding, jello, and good ole biscuit pudding on a plate for me. I think Elder Clayton us trying to kill me. Oh, and as for the title, down here there's a really cheap store called Aldi's, and they have a gallon of Hawaiian punch for like two bucks and let me tell you, that stuff is GOOD! I'll probably have one of those in my fridge for the rest of my life.
A few study suggestions this week: I've been reading more talks, but try listening or reading the last talks each of the prophets gave. Lots of those are very powerful and have great messages. Also, Moroni 7 basically sets up the simple yet powerful ways we should live our lives. This week we had testimony meeting as well, and though it was freezing outside, the spirit was so strong. I want everyone to know how essential the spirit is in our lives. It's easy to recognize the difference when he is and isn't near us, but I know how much our Heavenly Father wants to bless us with his presence. I know that as we strove to live like His Son, Jesus Christ, we will be exponentially blessed in all aspects of our life!
Elder Shepherd
P.S. The attached picture is the temp while tracting
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