#4-20

Well not much happened this week, it was a good week but not much really special happened! 

In this life we have particular and specific challenges that we need to learn how to overcome, and we need to do it for our self, with the help of others. we need to be patient, line upon line! 

I wish I had more to write but sorry I dont! Some weeks are just long and there really is not much to share! Anyway love you all so much please have a good week! and I will try to also! 

Love Elder Gordon 

Just Another Day

So out of every day this week there are two that really stand out above all the other amazing days. They are Saturday and Sunday! So Saturday there was a craw-fish boil cook off down at the Catholic school, so it was a small fee to get in for all you can eat craw-fish and wow that was so good, I for sure ate to much but o-well, I will live! It was just awesome there were about 20 different vendors cooking and most of them cooked some mean craw-fish! (i will put a picture in it not mine but ya) so when eating craw-fish you take the whole thing in you hands then you rip the tail off and then the head and legs. then you brake open the belly of the craw-fish and pull out the meet and eat it. Its a little bit of work but well worth it! We then went home for a min to change because in the process of eating craw-fish you kinda get messy so we changed back into a white shirt and tie (don't worry I wore the same shirt from last year's craw-fish boil) and then President Horner  picked us up to go see some people and wow that was a blast for sure! We got to see some less actives and then find some new investigators and it was just the best. Then got dinner and went home and straight to bed! Sunday we had church in the morning and we had some less actives come that we have been working with and that is always so good to see! We went out with a member in the high council to go give the sacrament to a older person and while we were out with Brother Burch we went to go see a girl I Baptized 18 months ago and wow that was cool, she has been in a hard place for the last little bit, and we were able to give her a blessing and share the good spirit with her! We then when home and had lunch, a Sunday classic grilled cheese sandwich!!! Then we went out and we saw a less active and we had a good talk with him, and wow this guy was way cool he served in the Navy and he was put in WA for the better part of his service, and I told him I was from Bellingham WA and he was like "no way I love Bellingham" so that was cool, small world! Then the next guy we saw was an investigator, and he was 100% blind! but wow what a cool guy we were talking with him for a while, and we got to hear his story about how we became blind and it was like in his 20s when it happened and he just had the best attitude about it and was being quit funny with us. We were talking about how he loved to cook and bake and my companion asked "so how do you measure then ingredients?" and without missing a beat he goes " with a measuring cup how else!!!" I was just about on the ground dying (you really have to know my comp to really understand why it was so funny) but it was just too funny! We then went to go see a older member in the ward that has been unable to come because of health and that was awesome to see her and bring her company and on our way out she gave us some Gumbo so ya bomb! Anyway my week was for sure bomb. I love this work, I can often say I have the best job, or at lest the most satisfying job, because it is truly  the best to see not just the growth in others but in me!  Anyway I love you all so much have a good week!

Love Elder Gordon

Week so and so...

Not much happened this week, we had EX's with the Zone Leaders. and that was fun I got to go back to my last area and see people. The elder I was with gave a spiritual thought that I really liked. so I am going to give it to y'all!

Going The Extra Mile!  OK so in the end of Alma (alma 60), Caption Moroni wrote a epistle (letter) and in short it says. HAY I need help out here will you please send me more troops! He's mad because he beat the Lamanites and took over a city but because if his lack of troops, they took it back. OK so I am not going to talk about Caption Moroni because we already know how baller he is, but I am going to talk about the person in this story that is not mentioned. The messenger that took the letter to the Pahoran (the chief judge)> so the messenger took the letter all the way to Zarahemla. And once he got there, he saw that the land was overthrown and that Pahoran was not there and that he went into hiding. So the messenger could have easily just turned around and gone back to Caption Moroni and told him that we are Doomed! But no he does not he goes the extra mile and he looks for Phoran and he finds him, gives him the letter and then they come up with a plan to take back Zarahemla and then get the troops to Caption Moroni. They did and it worked and they ended up over taking the Lamaites. all because this messenger was willing to go the extra mile. 

So I ask all y'all to go the extra mile, whether it be with work, your family, church activity! I know it is hard to go the extra mile, I love to do the bare minimum. but we are not going to be happy just doing the bare minimum! 

Love you all!
 have a good week love elder Gordon

PS My little brother drove 4/12 hours to spend 30 minutes with me while he had a 12 hour layover in Texas, coming home from his Spring Break trip! It was a great surprise to see him.

Easter Baby!

Conference. Elder Larry Y. Wilson talked about this and I loved it and wanted to share it in my words so... Don't just follow in the footsteps of others hold to the iron rod with full strength. It's easy to just follow in the steps of others on a sunny day but when the storms from the tempest overcome you and cloud your view and you can no longer see where you're going and before you know it you don't know where you're at. The iron rod is no longer in sight. People can also lead you astray as well if you follow others and they have different priorities than the church or the gospel they will leave the iron rod and you will follow them away into the darkness. Hold fast to the iron rod for yourself, help others to hold fast as you do, do the best you can to press forward!

OK SO January 1,  my mission started a 90 day book of Mormon challenge, and it ended this past Saturday!! And wow that was cool. First off I did not think I could do it, because the first time I read the Book of Mormon it took about 16 months> that's 486 days!!! And I was going to do it in 90 days that's 396 day less then the first time. But I was pumped up so I committed to do it and I did! I read the Book of Mormon in 90 days. And we were not just to read the book we were to mark every time we read Jesus Christ, Faith, Repentance, Baptism, and Enduring to the end. It was not easy but it was for sure satisfying!  I can still say without a doubt that it's the word of God through and through! 

OK so last District meeting we did a role play on Bible referral and how to do them better. So that evening we went out and we were looking for a bible referral and WOW it was so dope, this guy asked us, if he could have a Book of Mormon also, we had a good talk with him and his son it was fun for sure and I am pumped to go back! 

 Well that was my week and I am sticking to it! 

Love you guys,

 

Love Elder Gordon