HEY
HEY EVERYONE!!! Weekly highlights -
- elk burgers... Holy greatness.
Normal burgers will never be the same.
- USED THE GRILLED CHEESE MAKER! I
even cleaned it this time!!! #SorryMom
- Splash Elder Potter's companion
left for home... Meaning he is with us until transfers on Wednesday.... AHHHH
YAAAA!!!! Tripanionship! We get work done! We construct an nba all star weekend
skills challenge course with chairs/tables/ and chalk boards at the church for
morning exercise.
- Hokilia ice... Something like
that, it's a shaved ice place that some members run. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!
Definitely stopping there on our Montana trips in the future.
- was so tired during personal
study one morning I started scrolling on my hard copy of Preach my Gospel as if
it were my iPad... #IPadProbs
- had our final district meeting
before the transfer. It was awesome. Potter led a discussion on working with ward
members then I come in and lead a role play off of what he taught. Splash
Elders had a lil Stockton to Malone going on.
--- Got to chill with the rest of
the BROzeman zone after, haha I love these guys. Got to meet up with Elder Rose
and Okerlund!!! We are pretty tight ever since our ice cream night from a while
back,, those guys are studs! Okerlund is in the Orange tie and Rose is wearing the
green tie, McMahon jumped in to the pic at the last second too, love these guys!
- Dinner at a members house...
they were coug fans... felt good talking football even if it was about
Taysom and the team down south. Biggest highlight was meeting Seth.... Seth
just turned 2 and during all of dinner he and I were talking to each other. Felt like
I was sitting with Z, tough imagining that's how big Z is! Seth also
LOVES Thomas the train, I showed him pictures of Z and his trains. They
would be very good friends, Seth and I are tight! Left with a "go
huskers" as I walked out the door.
- ULEGACY HIT 15K!!!!! Heck yes,
that's awesome! Thanks for all the shout outs everyone. @utecentral your tweet
was awesome, got me laughing pretty good, haha thank you, #MOARmissions. You
guys just wait to see the next one... I have BIG PLANS for #UReturn. Saw a pic
of Z and Chase Hansen and that field house is lookin good (lights on it??)!!
The hill is gonna be rockin Thursday night!
Well another awesome week. This
work is hard, But it is so worth it! Oh man I love it out here!!! It's amazing
how much my testimony has grown, kind of like to think of it as a basketball....
A basketball that isn't fully
pumped is still a basketball. Even if it's a little flat, you can still shoot
it or pass it, maybe dribble it, but it's not being used to its full potential.
My testimony before I came out was
like that deflated basketball. I had one, but it was never fully pumped up. I
never made a true effort to pump it up, at times I was even making decisions
that were deflating it. I could still shoot with it, still pass it, dribbling
was harder than it should have been, but I still could do those things. I just
never did what I needed to, to pump up that ball, and use it for its full
potential.
Despite never doing the things
necessary to pump it up, I still had that basketball. Sometimes it got pretty flat,
yet Heavenly Father never took that basketball from me, even when I wasn't
taking care of it the way I should've.
Then I left for a mission. And
that basketball got pumped up pretty dang fast.
You don't realize how sucky it is
playing with a deflated basketball until you play with one that you just pumped
up. My testimony has expanded so much out here. Blows my mind how awesome this
gospel is, how simple it is, how powerful it is. My basketball has been pumped
up, it's fully inflated because I'm truly experiencing the miracles this gospel
brings. Now that I got the ball, it's game time.
Heavenly Father has had faith in
me, even when I didn't have faith in him. He had faith that someday I would
pump up that basketball, so he let me keep it. He gave me a talent and job that
2 years ago I couldn't even dream of. Gave me a family that continues to grow
and become happier, gave me all of this and had faith that I would still give
it all up for 2 years. He has continually showed faith in me.
Now it's my turn to return the
favor. To show my faith in Him. I can't even comprehend how truly blessed I am.
I want to give him everything, because he has given me everything. Like I said,
it's game time. Time to play my hardest game of basketball I have ever played,
cause now I have that pumped up ball... Just can't play full court
#WhiteBibleProbs 😑
So... Ya transfer calls... I will
be staying here in Belgrade (thank goodness, LOVE BELGRADE) and I have been
asked to be a trainer. Training lasts 12 weeks... I have been out 6... Now I am
a "murry sprtna" so my math isn't that great, but pretty sure that means I'll be
training myself AND a newcomer to the field. Nervous??? Heck ya... I'm training
and I have been out 1 transfer! But once again the Lord is showing his faith in
me, time to get to work, do some training the Elder Pett way... having some fun
and working hard.
It's all clicked for me out
here. Everything makes sense. I know what I need to do. I'm loving it. I love
how many people I meet everyday. Do I still miss my family??? Oh absolutely,
but there's no place I'd rather be. Rumor has it @pettbryan is an emotional
train wreck, he told me "I tear up with pride when I think about you or
watch your videos". Coming from the man that only tears up when re-
watching Stockton's game winner in the WCF... That makes me feel pretty good!!!
You don't have to be a splash
elder to be running a fast break to the Celestial Kingdom with a fully inflated
ball. Heavenly Father has given all of us that ball, we just gotta inflate it,
show our faith in him. And it's through the gospel of Jesus Christ that we can
do this... I don't know what else to tell you guys, just read your scriptures,
pray, go to church, all that stuff, and you will be happy. I promise, it's that
simple.
Do you really think I'd be
missing the biggest opener in the history of Rice Eccles Stadium if this gospel
wasn't true????
I wish I could play that
card while tracting but people here don't realize how much I love the Utes, or
especially love my family, but there is no place I'd rather be than where I am
now. I got the rest of my life to make memories with my family and make videos,
but I only have 22 more months to wear this name tag. Like I said, it's hard,
but I love it. Hearing it gets @pettbryan emotional plucks my heart strings,
but makes me pretty dang happy that I'm up there with "JOHN STOCKTON SENDS
THE UTAH JAZZ TO THE NBA FINALS!!!"
Big week coming up. For all of us!
Elder Potter and I are taking a road trip Tuesday to some small town a couple
hours away where we will spend a few days. SPLASH ELDERS GONNA GET WORK DONE,
SENDING IN THE DELTA TASK FORCE OF THE MISSION!!! Then Thursday, we become
trainers! I'm nervous to train, but pretty stoked! I have strangely been
remembering a lot of German these past few weeks so makes me wonder if I'm
gonna get a German comp some day...
Big night Thursday. I could easily
head over to the bdubs and watch, but not the first impression I want to give
my trainee haha. Utes will do fine, Harbaugh honeymoon is coming to an end!
Enjoy it Ute Nation, I'll be there in spirit! #MakeEmQuit
And last. Shout out to
@TeamBetaAlpha who enters the MTC This week. You're gonna rock it man, can't
wait for all the movie man dates we are gonna have when we get back. It'll be
fun explaining to our wives that we are going on dates with each other and that
they aren't invited. You've been an awesome friend for all our crazy style runs
and stealth ops, those WILL continue in 2 years. Good luck Zach, been an honor
being your director of field ops.
#AutoBotsRollOut #Chilis2For20
Love ya guys!
- Elder K
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