Hello what's up, didn't write last week because honestly I didn't want to. I'm out of training and my trainer is finally gone.....off to ghana!! My new companion is a great guy, he's really good at voice imitation but he can only do cartoon characters like Disney movies and stuff......he hasn't seen any Harry Potter, star wars, Jason Bourne, or james bond or anything so he is kind of limited. He grew up in idaho his whole life working at his dads cow milk farm who took over the business from his dad who took it over from his dad. He got up at 5 everyday and milked all the cows for 5 hours then milked them all again like 12 hours later.....sounds horrible to me but he's going back to do all that again. The crazy thing is, is that he doesn't even get paid....His high school graduating class was around 40 people. so you can see he kind of lived in a little Idaho bubble. He's an awesome guy tho, and he knows the gospel and lessons so well. The good thing about him is that he thinks of all the stuff I don't. So when we are planning a lesson he has lots of good ideas.
....we had a super spiritual lesson with this guy that left the church a couple years ago. The main thing that I've seen that can bring the spirit into a lesson is when you get personal and share personal experiences. The spirit was so strong and I know he felt it as well. If I have enough time here I'm positive my companion and I can be instruments in the Lords hands and bring him back to the fold........theres this talk I'm eventually going to try and get him to watch.....it was given by elder bednar in 2006 called "and nothing shall offend them"......its really good and it basically says "are you really going to let who or whatever push you away from the church and the blessings of following Jesus Christ"???.....the answer we should all have is no. I want Gary to realize that because that's why he left the church, his old bishop was apparently super rude to him......anyway check out the talk. the church is perfect, but the people aren't, and no one is or will be in this life...
....saw my parents and sister because they were driving back from Utah so that was a cool treat. Feels like I just saw them a couple days ago because we talk or facetime each p-day......aside from everything written not to much is happening in little old Rantoul. we are grinding Facebook and the area book to find a "new" meaning a new person to teach, but that is slow going at the moment......hope you're all doing good.
I still haven't heard anything about going to Mexico but I know it's open, so we will just have to wait.....alright adios!
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