What's good Fam!?!?
6 months down as
of last week. Time flies when you are living in a trailer, ballin with your
splash elder, flarping with your bishop, kicking rocks with a stud from AZ, and
tracting in 18 below with Chewbacca(I explain later). Gotta love being a
missionary.
- found 2 sweeeeeeet Mickey Mouse ties at the thrift
store. 1 buck each. I was pumped, still am. Freakin love that mouse. Elder
Asbury still thinks I have a serious problem.
- Witnessed possibly the greatest play room ever. It's
practically a 1970's man cave. Old games, ping pong table, magnetic football,
tinker toys, you name it! I was in Heaven. They said if we weren't on missions
they'd be blasting classic rock from the speakers... "What kinda classic
rock???" I ask. "Queen, Bob Seger..." They didn't have a chance
to list anymore as I started freaking out and was on the verge of tears of
happiness. The DeStaffany's are #goals for when I'm 60+ years old. I'll
definitely be going back after the mission.
- also made a cake in a mug at the #DStaffs
- Had some crazy fog one day, felt like Up.
- #Tracting🚜💨 one night and I asked Elder Asbury why he was only wearing one glove.... His response "cause I'm Anakin" ... #WellPlayed.
We're still a little obsessed with the new Star Wars
movie, not being able to see it is causing some psychological harm if you
haven't noticed. Some 12 year olds in the library were about to say what
happened... I yelled "THATS IT IM OUT" I booked it outta there, I'm
talking like a 3.2 40 speed.... WHILE WEARING PROS, #CallMeKaelin. My Helaman
8's are good for running. made it out safe although people probably thought I'm
nuts, got some weird looks. #CrisisAverted
- we spend a lot of time driving. Big area. And one
particular long drive we somehow came to the conclusion Big Foot is a Wookie
that escaped Kashyyk.
- we are strictly told that the junior companion of a
district leader is TO NOT have a "title"... so since Elder Asbury is my copilot when we drive he is now reffered
to as my "Chewbacca". You can call me Elder Solo.
- We each roll a dice at the end of comp study to see how
our unity is... Have yet to both get the same number but it's the thought that
counts.
- our WML's kid just got home from his mission. You can
definitely tell he just got home haha. We talked with him quite a bit, I think
he enjoys having someone to talk missionary humor with.
- Bishop opened up about his concerns with not knowing
what a "hashtag" is during priesthood.
- Had dinner with the bishop and his family yesterday. Shooting
hoops which eventually led to the most violent game of 21 I have ever seen.
Briggs kids go hard, kinda scared me. They play some physical ball. Made 5:30
basketball look like rainbows and unicorns... Any of you familiar with 5:30 basketball know it is far from rainbows and
unicorns, Elder Boyd and I still have battle scars.
- vid of @pettbryan singing Rock Band made Asbury spit
yogurt out everywhere he was laughing so hard. I think you're a good singer
dad.
Yep, good week. Book of Alma continues to hype me up.
Read about the story of Amalackiah and how he cunningly got a bunch of
Lamanites to go to war. Kinda like the time someone I know cunningly copied a
bunch of Jeep keys before the owners left for South America #NeverForget...
Amalackiah did it extremely deceitfully but not gonna lie
I was impressed, so he gets the army and convinces them to kill all the
Nephites. Then chapter 48 we find out what's goin on on the other side of the
ball...
Alma 48: 7 - Now it came to pass that while Amalickiah
had thus been obtaining power by fraud and deceit, Moroni, on the other hand,
had been preparing the minds of the people to be faithful unto the Lord their
God.
*****Second it mentioned Moroni I pictured Vince Carter
walking off the court of the dunk contest shaking his arms and shaking his head
... "It is over."
Ya, it was over pretty quick, I like to call the next few
chapters the #MakeEmQuit chapters. Talks about how Moroni strengthened the weak
parts of his army both physically and spiritually, a true leader. Gave me an
idea of the type of district leader and trainer I want to be.
Then we also have one of the most BA (I'm sorry mom but
that term is 100% applicable for this verse) scriptures in the Book of Mormon
in that chapter.
17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had
been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of
hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over
the hearts of the children of men.
... I wanna be like Moroni!!! He makes the
Lamanites quit AND the adversary. He's money.
Unfortunately I wasn't quite on Moroni's level all this
week haha. It started slow and it was rough, just nothing was working. Out
tracting one night and one lady told me
to be careful that I'm preaching truth, she was lookin for a bash sesh... Lady,
I'm in sub zero Conrad Montana away from my newborn nephew and you
wanna tell me to be careful that what I'm teaching is true??? You honestly
think I'd be out here if it wasn't true. I was a lil fired up, not gonna lie.
Elder Asbury cooled me down. Hour goes by and last house the dude opens and
says "well you 2 boys are gonna get cold out there". I'm thinking
heck ya finally a dude that sympathizes
for us, he's gonna let us in, we're gonna teach a lesson, tonight's gonna be
a....
*DOOR SLAMS
You serious Clark??? Really??? Was thinking of things
@pettbryan would say and/or gesture then I remembered I can't do that as a
missionary.
This is just part of the work and I get that, I have been
doing it for 6 months but dang it was frustrating this week. So ya,
that was the first 6 days of the week in a nut shell haha. All about love out
here and I was struggling loving the people that turned us down and were jerks
about it. Then I remembered why I'm out here and who I represent.
If Christ
could love those that didn't like him, I can do the same.
Then a much needed Sabbath showed up. In all honesty I
think Sunday's prepare me for the upcoming week than Monday's. Ward council was
a total crack up, most of it was spent talking about a February potluck.
Got to speak in sacrament meeting which is fun, Will
Thompson was also speaking while I was speaking - mainly counting out loud. He
reminds me so much of Z haha. Brother Scown taught a sweet lesson in
Priesthood, and honestly just seeing Brother Weisgram makes me happy, just a
super awesome old dude with big glasses haha. Played basketbrawll with the
Briggs and Sister Briggs made some dang good tacos. Then the rest of the night
we just visited members.
We were guided to 2 members particularly. Plan was to teach
the restoration but we had awesome gospel discussions instead. Ended up giving a blessing
to one brother. And in the other home the sister was tearing up the whole
lesson. She insisted we gave her a hug (she was older don't worry) and I
wasn't saying no. Heck I needed a hug too, sometimes you just need a hug from
someone who isn't a 18 year old dude. We were guided to that house for both her
and us.
I really do love this work. It can suck I won't argue
that, but we are so close to success , I can feel it. It's a grind, but moments
like last night make it worth it.
Been thinking a
lot about the video I started working on a year ago.
2014 season highlight vid. I'm a nUrd I know. Talks about the inches all around us that are
necessary for the win. Gotta fight for that inch. Look at the guy (for me it's
Chewbacca) next to you, look into his eyes and see a guy who will go that inch
with ya. That's misisonary work right there. Gotta fight for every inch. Some
of you know I was fired up making that vid a year ago, well it turned out
alright. I'm fired up a year later to get that inch, just gotta make sure that
fire is the Spirit of God and not me Clark Grisswold'ing it while #Tracting🚜💨,
#WheresTheTylenol #JellyOfTheMonth
Read the Book of Mormon, it's where it's at. Be Moroni.
Watch Utah Football 2014 season highlight vid, you'll see what I mean. Fight
for that inch.
Love ya,
- Elder K
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