So, it snowed in Alabama! That was something i never though i would see while being here! When i left on my mission i thought i was saying goodbye to snow and temperatures under 50.... but turns out Alabama likes to surprise you and snow! It was a blast though, i didnt realize how much i missed snow until it was falling from the sky! but, i digress...
This week was an awesome one! it was the last full week of the transfer and so we did our best to finish out strong! we were a bit slowed down by things like snow, but... nothing could hold us down! Here is what we did.
Monday: We went to the civil rights institute and it was awesome. The culture and history of Birmingham is really interesting. It was literally the center of the civil rights movement. I really hope i'll be able to go through it again some day because it really helps you see the cruelty and inhumanity that went on during segregation. If we learn from the past than we wont repeat it. so im glad i was able to learn something from history this week.
Tuesday: we had "amnesty day" So we spent a couple hours cleaning our apartment really good as per presidents orders haha. It is spotless right now. we also visited a few investigators and members.
Wednesday: It snowed! but not tell the evening. All day was wet and raining, we tracted and then we took cookies to the Rudds who just had a new baby boy named Russell! they are an awesome english family who lives close to us. Then we went and taught rodrick who is progressing well, just very slowly. then we threw a party for diego! he turned 12 and is a recent convert. It started snowing at his party and since he moved from honduras this year he had never seen snow. he loved it! We went outside and we ended up having an apartment wide snowball fight. It was a blast!
Thursday: Was another wet rainy day but we decided to tract and go to downtown and it clearned up and was sunny so we were able to talk to a bunch of people in downtown homewood. pretty fun overall.
Friday: we were crazy busy! we went to a chinease buffet with the sisters investigator named Maria. She is super awesome, like even bears her testimony in sacrament! then we had to visit a few less actives and then we were assigned to clean the church and then we had soccer night. so we were running all day haha.
Sturday: We had transfer calls! I will be staying in Altadena one more transfer and i think we figured out who im getting, im not sure yet though so i will let yall know wednesday! Elder gnther is leaving and being made a zone leader. he is an awesome missionary so it was a no brainer that that happened haha.
Sunday: was fast sunday and then we had an 8 year old get baptized. he was not a convert baptism but it was an awesome opportunity to have a bunch of investigators see a baptism and to get the branch unified. Almost 60 people came to the baptism! it was awesome! After we visited a few memebrs that had been sick and took pictures, we then taught a few lessons then went to the renterias house for a goodbye dinner. It was a good day!
So yeah, a busy week, but a fun one!
I just want to leave yall with a quote that i love!
Discipline: Is just choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
so, in everything we do, in keeping the commandments, in healthy living, in temperance, in patience. our choices have great power. but if we choose to take the easy way out, to not be disciplined and to choose the momentary wants, then we will never achieve what we truly want. In the gospel by choosing to live all the commandments we have to choose to give up things like coffee and alcohol. things that might be "fun" but by doing so we will be immensely blessed. by doing so we are disciplining ourselves to choose what we really want. Eternal life. I cant think of anything thats worth more than that.
I hope we can all learn to discipline ourselves in some way a little better this week! that we might be disciplined disciples of Jesus Christ :)
Love yall!
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