#70 调动 diàodòng (Transfers)

Hello everyone! As you can guess from the title of my email we are having transfers this week! I will be staying in the Las Posas area and I will be with E. Jensen, the only other Mandarin speaking elder in the mission. Revelation is crazy that way. Anyway it has been a pretty crazy week balancing two wards. On Sunday we got to attend three different sacrament meetings, they were all super powerful and insightful. For those curious about my ankle it is not broken but is pretty badly damaged, Urgent care put me in a boot and President Carter has me doing Ice Baths once a day, it should heal quickly.

 

 

One thing that I have learned this week is the importance of working where there is progress. For example, this week we had two very different experiences, the first was a lesson with the Adame family yesterday, in which they basically told us they don't plan on getting married anytime soon, which was super frustrating as we felt we had made such great progress with them. I have been working with them since I got in the field and they really have not progressed at all.

 

 

The second experience was with a girl named Jordan, who we are teaching in the Las Posas area, we invited her to church and she was super excited to show up, she showed up and afterwards told us about how much better it made her day and how it had really helped her. She was so enthusiastic about the gospel and the spirit she had felt. She will probably get baptized once she moves into our ward. 

 

 

The two big differences in these experiences are the willingness to act. They have both been offered invitation after invitation, Jordan on one hand took the commitments and is seeing the blessings, the Adame's however don't have the necessary faith to act.

 

 

Now everyone, please be a doer of the word, not just a sayer, please be the ones that keep the commitments you have been given. Be loyal to the things you promise to do and do them wholeheartedly. 

 

 

Fun story: So this week President Carter asked me to start doing ice baths on my foot. But the first day we did not have any ice in our ice trays, but we did have a frozen chicken, so we used that instead. Anyway it made for some pretty good photos. 

 

 

Love you all!

Larson 长老

 

 

Pictures!

1. My foot and the chicken

2. My snazzy new boot

3. My Mandarin tag from Aswell trophy