Highlight of the week came yesterday when the news was on the TV at a member's house, and they were describing why the earth has to be flat, and that it moves because it's supported by four gigantic elephants riding on an even bigger sea turtle swimming through outer space. Argentina is lit.
I passed 6 months in the mission, CRAZY. the time goes by so fast. too fast. It's tradition to burn a tie when you hit 6 months so I found an old one in the apartment that wasn't mine and burned it partly. good stuff.
Our backyard was covered in weeds so we couldn't even walk, so we got it all cleared out so now it looks really nice and we can sip a nice lil mate when we get back to the apartment at nighttime, but we also get eaten alive by all the bugs that are angry because they just became homeless.
Elder Oliveira ate the Chaotic Evil of food: noodles, sauce, and banana. yikes.
On Sunday we had lunch at an investigator's house, and we ate a cow head. It was alright. I ate part of the head meat, also the tongue and the brain. I liked the flavor of the tongue and the texture of the brain. Watching the guy split the cow skull apart with his bare hands was probably the most baller thing I've seen in the mission so far.
This week I listened to a talk I really enjoyed by Elder Holland. He talked about how faith always points to the future. Faith learns from the past, but never longs to stay there. All the greatest things God has planned for us lie ahead of us. We need to have the faith that whatever God has in our future is better than what we are leave behind. He also related in to repentance, how we should forgive and forget past mistakes that have been repented of, both mistakes of others and our own. If it's buried in the past, leave it buried. If you remember, forget it again. "Let people repent, let people grow, believe people can change. Is that faith? Yes. Is it hope? Yes. Is that charity? Yes, above all, it is charity." I really liked that, and in my personal study reading Alma 5:33-34 made me think of this same idea again. Check them out. It's your homework.
Hope you have a great week.
Skeedaddle Skeedoodle,
Elder Jenkins
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