Fourth of July

July 12, 2020

Fourth of July

July 6, 2020

Happy Fourth of July everybody! I hope y'all had a good day full of fireworks and BBQ and social distancing! For our Fourth of July all four of the Elders in Plainview got together and ate some chili lime chicken and played Settlers of Catan. It was a good time.

Four Elders in Masks

Anywho, on our end, we had a pretty uneventful week. We were only able to meet with Andrew over the phone once this week. He seems to be progressing pretty well, but he still hasn't come to church yet. If y'all could pray for him to be able to come that would be so amazing!

As for new people, we really haven't been able to find anyone. It's been a little bit of a struggle, but we have some new ideas that we're going to try this week. And of course if you have any ideas, please let us know!

Spiritual thought! I've been reading through the Institute manual for the Book of Mormon, and this really stuck out to me. I was reading about Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life and the iron rod, and there was this quote from David A Bednar:

“Let me suggest that holding fast to the iron rod entails the prayerful and consistent use of all three of the ways of obtaining living water that we have discussed tonight [reading, studying, and searching]… The regular use of all three methods produces a more constant flow of living water and is in large measure what it means to hold fast to the rod of iron. …Are you and I daily reading, studying, and searching the scriptures in a way that enables us to hold fast to the rod of iron … ?”

I really like how he emphasises the three types of reading, studying, and searching instead of just reading. I'm finding out on my mission about how to do all three more efficiently, and it's been awesome (especially since I've had a lot of time to study in quarantine 🤣)

All right, I think that's about it! Here are some fun of pictures of Lubbock! I feel like most of them are pretty self explanatory