11 more months...

ok so the past week has been packed with fun, spiritual stuff, boring and mind blowing knowledge, so first the fun... We went on a hike up in Mississippi and it was way cool, there were these waterfalls, that we had hear about and wanted to go see. We hiked down a trail for about a mile then we came to a river and we just had to walk down the river and kinda climb around and it was really fun.

On Wednesday we went to the temple which is always super awesome!  I went with some elder from around the area that I have not seen for a while and a sister missionary that had gone home awhile ago and she was here showing her mom and dad around LA, but i was fun to see them! BUT the spiritual highlight of the week was on Saturday.We had a big meeting in Baton Rouge with Elder Jörg Klebingat, (from the quorum of 70) and he talked to us for 4 hours about a lot of things, not really how to be better missionary but how to be better disciples! It was awesome! He gave us statistics about how 10 years down the road this many missionaries  will be less active and what he was doing was trying to prevent that. He talked about who we should marry!!! But he made a long 4 hour meeting into one that felt like it ended way to fast, which for me is hard to do, he had this really good story where this church leader had come to this meeting, and when he had gotten there, people were just kinda sitting all around, and he started by asking them to all move to the center of the chapel,  some did it without question,  others did it with complaint and others just did not move! He was bothered by the ones that did not listen so he got up and said, you guys are not ready for what I have to say and he left. So right before elder Klebingat had told this story he had all of the elders that were in the front rows get up and move so the sister's could sit up front! I was kinda bothered by this because I had gotten there early and I had a good spot in the 3rd row and I was on the edge so I could have plenty of space.  When I had to move I was now sitting way in the back with two elder's a little too close for my comfort and I was behind a kid that kept moved his head back and forth way too often and I couldn't see the speaker without moving my heard around each time he moved his head.  But then I thought about it and I realized that it was not about me right then and there, it was about learning, and all I had to do was listen and pay attention! Once I got that down and threw my head into it the meeting turned into a awesome meeting!!!!!   Other than that I am getting transferred to Morgan City tomorrow morning!!! so wish me luck!!!

LOVE ELDER GORDON