To the best friends and family a person can hope for,
So, I'm being transferred. I'm going to Ammon North 1, which
is in Idaho Falls. I will be in a trio, one of which will be Elder Thompson
(never met before) and another new missionary coming in. It should be fun. I'm
sad to leave some of the people in Sugar City. The people here are so nice, and
I've come to grow some good relationships with people. I am excited for a
change though! I'll be transferring on Thursday this week.
Other than that, no much happened this week. This week we
had an exchange, and I went with an Elder name Elder Bottorff, also know as
Commander Bottorff, because he knows a lot about war history, and he's a zone
leader. They've started to call the district leaders under him Lieutenants. I
guess that makes me Lieutenant Slade. I like the ring of that. This week we
also helped someone put sod in their yard. That work is not meant for someone
with twig arms like me. I woke up sore the next morning.
But today I'd like to talk a little bit more about what I
talked about a few weeks ago, between the different between knowing something
and doing something based on that knowledge. One of my new favorite quotes is,
"What we do, depends on how we feel about what we know." That's one
of the differences between faith and pure knowledge in my opinion. Faith
includes an emotion, a feeling, a hope based on what you know, thus causing you
to make decisions. For example, Jesus Christ was real and lived. He said He
died for us. Of that, there is too much historical evidence to refute. However,
how I feel about His life, ministry, suffering, and subsequent death is what
makes me want to share that with others. I love my Savior for everything He did
for me, and I respect and honor him as my older brother. I cannot express in
words the gratitude and awe I feel when I think of His atoning sacrifice for
me. I both know that He died for me, and I feel the underlying love that was
the motivation for that sacrifice. And that feeling results in the Lord
blessing me with increased knowledge. If you can't feel that love, then I would
invite you to be humble enough to let Him into your lives, for that is how we
come to that conclusion.
The title came from a text by someone we texted about a
month ago, and he finally responded by saying "I'd like to say I was
incapacitated or something, but I just totally forgot to respond." It was
a pretty funny moment. An interesting fact about Idaho schools though: a lot of
Idaho schools have a break called Spud Harvest, where they are out of school
for 2 weeks at the beginning of October to pick Potatoes. Shout out to
potatoes, for ruining our youth's education. Thank you. We sure appreciate you.
Lol, jk.
Pictures:
1. Us by the sign for Teton, one of the towns we cover
2. I made lemonade a little while back. Very sour.
3-4. Attacked by a cat in the middle of a lesson.
5. I may or may not have covered my companions desk with
sticky notes while he was in the bathroom...
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