It’s P-Day again! This is the first P-Day in
about a month that I actually used a few
hours to sleep and rest. The last 3-4 P-Days E. Tanus went back to sleep as
soon as it was 8:00 and I tried to too but I couldn’t stand laying down and
doing nothing for even 2 minutes and so I got up, cleaned the house, and wrote
my weekly letter. After (almost ) two years of constant, hard work, I feel like
I always have to be doing something. Today I made myself keep laying down for a
few more minutes until I fell asleep, and it was actually pretty great. It’ll
be funny to see how I’ll be when I get home next month—I think I’ll always be
looking for something to do!
The weights and bar I got from the house of the
other elders have taken morning exercises to a whole other level. That’s been
fun.
Last P-Day night we taught a lesson to a missionary
couple from a volunteer organization. They were nice—they gave us a good snack
of toasted peanuts and lemonade—but it has been a long time since I’ve taught a
lesson to people so hard-hearted and closed-minded. I have found that atheists,
agnostics and Buddhists are generally more respectful, receptive, and open –minded
(even if they don’t believe in our message) that extreme “Christians” I put “Christians
in hyphens because Christians are those who profess belief in and follow Jesus
Christ as the Son of God but there are unfortunately quite a few “Christians”
that don’t act like Christ showed us to. We invited them to read and pray about
the Book of Mormon—if it’s true, God will tell you, and if it’s false, He’ll
tell you too. They didn’t allow themselves to conceive the possibility of
anything besides the Bible being capable of being the Word of God. We bore our testimonies
and left. I know, by the power of the Holy Ghost that testifies of all truth, that
the Book of Mormon is the Word of God. During my mission I’ve studied and
pondered about the Savior, and I hope to be, now and during all my life, a true
Christian—not just believing in Jesus, but becoming like Him. Why should we
ever limit ourselves to merely professing belief in Christ when, through
keeping His commandments, repenting of our sins, and dedicating our lives to
serve and follow Him, we can be completely transformed from our natural and
carnal state in His sons and His daughters! I invite you all to look up and
read Mosiah 5. This letter will not be complete without it.
BUT we taught some receptive people also this
week. I love teaching the gospel and know I'll miss it a ton. I really hope to
baptize a family before the end of my mission, and I believe it will happen!
Last night we had an awesome activity with the
young single adults of the ward. We plan to do several activities with them to
involve them in the work. We played a game where we filled a cup with flour,
turned it upside down on top of a plate, and put a 5 cent coin on top of the
cup-shaped form of flour. Everyone had to use a knife to cut away an edge of
the flour with his teeth. Yep, I ended up having to put my face in the flour!
Hahaha it was fun.
Elder Anderson
Planning out the rest of my mission and post-mission life!
some pics of the activity with ths YSA
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