Hello my good fellow people.
first of all, I have bronchitis. And have had it for like three weeks or
so. I am now taking an antibiotic to kill it out of my lungs. Good.
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| Dallin with his lungs! |
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| Dallin's Bad Lungs! |
Otherwise the week has been mostly as normal, except of course, the days I
was constrained to my bed, when we did not leave. the surgery for the mother of
Juan went well. I was, evidently, not able to donate blood due to the fact that
I was sick. They told me that 21% of the blood cells in the sample they took
where white, which is very high. I also learned that I am A+ type, but I really
don't know what that means.
Currently as a mission we are doing a thing with our ALB, which is the key
indicator for street contacting. Basically The mission president has asked all
of us to do 10 street contacts every day as a companionship, 5 each, in order to
find more news and obtain more references e&c. It's something that I find to
be rather hard, since I have difficulty know what to say to begin a conversation
with people. Mostly we just offer people a pass-along card with a picture of
Jesus and go, "Hey, can we give you a picture of Jesus?" and then if they take
it and run away, so be it. Some people listen though, maybe half of the people
we talk to every day. Which is actually a lot harder, because then I have to
think about the things I'm going to say.
I'll probably leave this area in this next week that is coming. I've spent
almost a quarter of my mission here. it will be interesting to see another part
of the mission (I'll probably go inside of Mendoza province). I hope I get
another Spanish-speaking companion, my Spanish has improved dramatically since I
started working with elder veintimilla.
Speaking of almost a quarter of my mission, next week will be my 1/4 email.
I'll probably wax philosophically about the meaning of life and bread
products.
On my scripture-study highlight, this week I was particularly impressed by
the fifth chapter of Jacob, and several of the cross-references to doctrine and
covenants, especially D&C 33. They are bout large blocks of scripture, so
i'll leave you to read them on your own if you so desire.
and something more:
at mothers day, my father asked what I thought was important for someone
who was preparing to go on a mission. I never properly answered that, so, I'll
do it here, because some of you are preparing for missions & it might be
cool but if it does not interest you, you need not read it.
-Know what a mission is. Be familiar with the purpose of missionaries as
stated in the first page of Preach my Gospel. Read all of the first chapter of
PMG, and, time and motivation permitting, study the accompanying scriptures and
complete the study activities. If you so wish, you might memorize the missionary
purpose word for word. This will help you have a clearer understanding of
exactly what is expected of missionaries, what going on a mission even means,
and why missions are so important.
-Go to Seminary. I know that before I left on my mission I did not have
tons of motivation top study scriptures on a daily basis, but seminary
attendance will grant not only a strong foundation knowledge of key doctrines,
but also provides a well structured study routine that helps you learn how to
study well. also seminary teachers are usually super cool and have lots of
wisdom to laser into your minds.
Wisdom lasers
Good
Those would be my top two pieces of advice. Also, stay classy, Read Moroni
10 regularly and take advantage of the cause-effect promise in verses 3-5, and
gain a testimony,
El.Backstrom out.
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