Joseph Smith

 Hola

I am sure that almost all of you are aware that this past Tuesday was the day that Joseph and Hyrum Smith were martyred. So this week I have been studying that a little bit and digging deeper into my own relationships. With the gospel and with family. What would I do for my brothers? My sister? How far would I go? I can say with a certainty that I would do whatever it takes to keep them safe. 

This week: 

- We were walking in the park while a Pastor was preaching over the mic and he gave us a shout out because we were picking up trash the other day.  

- We got sauced up by a another Pastor... Bro. Frank. He was super nice but told us we had to become perfect in this life. *scratches head* Not possible, sorry Frank.  

- Exchanges with the goat E. Lines. He is from SoCal and he gave me the energy boost that I needed. ️ 

- I finally succeeded at using our new finding technique and it felt soooo good.  

- Saturday was Noche de Hogar (family home evening), we watching the Restoration movie and it was so good.  

- DC (District Council; a weekly meeting with other missionaries) with a Humility focus! 

- Spikeball at the beach again. I can feel my powers returning.  

We are filtering through our friends a lot faster now, those who don't want to go to church, we don't work with. Simple. Easy. We have two progressing friends rn: Kenet who is our age and now reads the bofm for an hour every day and Petula who has a hard life and is trying to get closer to God. I can see their efforts and I know God is pleased with them. 

Lastly, with this extra focus on humilty I have learned a lot. Most of the time when we hear the word humility, we think pride. While pride is a huge factor in humility, an aspect that is talked about less is that to be humble means to not have self-pity. We need to be happy with the things we have and work even harder to keep them. That's it, go kill it this week. 

1. Post English class  

2. District pday 

3. DC 

4. District pday 

5. Views 

6. Working hard  

7. E.Lines  

8. More views 

Love y'all 

Elder Stockett