Although we dressed up as cowboys and indians for district meeting last week in order to have a little more fun for the spirit of Halloween. Pics will be included. :)
well this week is transfers, and i will be staying here in mexia for another six weeks with the same companion. and i actually will be Elder Lovato's last companion his two years will be up at the end of this transfer. hopefully i dont get to homesick because i hear that you get homeisck when you " kill " your companion.
i also went on an exchange to hillsboro. which was pretty fun! i was in a trio again and one of them is a spanish missionary so we taught 2 lessons in spanish and it was weird because i had NO idea what was going on. i still wish i would have been called spanish speaking.
we were expecting someone to come to church but she did not make it. we also are working with the investigators we have. but we have been running low on miles and having a hard time catching investigators to teach them. i hope this week is better.
we carved some pumpkins with members yesterday and that was fun.
my mission president sent this email this week and it was really good so i thought id share it with yall.
"We know that the plan of salvation was laid out in the life before this one. In the great councils of Heaven it was our Father’s plan that we, his children, would come to this earth, become mortal, and experience life so we could become heirs to all that the Father has. Or to be more specific, we can become joint-heirs with Christ “if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” (Roman 8:16-17). While we lived with God in the safety of his presence, we knew that life would be filled with joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. I believe we viewed mortality as a necessary but dangerous and difficult proposition because we would have physical bodies, no memory of our life with our Father and would be placed on earth where, simply put, “life would happen to us.” We would have to deal with sickness, birth defects or injuries that would all be beyond our control. Perhaps we would have to suffer at the hands of another, one of our spiritual brothers or sisters that used their moral agency in a way that would hurt us. This too would be beyond our control. We knew that the elements of the earth would move forward and could hurt us or take our life and we would be powerless to prevent it.
Then there was fear of our own ability to make good choices. Could we resist the physical temptation that our bodies would be exposed to? Could we keep clean, be strong and resist the natural man?
I suppose we knew that we would each have talents and gifts that would help us through life and deal with challenges. I believe we would have hoped that we would be able to count on each other and look to each other for help. I find it hard to believe that we would not have made promises to each other that we would be each other’s keeper.
Through all these experiences I suppose we knew that we could either lose faith and curse God or humble ourselves and turn to him. When left to our own will, would we choose light or darkness? "
sorry this is short but we are going to waco to meet up with other missionaries and play volleyball!
love and miss you all!
Elder Boettcher
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