Okay. The weather here is seriously freaking me out. I woke up this past Saturday morning at 6:15
with my companion to exercise. After he went in to the bathroom to take
a shower, I noticed there was a weird whiteness outside the windows. So
I rubbed off the condensation and... um... it was snowing. Yeah. There
was a white carpet of snow EVERYWHERE. It freaked me out!!! I didn't
really know how to react. I just stared out the window for about 2
minutes straight. What was this white powder? I'm from Gilbert... this
whole snow thing does not compute! Then I started YELLING like a little
kid, "IT'S SNOWING!!!" (Keep in mind we're in a building with four
apartments... I'm pretty sure I woke up the people living above us...
who already don't like us. But who cares? SNOW!!! :P) I ran to get my
camera, and went outside and took a video like some crazy weatherman
seeing a tornado. I'm from Arizona... it's not my fault, okay? :P
I have made some pretty interesting French errors this past little while. For example. On Sunday,
I had a really big lunch because we were going to be driving up to
Quebec for a zone conference that evening (that's where a bunch of
missionaries in the area get together to be taught by the mission
president. They're SUPER fun). But since we were going to be in Quebec,
we were supposed to pack our dinners... and I'm WAY too lazy for that.
So I threw some crackers in the car and Elder Boscan said, "Tu ne veut
pas manger le souper?" (You don't want to eat dinner?) I responded with,
"Si j'ai beaucoup de faim, je vais manger." (If I have a lot of hunger,
I will eat.) Well. Apparently. I pronounced "faim" wrong, and instead, I
said, "femmes." That means "wives." So. Apparently, my eating is
determined by whether or not I have wives. Elder Boscan got a good laugh
out of that one. :P
I want to talk a little
bit today about the Savior's invitation to become as little children. We
are teaching a 16 year old boy named Camilo Cortes here. The other day,
his sister, Karen, walked up to us and asked us to teach her. SHE asked
US. So we sat down and shared the message of the Restoration of the
gospel of Jesus Christ through His modern-day prophet, Joseph Smith. She
was writing on a note pad while we taught, and we asked her what she
was doing. "Oh, I'm just taking notes." I almost fainted. This girl is
12 years old. She has plenty of other things she could be distracted by.
But she wanted to hear about the gospel.
I
think we could all learn a lot from Karen. She understands something
very important... the gospel of Jesus Christ is more important than
ANYTHING else. It is EVERYTHING. If we find ourselves making excuses to
avoid going to church, to avoid going to mutual or to other church
activities; to not pay tithing; to avoid prayer and scripture study; how
can we profess to follow the Savior? He has asked us to come unto Him
with the humility of a little child. If a young girl of 12 years old can
realize that... how much more need have we to realize that? I have
decided, and I invite all of you to do so as well, to step back and look
at my life. Do I prioritize other things over my duty as a disciple of
Jesus Christ? Do I truly humble myself and choose to sacrifice other
things I COULD be doing in order to serve Him and keep His commandments?
I
love each and every one of you. I am thankful for your examples for me
in my life and I am proud to know all of you. Never, ever, ever let
yourself slip into the comfortable downward spiral of going through the
motions in the Lord's service. This is His church, and He needs every
hand He can get to help keep this stone cut out of the mountain rolling
to fill the earth! Let's put our shoulders to the wheel... He needs us
now more than ever! En avant!
Elder Bryan McOmber
The leaves are beginning to fall.... winter is coming!
The farm across from the church building!
The bridge across the river to get into Quebec City! It snowed just after this for about 30 minutes... in October!!!
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