Week 19 - Fast Cars and Alpacas

 

Hello everyone, This week was pretty normal. We did a couple of services and I got to set foot In an absolute mansion.

One of the services that we did was for some really old people and we had 6 missionaries go to that one.  We unloaded 4 meters of mulch and spread it around a bunch of bushes around their home. They really wanted to pay us, but we told them that lunch would be perfect so they got each of us a sub from subway. It was pretty good.

The next day we had our district service at a stake service activity. This service was at a women's sanctuary and we did a lot of yard work. Some of the Elders and I had to dig a long trench in 38°c heat, I was sweating like a pig.

One of the bishopric in one of the wards that we are covering is like mega rich and has a mansion that he lives in. He was telling us that he likes this house because it is smaller then the last one that he had. I was like this is a small house, I wonder how big his other house was. He showed some pictures of his old house and it is like a super mansion. While we were there we talked about missionary work and about people we could visit.

Yesterday Elder Phelan and I had a really cool.street contacting experience. We were making an agenda for a meeting on Tuesday and I heard a car drive by that clearly had a turbo in it so I went by the road to go se it and he ad just parked this really nice nissan gtt r34. So we went up to h and started chatting about cars with him and we got his number and he said that he would take us on a drive later.

A scripture that stood out to me this week was Alma 37:41, which says:

41 Nevertheless, because those miracles were worked by small means it did show unto them marvelous works. They were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence and then those marvelous works ceased, and they did not progress in their journey.

I love this scripture because it says that when we are lazy and slothful, the marvelous works In our lives will cease. I have seen this in my life many times where because of my laziness I have missed out on blessings.

Thanks for reading the email!

Emoji of the week: 🦥

Slang of the week: skint, meaning Broke, like out of money.

Talk to you next week,

Elder Brayden Beattie