Something really cool that I've noticed is that we always show up at Leidi Diaz´s house right when they need us. It's definitely a tender mercy. As I think I mentioned before, her son is in a wheelchair and his legs don't work. And every time we show up at their house, it's when they arrive and its perfect timing to help carry him up the stairs. I hope they can see that it is a tender mercy like we can.
Also this week we had training with the president which was pretty cool. We combined with the Kennedy zone and we just had one big training sesh. Also, they fed us sandwiches from a place called Qbano which was hecking good. Good times.
And on top of that I got to meet Elder Ostler!! Which was super cool, he was a real nice guy and we got a pic.
Today we went to Bosa Centro which is like big city Bogota! Super dope. I got to buy some ties, which are only like 3 bucks. We also got to eat McDonalds which was awesome. But its still just not the same. It's super cool being in the centro because there are a lot of members there and they always stop us to say hi. One guy stopped us outside of the McDs and talked to us about the church for a bit. Really nice guy. After that, he bought us some ice cream, then handed each of us 20 thousand pesos. Super nice guy.
Also I found Ramen at the Éxito!! What good news. And its only like 35 cents so its all good. I think I'm gonna go buy like 30 packets for this week, just to make sure we don't starve.
Also mom, I don't know if you can tell....BUT I'M AT THE FREAKING PIGEON PLACE. It's a part of my mission (haha) but just not my area. Maybe one day it will be though, I'm not sure. I love you guys like crazy and hope everything is awesome. I miss you guys so much, it kills me to even think about it, haha. But oh well what can I do. Talk to you guys next week!
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| Top Ramen! This is a HUGE deal for Tanner, since he used to eat it everyday. What a relief to know he won't starve. LOL! |
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| Also. McDonald's. A piece of home. |
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| Elder Ostler is from Kaysville, and in The Yancey's ward! |
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| Before Tanner left, we watched many Bogota videos on You Tube. This pigeon place was always shown and we couldn't wait for Tanner to see it in real life. And he made it there! |
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| Elder Leishman and Elder Sotoski |
As missionaries we love the people we serve because of our faith. Because we know of God's love and our understanding of faith. We want to share this understanding of faith with everyone in our mission, Companion, and investigators. This is the definition of faith
ReplyDeleteto bless all your loved ones. Faith blesses our family, makes us good missionaries and allows to give our self the Happiness of understood faith and the eternal joy to share that fact and to share that truth with others.
"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The definition of Faith
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