Tuesday, February 28, 2023

I'm weaker physically, but stronger spiritually

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Last night me and Elder Rigby hit maxes on the bench press and I regret to inform you that my max is now 145. I dropped 20 pounds :(. . .and then i weighed our stuff- the 15 pound bar only weighs 13.6 pounds and the 25 pound plate was only 24.3. So I dropped even more than that!

There's probably a great spiritual principle I could connect it to- but I’m feeling gracious today so you can come up with it on your own.

I don't remember too much else that happened this week. But it was a tuff tough week. We set so many goals and it was like “ya! This week will be so good!” I was doing all my morning workouts and drinking so much water and listening to the voice of the prophet every day and writing down all those things i'm grateful for. . .and then this week was just so difficult. So much rain. Our friends who have goals to be baptized next week ghosted us. So many appointments fell through. The only nice guy from the many many many homes we tracted gave us tea and then left. So then we had to go throw the tea away. 

Oh! And we had a lot of ASL lessons and meals and I have started sending out ASL videos to a bunch of random people on facebook (deaf people of course) . It's really frustrating sometimes how hard it is to form a sentence in ASL. I KNOW the SIGNS. When I watch other people Sign i can understand them but when I try it’s so difficult. But it's ok. I’m trying to try my best.

And Elder Rigby was sick on one of the days so I listened to like 20 President (and Elder) Nelson Talks. In his first one as an apostle he said there had been 84 (latter day) apostles before him! That's crazy but I guess it makes sense. That's just a lot of apostles. He also shared that when he was announced as an apostle his daughter went into labor, like, from being surprised hearing here dad was gonna be an apostle. So funny. 

Well, I set a goal to listen to the prophet's voice every day and it's been nothing but good and enlightening. You should do it too. It's super cool and will help you prepare for general conference. 


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