OK, at least I'm trying. Sadly, I'm better at blogging now than writing in my journal. This is a highly depressing thing for me considering there was one year in High School that I didn't miss a single day of writing in my journal for over 360 days! Ya, I'm kind of proud of that, but I have digressed quite a bit since then in the journal department.
Enough of my random rants. EFY was basically amazing. WAY better as a counselor than as a participant. I had tons of fun, and learned a lot. I heard things in classes that I needed to hear to help me change things I needed to change. It helped give me a boost to do better with reading my scriptures and having meaningful prayers every day. Awesome speakers. Great dances. Amazing kids. Here is a picture of them. :-)
So there is this Chinese investigator that the Sister Missionaries have been teaching for a few weeks, by the name of Wei. He was a referral from some Elders in their District, I believe. Well, they had been trying to find a time where I could help them with a lesson (my mind kept wanting to say 陪 their 課... Old habits die hard, huh?). We finally did find a time to meet with him and his room mate, Kidd. Kidd did most of the talking, which was fine, but I really wanted to get to know Wei and figure out why, exactly, it was that the Sisters thought he was just so amazing. Well, later, we did get to talk to him alone. He is AWESOME! We taught him about the Plan of Salvation and the importance of Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. (those were more brief that the rest of the Plan of Salvation) But we invited him to be baptized on August 23rd, and he accepted! Of course, we had to explain that after you are baptized and have the Gift of the Holy Ghost, it is much easier to learn the Gospel, and it comes faster. Also we told him that we would help him prepare for his goal. It was such a great experience to be there and set a baptismal goal! In just under two weeks, I will have been home from my mission for 2 years... That's just crazy. It was just so much fun for me to be a little nostalgic of my Missionary times, and also look forward to what the Lord has in store for me in the future...
This past week has just been crazy, what with work, FHE, Chinese investigators, English Class, a rodeo, a dance and preparing for both of them, and then getting FHE ready for this week, I have been slightly busy. Which, I guess, is better than being bored to tears. So the rodeo and dance. Ya, the were pretty much amazing. Krystal Guison does clowning every once in a while. The two Willard Wards had a combined Pioneer Day celebration out by Grandpa Adam's house. So her dad, who is either the Activities Committee Chairman, or just on the committee (which one, I'm not sure), asked her to be a Rodeo Clown. She figured it would be much more fun to have someone to play off of and what not, so she asked me if I wanted to be a clown. I figured, "Well, so long as she can make me look like a clown, I think I do a pretty good job of acting like a clown!" So I agreed. And, MAN it was a blast! The best part is after spending all of our energy being clowns, we got to go to a dance and spend all of that energy again! YAY! The dance was fun, but not nearly as fun as the ones at EFY, or the ones that we had here just after I got home from my mission. But all in all, it was a pretty much amazing evening. This is what I looked like as a clown, and another picture of Krystal and I together...
Pretty much, it was awesome. Sunday was GREAT though! I got to take a 2 hour nap right after having a wonderful Sunday lunch at the Guison's house. And they know how to eat good! Mmmm... Well, Vincent gets here tomorrow night, so we will see if I'm have time to post anything for the next 2 weeks or so, but I will try. And if not, in 2 weeks, I'm sure that there will be another huge post like this one covering everything in as little detail as I can possibly handle!
