We met an old fossil

Yes boy. It's been a pretty sick week. We've been laughing way too much about high vis (high visibility). ALL workers here wear high vis and it's the best. I got some high vis gear. I'll try and include a pic. Anyways... this week was great!

My vis

M still ain't meeting with us. Bummer. He's outta town rn hopefully we'll see him later this week. We ran into Alicia again on the street! Haha it was so funny she had like 4 serious questions for us, then she was done talking. She's still not ready to start meeting and hearing the lessons, but all good, someday. (: we met a some solid dudes this week (David, Dan) who we will hopefully be able to start teaching. It's been a great week, like 4 people actually talked to us! 😜  

Cruisin yo

Another one of them was this lady named Judith, she is a pastor at her church (not sure how that works) we had a great chat about the restoration and she was well happy when we gave her a book of Mormon. So that's good stuff. (: think that's about it for investigator friends... we've put in some seriously solid finding, talking to as many people as we can. We'll find somebody who's ready soon. 🙏🏻 our boy Andrew has been in the hospital this week for his burned legs. We've visited him like 3 times this week. He is a good good man.

Me, Andrew, Elder Devenport

Ya boy! Elder Melvin Russel Ballard came to our mission! And oh man the mission conference we had was well enjoyable. It was a much needed conference and really helped me feel a lot more optimistic about this area. There was a bunch of people that spoke, elder Hallstrom, elder Patrick Kearon (my mission president was the first missionary to teach Kearon!😳), Elder Ballard spoke and it was seriously good, he is such a funny man. He told us how a young kid met him one day, and somebody told him he just met an apostle. So he ran home and told his mom he met an old fossil. 😂 Elder Ballard is the man. 

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That's me boy

But my favorite part, was the end. The MTC missionaries left, and all the general authorities left after Ballard was done speaking. So it was just us missionaries and sister and president McReynolds. Those two are the most amazing people. I love them so much. They both spoke to us, and it was so very good. It is amazing, you can just feel their love. They are the most genuine people. President used an analogy, you're lost in New York, and don't know where you are. So somebody gives you a map. But it's a map of Chicago. So it's no use to you. You try all these things, trying everything you can, but you can't get anywhere except with the correct map. He related it to how we need the right map in life. The map called the gospel of Jesus Christ. And how that's all we need to focus on. He talked about not focusing on changing our behaviours. But focusing on the map. 

Drenched

There is a quote from President Boyd K. Packer: 

"true doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior." 

I love this so much. God has some things he needs us to change. But focusing on our bad behaviors is absolutely miserable. It's hard to get anywhere if we just focus on trying to change what were bad at. But if we focus on Christ, and put him first, then he will change our behaviors that he needs us to change. I know that. For sure. Christ is walking with us, helping us as we seek to become more like him. I know he lives and that he suffered for all of us, so we can feel peace. I love him! 

And I love you all as well. I'm so grateful to have such incredible friends and family. Stay excellent my dudes.

-Eldwards