So teaching this week was actually pretty good. The youth we baptised were all able to receive the priesthood and now they are passing and doing a bunch of stuff the young men do. Julian, the man we baptized, blessed the sacrament with me on sunday so that was pretty cool for him. He was nervous about messing up but I told him everyone messes up so its fine. He did if perfectly and the meeting went great. So we had a record high of church attendance! 70 people with 10 investigators and 10 Less-actives. The last missionaries that were here put that as a goal a long time ago and yesterday we finally achieved it. Go us haha.
Other than that we really didnt do a whole lot. We did play a lot of Dominoes and Cards in our free time. The missionary from St. Lucia, Elder Joseph, is crazy good at dominoes and he basically destroys the other team every time but Im getting better. Other than that though hes not that great at cards. They tell me Im only good at cards because im from Las Vegas. haha who knows :)
Anyways, earlier this week President Nuckols was talking to the missionaries and what he said stuck with me a little bit. He said that there are only 3 reasons for disobedience, whether it be commandments, or other rules. People are lacking conversion, lacking knowledge, or lacking motivation, basically people are either Faithless, Clueless, or just Lazy. Or a mix of them. I took an inward look at myself and asked, "what am I letting slide?" It is hard to judge ourselves and hard to see the things we are lacking in, but if we do it, and then take initiative to fix it, the better off we all are. I challenge everyone to look at themselves and this week, try to change for the better.
I hope everyone has had an amazing week! I hope everyone stays safe and doesnt get caught in a riot or something cause Trump won the election
Love y'all!
Elder Larkin
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