Good Morning!!
This week was good but also sucked. I’m itchy all over my body and have been sleeping on the floor with dryer sheets cause I guess they hate them. But we found 6 new people to teach.
Tuesday
For the past 2 days I’ve woken up and found red dots throughout my entire body and thought they were just mosquito bites until a member told me otherwise. She said I had bed bug bites all over the place and I need to spray the apartment. I went home and checked all around the bed and found bed bugs crawling in the frame. At this point I’m not even surprised this crap happens to me, there’s always something. I’m sleeping on the ground tonight with lavender oil caked onto my body because I guess the bugs don’t like it. It’s oil for the humidifier so I hope I don’t wake up with my skin falling off.
Wednesday
Woke up with some more bites which is awesome. Today we contacted the housing missionary and told him about the bugs. He said a company is going to have to come in and treat the apartment. I guess they heat this place up above 120 degrees and kill all of them. It rained a ton today which was awesome and we also had the great opportunity to give blessings to a family. The kids were going back to school and didn’t have a father in the home so they asked us. We had a Ramen cook off with the young men and made some exquisite stir fry with peppers and chicken in it. We were told the bed bugs hate dryer sheets so I’m sleeping with 50 of them around me tonight:)
Thursday
Today was pretty chill. We had a service at a house and the guy didn’t answer so we just started cleaning the yard. We were asked today to make a carpool karaoke video to a youth album song for a video the mission is making. It was the cringiest thing I’ve ever been a part of but it was a good time with all the elders piled in the car. We had a great lesson with kayzlee on the plan of salvation. I love teaching it because I have a strong testimony of families being together for eternity. We ended the night with soccer with all these dudes. Half of them had Messi and Ronaldo jerseys on. I scored 2 goals somehow which was awesome. My companion said being the only white dude dude and scoring brings it up a few notches
Friday
Today was chill. We played 3v3 soccer with the Spanish elders for our exercise this morning which was a good time. They are the goofiest dudes. We had district council and then got some celestial food at Costco. Tonight the highschool team in Magna had a football game so everyone was there. It reminded me of my first month in the mission hearing all the fireworks at the football football in Grantsville and getting trunky. We still grinded and got some people to come to church Sunday
Saturday
We had a ton of meetings today on planning out our goals for September. We went to the park to go to the bathroom and saw a whole car show there with cars that could go almost completely vertical with all the hydraulics it had. It was straight out of the cars movie. An absolute Karen answered the door today with RBF. Its sad when the kids answer the door all happy to see us and the parents come out pissed off. It’s just annoying when people take their anger on the church out on us. Bless her soul. This dude today tried to hand me a beer so that was pretty interesting. I don’t drink modelo.
Sunday
Pretty chill Sabbath overall. Had some people come to church which was awesome to see. My companion lectured me for 10 minutes because I said ” this week felt long”. He overthinks a lot of things and thought I was implying that this week was bad and I hated it. I thought I was bad at overthinking but holy crap this dude turns into the fbi.
Spiritual thought:
Matthew 18:21-22
21: Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22: Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
The lord asked us to forgive others 70 times 7. So why is it so hard to think the lord can’t forgive us of our sins? Why do we hold onto these sins we have repented of?
The savior is merciful and knows our struggles personally. We can be forgiven as we truly repent and forsake our sins. The lord will remember your sins no more so why let those past mistakes hold you from progressing forward. We must forgive ourselves.
Elder Willis