(Elder Cummings)
大家好！
We started teaching 4 new people this week! The Work doesn't
stop that's for sure. They're all so awesome and exciting to talk to. With the
change to no more tracting, most if not all of the people we come in contact to
WANT to be contacted because they've referred themselves. This makes lessons
more engaging and reflective on their part because even if they aren't looking
to be baptized but just are looking into the Church, they have questions.
Yes, we're getting evacuated for Hurricane Zeta coming right
into New Orleans in a few days. Not a bad one, but you gotta use an
"abundance of caution". Just pray that it doesn't get any stronger!
This week we had the branch Trunk-or-Treat! Elder
Christensen and I carved some pumpkins and threw all our ties in our trunk. I'd
say it was a success... It was fun seeing a bunch of people outside of
sacrament meeting though, we were able to chat and get to know many of them. So
many people just gave us candy and cupcakes. SO much! We gave it all away to
the kids, the parents probably didn't appreciate that🤣
For P-day we went to a National Reserve down in the Bayous.
When I learned I was coming to Louisiana I thought the swamp is what I'd be
living in, especially when I learned I was going to the West Bank. But thankfully
we don't have to live like Shrek. But we saw a gator! That was awesome!
My spiritual thought is not my own, but the thought of an 18
year old we're talking with. He's had a terribly hard life, and without sharing
too much he described his life as "hitting the bottom of the barrel, and
then scraping through the bottom with your bare hands just to get even deeper.
And then before you know it you can't even see where you started from".
Despite this, he testified that everything happens for a reason. He knows that
every single trial he has had is for a reason. He knows that he doesn't know
the reason, but he knows that God knows the reason. I hope that we can all look
at our trials and afflictions with that perspective. Understand that you might
never know the reason God has allowed your trials to happen, but trust that He
knows the reason and knows it's for your benefit. I testify that is true and do
so in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Photos!
1.Our trunk, pretty good I know
2. Us at the Bayous
3. Gator
4. Me and Gator(it crawled a way a little bit but its still
there)
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