Ups and Down in the past week. Haa
On The Up and Ups...
-Week went by faster than the last
-Got to go on an exchange with my homie Elder Ryan Church from the MTC.
-Lost 9 lbs (Stuuuuuuuuuu!)
-Got to talk to the homies DJ NN2k aka Nicky Jam, Springville's finest; Marcus Case, and future teammate Austin Lee
and
-Saved a baby turtle from death on the road.
On The Low...
-Taught close to nothing worth of lessons this past week cause people cancelled
-I might be leaving Aurora (low key okay with it though...)
Thats about it...Haha. I guess the Good outweighs the Bad.
So, thankful for that. At the end of the day, I wouldnt want to be
anywhere other than serving the Lord. I love it so hard right now :)
This past week we did more service than we did lessons cause 1) Our teaching pool is low. and 2)
Those who we are teaching keep cancelling or rescheduling. I think it
may or may not be a sign for me to bounce from this area and its on to
the next one, ya feel me?? Oh well, "I'll go where you want me to go, dear lord" We'll see. But here was my past week...
Tuesday October 16th: Had a good
time getting my Paul Bunnion on (did i spell that right...? Too lazy to
hit spell check haha) Delivered a few truck loads of wood to some
families in the ward and cut some more. For those of you who were like
me in Utah and never had to worry about cutting wood for your stoves or
fireplaces for the winter, its a serious work out haha going ape with an
axe and splitting maul for the good of the members in your ward? What
more could you want!? :) haha its become a very very good habit haha I
was able to cut a tree down with just an axe! Took me a good 45 minutes
or so but i still got the job done!!! YOU KNOW!!! Shout out again to Coach E
up in SLC for the Strength & Conditioning. Haha Muscle memory is
beautiful thing :) We do this pretty much every Tuesday so...sorry for
the repeat from last week haha
Wednesday October 17th: Started the day off
right with some Chastising from our District Leader as always for
District Meeting haha I think only missionaries and Return Missionaries
know what im talking about here. Basically every District Meeting, you
get chewed out for things you're not even doing haha IM OVER IT! After i
went on an exchange with my good ol' chum Elder Ryan Church. Caught up on how mish life has been over the past 6 months on the ride home and had PLANNED
3 lessons for the day...but as i said, that didnt happen haha. We ended
up at my 2nd families house (The Alms) for a bit and for din din. That
was the extent of today...
Thursday October 18th: Had a day full of service
with another member planned for today (Yes...cutting wood) but other
plans for him came up so the idea got scrapped. Couldnt set up anything
else with our investigators or potentials so instead of sitting in our
apartment all day, we went over to my 2nd families house and helped out
around there for the day.
(Sorry that my email's not too entertaining haha continuing...)
Friday October 19th:
Said my goodbyes to the Homie Church and exchanged back today. After
exchanges we headed over to a members house to cut up some more wood.
Now you must be wondering..."Elder Asiata, how does cutting wood help
missionary work" Well let me break it down to you like this. When you're in service to others, you're in service to the lord. Theres
a scripture reference right there but i dont know it exactly haha but
we helped cut wood for the members neighbor and ended up getting a new
investigator out of it. :) Isnt that something!? Funny how that works.
Now, all the people who email me and ask why i waste my time doing
service on my mission (Names withheld) There IS NO EFFORT WASTED.
Some areas and missions teach a million lessons. Some baptized a
million people. Well, thats not my mission or my area. And in my area,
Service is what we do. It may or may not change when i leave but for
now, thats what we do. So dont worry bout it! Haha Okay, im doing
venting...moving on :)
Saturday October 20th: Me and my Comp Owsla (his
last name is Ostler but it sounds like Owsla which is the name of
Skrillex's record label; quick trivia for the day!) went and knocked on a
few doors, talked to a few people and visited a few less-actives during
the day and all that good stuff. Nothing too special to report except
some homeless guy complimented us on looking good in our church clothes
(SWAG) so we gave him 5 bucks and a book of mormon haha. After that, we
went and had dinner with the ALMS.
Sunday October 21st: Just another run of the
mill sunday :) Gotta love the Sabbath, right? After church we met with
our investigator Zach and got things figured out on where to go and when
he should be baptized. We're thinking sometime in November...? Oh well,
hopefully im here. But thats really how i sunday went. Studied until
dinner.
So, pretty exciting week right?? Haha Im sorry my emails havent been up to par on the entertaining
level but as boring as my email sounds, Im enjoying every minute of this
mission :) A few years ago, its the last place i Picture myself but i
feel beyond blessed :)
Last thing before I end this email is im asking please for your Prayers for my good friend Christian Terry. Keep him and his family in your prayers, please. I love you homie! Pull through and keep fighting. I believe in you uso.
Till Next Time
-Elder Isaac Asiata
isaac59asiata.blogspot.com
Last thing before I end this email is im asking please for your Prayers for my good friend Christian Terry. Keep him and his family in your prayers, please. I love you homie! Pull through and keep fighting. I believe in you uso.
Till Next Time
-Elder Isaac Asiata
isaac59asiata.blogspot.com