One
fun thing about my birthday here, June 1st, is that it's National
Children's Day. Last year on Maio, I thought it was a big deal, but MAN.
Here in Praia was a different story. I'm pretty sure 90% of the
population here went and hit up the beach. Relatively nothing was open
:P it was fun though :)
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| Yet another selfie with Elder Penner (if we could only read his mind...."Stop with the selfies Massey...enough already!) |
This was a pretty
happening week. We had Zone Conference on Tuesday, and since Maio makes
up a part of the zone, we got to have the two elders from there come in
for a bit, and they got to hang out with us. It was a lot of fun for me,
because I got to go on a division with Elder Cannon, who also started
on Maio, and is only on his 3rd transfer. It reminded me of a year ago
when I, on my third transfer, got to see civilization for the first time
to come to a Zone Conference. It kinda let me look in a mirror from a year
ago. It was a lot of fun. We got to have them stay in our house a couple
nights, and I basically had to hide from Elder Cannon telling stuff
about Star Wars to the other elders. It was torture.
Zone
Conference rocked. President taught us about repentance and its role in
help our investigators not only baptize in the church, but become
converted. Sister Mathews taught us about how we need to be tools (but
not in a bad way :P haha), that we aren't the teacher, but it's the Holy
Ghost who does it. All in all it was a lot of fun. President tried to
get me to sit next to him at lunch but I sorta ran and sat by Elder
McMullin. Didn't want him to get mad at me for me shoes like he usually
does :P hahaha.
For my birthday on Wednesday,
we showed up to the office for a meeting we had with President and
Sister Mathews, and the Alvarez couple, and when I'd showed up, Sister
Mathews presented me with a birthday cake she made for me. I was
shocked. I had to wait til after the meeting to eat it, but it was
awesome. Sister Mathews is the bomb. After we celebrated with a bacon
pizza, we did some teaching, and met up with our ward mission leader and
the Sisters in our ward for correlation, to which the Sisters made me
ANOTHER cake, and Chidu, our ward mission leader, brought a two liter of
Vimto. It was so powerful. My birthday, though not perfect, ended out
really solid :) I got home pretty darn happy that night. Just made it
even better that I got so many spoils to enjoy in my package. MY MOM IS
THE BEEEST :D
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| The birthday package explosion... |
We've been able to teach Adalei
more this week, and MAN is he amazing. We were teaching him the plan of
salvation, and started to talk about the resurrection, to which he
interrupted us and said, "yeah, sorry to interrupt, but that just
reminds me of a scripture I read in the Book of Mormon, that says,
'every knee shall bow and every tongue confess the Christ' ". I had to
stop myself from having my jaw straight up drop in our lesson. When we
taught him the Word of Wisdom, he was like, "my dad always taught me
never to use those things. He said they cause harm". It's amazing how
incredibly prepared he his. He showed up to a conference we had on
Sunday at 7am, when church didn't start til 10am. Granted, he forgot we
didn't have regular church at 8:30am, but still, he ended up spending 5
hours sitting at church on Sunday. He's a BOSS. He's still looking
really good for baptism this Saturday. It's an incredible tender mercy
we've had, to be able to teach him.
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| At Stake Conference on Sunday |
One funny
thing from this week, when we had the Maio Elders over to our house,
they saw a Jelly Belly game I got in my package that has identical jelly
beans of good and awful flavors. Elder Cannon had seen it before, and
taught us all how to play, and it was hilarious. I got to try jelly
beans like dog food, vomit, rotten eggs, and baby wipes. Elder Penner
got the worst though, he got every single bad flavor :P hahaha. It was a
good prank to play on the APs, I put them on my desk the next day, and
when they came in, Elder Mendenhall was like "SWEET!" and popped a jelly
bean into his mouth, and then looked at me in horror, with a sorta look
of 'WHAT IS THIS??' hahaha. It was so classic.
Hope this has been a good update :) LOVE Y'ALL!
Elder Massey
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