"Rambling"
This week has been slow once again!
The heat down here really isn't that bad but the summer has been hard just
because there is not much that we can do! We did go through our part of the YSA
ward and clean out the ward list, we found out the like twenty people we have
on our list no longer live there! So that is what we did with that! Also, we
did have a huge activity with them on Saturday! The YSA ward rented out an
indoor rock climbing place called the bloc! It was so cool! And we even got
permission to join them! It was so funny to do the rock climbing in full Pros
(Shirt, tie, pants, everything)! They did give us shoes which was good and
helped… a lot! Ha-ha
The walls there are the highest
bouldering walls you can have. Bouldering involves no ropes at all; they have
giant mats at the bottom! It was so much fun and super intense! They had some
places where you were climbing upside down and some where you had to jump to
the next hold (especially if you are short like me)! It was such a fun
experience! Sadly, I didn't get pictures of me and Elder Bradley on the wall
itself, we were too busy climbing it! But I do have a few of the place itself
that I can send!
After rock climbing for a few hours
we all went to Bishop Bell's house and had a BBQ there! It was great and we had
some awesome hot dogs and food there! After that was a giant pool party at his
house as well! This we couldn't do.....dang it! ha-ha. So us, and a few of the members that didn't
really want to swim, went to the other side of the lawn and played
volleyball....for like 4 hours.....wearing full pros.........in the thick
humidity (it rained hard that morning).......and by the end all of us were
dying! Ha-ha. We lost the will to do
anything and for the last half hour we basically just kind of stood there and
threw the ball back and forth! Ha-ha
It was so much fun! It was an
awesome day!
Other then that I do not have lots
of things to tell or a lot of stories to share. But there are some things that
I can talk about real fast before my time is up! One thing that is really
interesting, as far as my experience goes; concerning a mission, is the
opposites involved. Out here on the mission you have some of the greatest and
most amazing experiences that you will ever have; which will most often than
not be followed soon after by some of the hardest things you have gone through!
You will also meet some of the most amazing and exceptional people; and some of
the best friends you will have while you are on the mission, and you will also
meet some terrible people out here! And I'm not talking non members or anything
like that; I mean members and other missionaries especially! I always thought I
would get along with everyone and all that good stuff but I have met other
missionaries in the MTC and also missionaries out here that I just can't stand
to even really talk to them! And I'm not the only one; everyone knows who those
missionaries are! We have had to be doing a lot with one of them recently which
is probably why I am spending so much time talking about this! Really missions
are full of these opposites! Everyone says that the mission is the best two
years! Which is true, but also, depending on your mission, it can be the
hardest two years you will ever have! But we cannot taste the sweet without the
bitter!
I do love being out here and these
have been some of the best months ever but it is not all yippy skippy like a
lot of people say! But this mission is perfect for me and I am learning a lot!
I don't have lots of crazy experiences that I share or anything like that
because a lot of what happens really wouldn't mean that much to anyone but me.
One thing a mission does is give you the opportunity to learn about yourself
and to grow! My strengths as well as all my weaknesses have been shown to me
and I now can do work on those things that I am lacking! Sorry I am just
rambling! Sometimes I just have to ramble! ha-ha
Well I hope things are going well
for all of you!
Till next time!
Elder Banner
