New area, New me. Not actually lol- it's still the same me. However, I did get a new area.
After spending a year and a half in the same apartment, going to the same Walmart, the same Wendy's, same church building– I'm finally in a new city. It's called…. Saratoga
I cover a big english ward that's all white people (hoping to get some भारत in there) as well as a massive ysa ward that covers a third of the mission (why have all my areas been unmanageably massive?)
New apartment is nice, there's a friend growing in the sink so I'll have to take care of that…
We have a sick gym, so your brothers getting buff. We have like…no food.
Anyways. We went out and worked and….wow. Elder Millard is a legend. He is running after people and yelling across the road and doing whatever it takes to talk to these people. And when he does- they listen. I listen to cuz I'm tryna learn from this guy.
He only weighs 120 pounds, he eats more than me, he was a soccer referee, he wants to be a mechanical engineer, He's from Bountiful. Pretty cool.
We've been running into Indians every day. I get to use my Hindi often. I haven't been able to use ASL yet though…
Being a zone leader is cool. I have 4 elders and 7 sisters… so this will be fun.
I set a goal to memorize 1 scripture every day. I didn't think it was possible…but so far it's working! It's been super cool to have one scripture every day that's just the theme of the day.
I'm still reminding myself this is a new area and it's weird. Nothing here is familiar, it's all new and strange. It's super exciting but also really stressful. After 21 months this is like… my first time actually getting transferred.
So I don't know what to write lol.
However, this week I finished Job. I feel sorry for everyone who hasn't had a similar experience to mine with Job. I don't know how anybody could not love reading Job. Anybody who has read it and understood half of it won't ever really need to ask “why do bad things happen to good people?” unless maybe they go through a really tough trial. Then maybe they can ask.
Anyways. Here's one really cool piece of treasure from Job.
Remember In the beginning he had 7 sons and 3 daughters.
A house blows over and kills them all..a bunch of other awful things happen to Job. His friend tease him for like 3 rounds of silly debate. God speaks through a whirlwind and tells all of them (including Job) to repent and then all of Job's blessings are doubled.
He ends up with twice as many camels, sheep, donkeys, oxen, and so on.
However in 42:13 we see he got 7 sons and 3 daughters…..? What?
Why not 14 and 6?
Well. It's because families are forever. Even though the other 7 are dead- he DOES now have 14 sons. Even though the 3 daughters are dead he DOES now have 6 daughters.
So it was doubled.
Pretty cool right?
Email me please.
Keep the fire burning (Levi 6:13)
Elder Owens
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