M- I'm doing alright. It's been a slow week with a lot of
biking.
I- Not too much to update on investigators. We didn't really meet
with anyone with week. Dustin is a little bit MIA, so it's back to trying to
find.
R- Phone work is important work too. It's easier and more
effective to make five phone contacts, than to ride your bike around in circles,
and maybe contact one person.
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| Bishop Schow and his cute family |
A- One really good thing about our area is all the awesome
trails. Since I’m in a high income area, there's lots of nice little parks with
trails leading from park to park across our whole ward. It makes getting around
on a bike a lot more fun, and a lot faster. The weather has been great out here
too. The fall is awesome in the Midwest. With the good weather this time
of year, it gives us a chance to contact a lot of people.
C- Elder Timmreck is doing well. It amazes me how much hot sauce
he puts on everything! If I ate half of the things he did, I would melt my face
off.
L- Don’t eat Taco Bell for lunch and then unrefrigerated yogurt
and expired baked beans for dinner. It does not end well. It does not well at
all.
E- So this Sunday was something else. We were running a
little late so Elder Timmreck and I quickly stepped in and sat down as the
meeting began. After the announcements and what not the bishop stood up and
said that today well be talking about General Conference and the importance of
listening to the prophets voice, and I thought "oh that's funny, I'm
speaking on that next week." Then I thought to myself "Hmm, no one is
on the stand, I wonder who is speaking today?" Then I thought to myself.
"Oh crap!" I leaned over to the old lady sitting next to me and ask
if I could see her program and sure enough, there's my name right after the youth speaker. Mid sacrament song I go up to the bishopric on the stand and
with a mix of fear and confusion ask if I'm really supposed to speak today, and
brother Jones says "well you're on the program, would you be able to? So I
tell him of course and go sit down on the stand just as the sacrament song ends
to plan my twenty minute talk. I swear the sacrament has never been passed so
fast in my life, and that youth speaker only spoke for like two minutes flat.
So with all of five minutes of preparation under my belt I gave a talk in
sacrament meeting. Considering the circumstances I don't think it went too bad!
It was a pretty simple subject. I just quoted a couple paragraphs under
"follow the prophet" in preach my gospel, read the first scripture
reference it had listed and then talked about Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk
for the rest of the time. It makes for a pretty easy talk when all you have to
do is stand up there and talk about how great your mom is for twenty minutes.
Ha, after the meeting I checked the text that the first counselor had sent me,
and he totally asked me to speak on the 18th. Oh well. It all turned out
alright in the end.
Well. That's all I got
for the day. Hope you have a great week. Thanks for reading!
Love, Elder Cluster
Love, Elder Cluster
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