Well it has been another crazy week! I can't believe how
fast this semester is going and will be really upset when it is done and we
lose all of the people here! It was be a different kind of work after that! But
we still have a little while! One of the worst things about this week is that
both of us have been sick. We have both had colds and we don't have time to be
sick or to rest and get better so we are still feeling sick! We will be taking
today real slow though so hopefully we can get better starting now!
It was an eventful
week! The first thing I want to talk about is interviews! We had interviews
with President Killpack this week and they were great. I have grown to really
enjoy interviews. It makes a difference when I feel like I am accomplishing what
I should be. Ha-ha It was a really cool experience this time as President
personally thanked Elder Clark and I for something that we started that quickly
went through the whole mission. It has to do with purification and bringing
ourselves in even greater closeness to God and His laws through self-mastery
and daily accountability. We didn't come up with it but we heard about it,
tried it, reported it to the assistants and they really liked it so they went
around the entire mission (to every companionship) and taught them about it.
President thanked us for that and told us that many of the missionaries have
really been able to become who they should be by doing this. This really works!
This purification is the reason that I am who I am now! It changed my entire
mission and me! It was really cool!
Elder Clark and I had
another cool experience this week as we were able to go and do some service at
the home that President Spencer W. Kimball grew up in! It was so cool to walk
through the childhood home of a prophet of God! They gave us a tour and it was
so cool! We were able to go through the entire house! I will attach some
pictures!
We went on exchanges
this week with Elder Maughan and Elder Johnson. Elder Maughan came with me here
to our area and Elder Clark spent the day with Elder Johnson. This was probably
my favorite exchange thus far as we were able to have a really good time! It
was really cool because Elder Maughan and I were good friends back in August in
the East zone and then he went away but both of us have learned alot of the
same lessons and were able to talk about it for a long time! It was cool to see
the change that has happened in both of us through the Atonement. It was crazy
because everyone thought that Elder Clark was transferred and were freaking
out! Good times!
We had an interesting
experience this weekend at a Multi-stake YSA activity! They had Kainoa's (a
Hawaiian deli that is super good) cater and after dinner they had a lot of
activities including an "Arizona Snowball fight"! It was really cool
and they had 5 stakes of YSA there which includes 3 junior colleges so it was a
lot of fun! It was weird to be there as a missionary because the whole time
they had loud music going (a lot of the songs I didn't recognize) and it felt
like a party! The "Arizona Snowball fight" is a flour fight with hay bales
for hiding behind and everything! It was pretty intense! There was so much
flour floating in the air by the end that they probably could have had a laser
show in it! Ha-ha it was really cool! There was one of our members that broke
his leg trying to jump over a hay bale so that wasn't very fun! But he ended up
crutching his way the mile to church yesterday though! That is dedication and
commitment! I think he is in surgery today!
The rest of the week was good! We have had some good lessons
with Tyler and Chad and also some really cool lessons with Nicole and Larry! I
am so blessed to be able to work with the people that I am! I was also asked to
speak in church yesterday which went ok. I gave a talk on my thoughts of Elder
Holland's talk from conference! It was a good experience but I felt it wasn't
one of my best talks. But it was still good! Things are going good! I hope that
you have all had a great week as well!
Elder Banner
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