Still getting colder... but it hasn't snowed again yet. I'M SUPER EXCITED FOR THAT.
Also...
so.... Elder Boscan, my companion, goes home in seriously 9 days. It's
kind of crazy because I remember three months ago when he said "three
months is a super long time" and it feels like it has only been a couple
weeks since then! Mission time is so insanely all over the place... I
have no idea how to even describe it. Days feel like weeks, weeks feel
like days, and the work goes on. I'm equally excited and terrified to
have a new companion; what if he's super disobedient and wants to rob a
bank or something? I'm wearing a tag with my name on it! I can't rob a
bank!!
But seriously. It'll be something to
have a new companion. We'll see how this goes. If I don't respond to
your emails... he's probably left me in the snow somewhere. Send help.
I
had an interesting experience this week. One of our investigators,
Frederick, is in the hospital. He's fine, we don't know exactly what
happened, but he's there. (No, we don't proselyte in hospitals. Pretty
sure that's illegal... :P) Anyways, he's a little bit schizophrenic and
he smokes and does some drugs... he's quite a character, to say the
least. I promise, we don't just go around finding as many weirdos as
possible. He just happened to be an old investigator from some past
missionaries and we went to see him a while back. Anyways. So he's in
the hospital. And we taught him a lesson and finished and he asked me to
say the prayer because he needed to go smoke. Well. I started saying
the prayer. And after about 20 seconds, in the middle of my sentence, he
just throws out, "Amen." So... I closed my prayer. Frederick was
literally jittering... he said, "I REALLY need to go smoke." And then we
left. As soon as we got into the elevator, Elder Boscan and I BURST out
laughing. It was quite an interesting time.
I
have spent my last week or so studying how to better change myself to be
more like the Savior. There's a scripture in the Book of Mormon, Mosiah
3:19,
that talks about overcoming the "natural man" - or the sin-loving part
of us - and becoming a saint through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and
trying to become like Him. I've really enjoyed the study. But I want to
say one thing, short and sweet: We can change if we try. That's what the
Atonement of Jesus Christ is for. Change is possible, and all it takes
is continuous effort. If you've stopped working at it... start again! If
you're currently working at it, keep working at it! I'm doing the same,
and that's what this life is all about!
I love and miss you all! Be safe and never give up!
En avant!
Elder Bryan McOmber
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