Our huge accomplishment this week is that we have about 20 empty choir music bins. This is very exciting! Unfortunately no one else seems quite as excited as we are about it. Oh well, pearls before swine and all that....
We keep getting a steady number of student requests in, enough to keep everyone at least doing a few interviews every day. This assignment has never been predicable during our mission so training someone to take over from us will be interesting. If dealing with constant change helps keep dementia at bay, we're set!
Gary's sister Genie and her husband Kent came to town on Friday and stayed overnight in our luxury accommodations (we let them have our bed and took the air mattress). We took them to Deseret Book (for ice cream and books) and the Tabernacle along with the statues there. Then they decided that was enough since they'd been up since 3:00 am or so. It was fun to catch up with them (they live in Oklahoma).
Our Primary class was great this week and paid more attention than usual which was weird but nice. One boy in the class has a step dad who just got ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood which is so cool. It's great to see the family make progress! We love our ward here and are really going to miss it when we go home!
The Attribute of Christ we are studying this coming week is Charity and Love. We definitely have lots of work to do on this one! We'll see if we can make a little bit of progress like we've done with faith and hope. This morning I was feeling quite frustrated with charity and my understanding of it. So, I asked for help in my morning prayers and then, the conference talk I was listening to today (Elder Gimenez) started with reminding us of the invitations the prophet has made to study the most recent conference talks followed by this paragraph:
Pondering over this and all the invitations we had received, I recalled something that I learned and decided long ago. I am trying to do these things which are essential to me because I love Him; I love our Savior. This is the real and most powerful reason why I do what I do, and then connected with this is my love for you, my fellow brothers and sisters.
When we can get to the point that we are obedient to Christ's commandments because we love Him, not just because of the blessings or lack of trials we'll be rewarded with, then we are starting to understand charity. That made so much sense to me, progress!
We're loving this emphasis on the Christlike attributes!
We had our monthly Break the Fast this afternoon and got to meet some of the new missionaries coming in this week. One sister fell on her way back to the apartment, breaking that only mission rule right off the bat. She's not the only one! We have one more Fast Sunday in our mission--so weird!
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