My Thanksgiving was just like every day here. We ate rice and beans, no one really celebrates it here. Black Friday is celebrated in the malls here, so more people celebrate Black Friday then Thanksgiving.
My comp and I are still working very hard, we should have a baptism this next week so I'll send you pictures of that hopefully. These last few days have been so hot, and yesterday was Fast Sunday and I almost ''died'' until some less actives gave us food and we could not refuse because that would be rude. When fasting my companion and I say, "If a member tries to give us food it's a temptation and we should not take it, if an investigator tries to give us food it's a blessing from God, because we can't refuse an investigator but members we can."
That's to bad Michael broke his foot, I guess he will dance with crutches. At least it is a good story on how he broke it. You better be able to go snowboarding, that's one thing I will miss a lot.
This P-day we tried to go fishing, but there were no fish. We got to ride in the back of a truck, with a bunch of crates and it was super bumpy. We agreed it was better then Indiana Jones at DisneyLand. The lake was very pretty and I have quite a few photos that I'll be able to send you guys. We got to walk in the forest a bit and take photos there as well.
I read a talk by Dallin H. Oaks called, "Love and Law".
God’s love is so perfect that He lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws can we become perfect, as He is. For this reason, God’s anger and His wrath are not a contradiction of His love but an evidence of His love.
I really liked this talk because it explains why we should teach with love, but still be direct with the commandments, and sometimes that's really hard to do. But I liked this part of the talk because it shows God gives us the commandments because he loves us. And we show our love to him by obeying them.
John 14: 15, if ye love me, keep my commandments.
Thank you for the letters and have a great week.
Love You All,
Elder Weston
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| They went fishing at this lake |
