A Plethora of Interruptions 4/27/2020

To any missionaries on my email list that have gone home: Let me know if I need to change the email I send things to.

Tuesday not much happened. One of the major highlights came while we were teaching a lesson. As the title of the email says, we were interrupted during a lesson by J and her friends. They made posters for us and gotten balloons (see pictures below). It was awesome to see her in person because we don't get to see many people and the posters were awesome.

On Wednesday we had Zone Confrence over zoom. It was a little sad to not be there with everyone but it was still awesome. One thing that President Call said talked about stuck out to me. He talked about Joseph Smith and his experience in Liberty Jail found in D&C 121 and 122. In despair Joseph cries out "O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?". In response to his cries God responds "my son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment and then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes". It was a reminder to me that in the scale of eternity, this quarantine won't be long and if I am faithful and work hard, I will be blessed.

Later God says to him "and if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he? Therefore, hold on thy way". After remembering the suffering that Jesus Christ went through in behalf of us all, my pains and sorrows seem insignificant in comparison and I can keep going.

In those last 2 paragraphs, feel free to substitute "I" and "my son" with you own name because it is all true for each one of you just as it was for Joseph Smith and for me.

Sunday was pretty exciting. One of the exciting things that happened was we had another surprise visitor to our apartment while we were in a lesson. All the sudden we some guy walking up and dropping off a bag of something and waving and walking off. It was our apartment inspector who came to give us a prize for having the cleanest kitchen and refrigerator. The other thing that happened Sunday was that we had a lesson with a missionary that had returned home named Elder C. He had gotten back recently from serving in Derwood ward which was the ward I went to for 17ish years before they moved us to another ward. Shout out to the Highams for being the first name that he asked me if I knew in the ward. The funny thing was that he left just after I did so we almost swapped places.

Miracle of the Week: The wards in our area have scheduled a bunch of lessons for us this week which is going to be awesome!

Quote of the Week: "Welcome Captain Honky Tonk!"

Pictures (hopefully in order):

1-2. A drop off from J thanking us

3-4. Memes