Do you
remember the picture of the "No Pooping" sign that I sent last week.
That is actually a real problem... Just this morning, about 20 minutes ago on
the walk over to this internet cafe, we saw a man on the side of the road with
his pants around his ankles... squatting haha. I am not sure if you want to put
this up on the blog but I thought it was pretty funny :)
I
think the Hare Krishna guy is way nice, they always are. The only problem is
when they believe everyone is correct - but everyone has conflicting doctrine.
There has to be a line drawn somewhere. He enlightened us on a lot of
interesting things about their beliefs that I didn't know before. I see a lot
of good ideas in what they believe and I really think that their faith makes
people better than if they had no belief at all in God.
The
Youth Genealogy thing looked super successful. Where was it held? I don't
recognize the place. Maybe it is Dad's office? I have no clue:) I have been
trying to learn more about Family History work and I would like to help some of
our members learn how to do it. The only problem is that I don't really know
how to do it myself. I know how to search through your existing family tree to
find people who are ready for baptism, but I am not too sure what to do when
you don't have a tree. One of our members is retired and we tried to set up an
account for him. We went through the steps to create an account and we typed in
all the information about his grandparents that he remembers. Now we have a
family tree that is 2 or 3 generations big and we don't know what to do from
here. I assume we now have to start calling different cities and emailing
churches where the relatives were born or where they grew up asking for the
records to be sent to us... right? I am not too sure, but as I have been
reading through some older Liahonas (from the early 2000's) there are lots of
cool stories about family history work. Maybe you can shed some light on the
subject?
This week we had a good week. We visited a few different members. The member that sent you the picture of me in a scout uniform gave me a little lapel pin that has the Scout logo and motto on it:) Всегда Готов (Vsegda Gotov) "Always Ready". He also gave me an old Soviet Union pocket watch. I held it up and asked him how much it cost. He said "Oh it doesn't run, you can just take it". I didn't ask any questions haha I just took it:) After replacing the battery, everything works great and it is a pretty cool piece of history.
Another
day we visited the member who we were helping do Family History Work and he saw
the scout pin that I had gotten. He said "Hold on, I want to give you
something" he then went into another room, and when he came back he had in
his hands 2 lapel pins and 2 fresh onions. He grew the onions himself and he
was very proud:) He is one of my favorite members.
On
another day we went to visit our investigator and helped him work on a project
for his work. We are going to sing for his video he is making and this video is
to help kids believe in God. Its like the D.A.R.E. Program back at school.
Don't do drugs, don't drink alcohol, believe in God, all good things. He is on
his 3rd or 4th video and they are really popular.
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They have these water pumps scattered all around the city. They are free pumps for people to wheel big jugs and fill them up and take them home to their houses. Some houses don't have running water which is why they are so common.
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This
week was pretty good:) We are all trying to figure out what the transfers will
be because we have lots of new missionaries flying in and not a whole lot of
open spots. Most missionaries are already training someone right now, so it
will be very interesting to see how everything works out:)
This week
I realized something important. Gratitude is very important. The 29th verse of
Doctrine and Covenants section 59 has been stuck in my head for a while:
21 And in nothing doth man offend God, or against
none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his
hand in all things, and obey not his commandments.
Thinking
about this verse in a very real sense makes it very apparent that gratitude is
one of the things I need to work on most of all. We should confess his hand in
ALL things. I love the quote by President McKay:
"Let us realize
that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the
love of work is success!" Even when we work with our own hands it is
thanks to God and isn't anything that we did on our own without his help.
Love you all,
Elder Gardner
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