We got to watch Conference finally! Something I really liked was when President
Uchtdorf was telling everyone that we need to be grateful IN our circumstances. (talk link) Not being grateful for THINGS, but having a heart full of gratitude. It made me
ponder on all those times difficult things came my way, and some of the time I
may not have been as grateful as I should've been. Gods giving us experiences
to make us into HIS instruments. So why are we complaining about our
circumstances? Sure, there not too pleasant to go through. But think about who
you'll become AFTER. God always has that Eternal perspective, yet we seem to
lack that. We all can do better at putting on our "Eternal spectacles" to say,
and look at life how God views it. That way we can have that heart full of
gratitude continuously as President Uchtdorf spoke on. Elder Ballards talk on
FOLLOWING up was good as well. ( talk link ) When Bishop Gary Stevenson was talking on Our 4
minutes and speaking about all the athletes, It made me excited for some reason. :) (talk link) Then they showed the photos of Noelle
Pikus-Pace, and Torah Bright. Elder Skouson and I both looked at each other and
smiled. Even at the
end when President Monson was speaking, ( talk link) he said something that stuck out to me.
He said,"Avoid destroying someone else's confidence." I can't remember what the
rest of his talk was on, but it made me think. Not always do we think about the
comments we make either jokingly or bluntly, and how it'll effect the person
we're directing it towards. It's something I'll take a better look at when I'm
speaking about someone or to someone else. Even when someone makes you upset
and you want to say something, take the motherly advice of, "If you can't say
anything nice, don't say anything at all." That's when Charity comes into play.
I'm still trying to understand this topic well, but I feel since its the PURE
love of Christ, we need to Act how he would act in all situations.
Yes I use my Electric
shaver everyday, and yes I use the hair clippers now. Our apartment runs
off a generator so we have power from 7pm until 10:30. Our lights don't just
attract bugs either. Seems like you turn the gen on, wait 30 minutes, open the
back door, and there's the whole community waiting to charge their phones on our
one outlet out back. It's not THE WHOLE community, but A LOT of people show
up on our porch. There's nothing we can do about it either. We're the light on
the hill where no other lights are, so we stick out like a sore thumb.
This week we had our exchange with Kakata Elders, so we left soon in the
morning on Tuesday, got back to our area in Harbel around 2 or 3ish, ate lunch,
then went and did our service project. One of the funnest projects I've ever
done. Our neighbors shower room was looking like garbage, so we asked if we
could fix it up for them. We had left used zinc from our leaking roof that they
changed out, so we figured we could put it to good use. Anyway, what we did,
was hiked down through the bush small, found some tall bamboo, chopped down 3,
and then carried them back to the house. These bamboo pieces were like 30-40
feet long. And maybe 4-5 inches in diameter. No small bamboo! When we got
back, we pulled out the existing bamboo, dug better holes, pounded the newly cut
bamboo in, then we nailed the zinc pieces back on and made it look nice. We
made it as nice as rusty old zinc can look, but its all organized and layered
nicley on the bamboo, so it looks nice! Now It's high enough that no one will
be able to see them as they're showering. The walls are like 6 to 7
feet high, and they aren't taller then 5' 4". Works perfectly. You don't even
know when someones in there anymore! Really fun project to do.
This coming week, we'll be having zone conference to get our counsel from
President Kirkham and the AP's. We're all excited for it. So, we'll be going
back in town tomorrow, spending the night, then coming back and will start
proselyting on Thursday. The life of living in the bush........ I'll try to
write more next week about our investigators, but this week there wasn't
anything that stood out. Sorry....
Have a great week. Love you all!
Elder Zaugg
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