Hello everyone! :)
It's been a pretty
interesting week.
First off, did you
know that Elder Canovas and Elder Obering are insanely good at foosball? They
wrecked us like three times in a row this morning. The last game was pretty
close though.
We had some fun
teaching appointments this week. It was super cool; our mission president came
up to Quebec with his wife and they went on splits with all the four teams in
Quebec for the day! It was super fun! :) We got to drive to a few appointments
with President and the whole time we just peppered him with doctrinal questions
and talked about all the things he'd learned and it was just awesome!
We've started teaching
a young man from Nepali. His family speaks almost no French, and he speaks
pretty good English. We spoke with him for about a half hour while his parents
just sat in the room with big smiles on their faces. They understood probably
none of what we were saying, but they were so nice and kind all the same! At
the end, the young man asked us if we could say the prayer in Nepali. When we
responded that we don't know Nepali, he said, "Of course you do! You're
missionaries! You know many languages!" Now, I don't know about any of the
other missionaries or returned missionaries reading this, but I know I still
struggle to know English, let alone French. No idea how I'm gonna make Nepali
work in there, but sounds like he wants us to learn it. :P Namastay!
Also, shout out to
Colton! Happy birthday man! :)
I've been wondering
about some different things this week. Kind of all over the place. But I
suppose the one thing I could say this week would be this:
Love your family with
everything you've got. No matter what they do, no matter what they've done.
Family is precious. We taught a couple last night who are always fighting. They
have a lot of problems in their lives and a lot of things they're working on.
We were sitting in their living room with both of them and the wife looked me
in the eyes and said, "I want to overcome my addictions so I can go to the
temple before my husband. I don't want to go there with him because he would
just annoy me. He's never going to stop drinking or smoking anyways." I
looked over at her husband and he just looked really sad and said, "I'm
not going to comment on that." I've been working with this couple for a
while, and they both have a lot to work on. I've watched them start to make
progress and then fall again and start to make progress and fall again, over
and over and over again. And listening to them go back and forth last night,
finally I was done watching them fight. What we said to them, I say to all of
you who are annoyed or fighting with any members of your family. To all of you
who harbor grudges or who feel that there is no hope.
QUIT IT. Let it go. If
you find yourself feeling it is excusable to hold a grudge for wrongdoing, that
it is allowable or permitted to give up on the blessing of an eternal family
because of failure or mistakes or hurtful words, understand very clearly that
this is an open and straightforward denial of the incredible Atonement of Jesus
Christ. If they were important enough to Him that He bled and died for them,
they had better the heck be important enough to you! I am sick of seeing hurt
and broken families because the pride of one foolish individual did not permit
him or her to forgive and move on. We're imperfect. We make mistakes. But love
is both a decision and a gift. When we decide to do everything we can to love
someone, it is then that the precious gift of Christlike love, charity, enters
our lives and allows us to conquer hate and envy and every other hurtful and
prideful emotion.
I love all of you!
En avant!
Elder Bryan McOmber
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