This week for me has been a super tiring one. This week we were on bikes and the temperature has just been blazing hot. But I love it so much especially biking and listening to music. I think I have too much fun biking.
I am going to start off with Martha and Jorge. We have been doing service for them every week. We help them pick up eggs, and trust me I never want to eat an egg again, because it is so disgusting. But we do it anyway, and we have been trying to help Jorge gain a testimony of the book of Mormon. His wife and 2 daughters have one and want to be baptized, but Jorge won't let them and has and is stil being stubborn. This week we did another faith flip with him where we asked him to pray and ask God to lead him to a spot in the Book of Mormon that he needs to read. The past 2 times Elder Maughan and I did it, he flipped to a chapter on how we need to be baptized. Martha took that as a sign but Jorge was like whatever. But this week we had him pray and flip to a chapter and he chose 3 Nephi 28... in my head I was like this isn't a good chapter for him, why did he flip to this one? So we read it and it talks about the 12 disciples in the Americas and 3 of them want to live forever and the other 9 want to have celestial glory when they are done with this life. I had no idea what happened, but it had to be the spirit. Jorge at the end of our reading told the member who speaks Spanish that there is something in his heart that won't let him deny the Book of Mormon!! I was so happy, but he is still being stubborn and not coming to church. But we are going to work with him.
Besides that we have just been biking around in West Monroe. It was pretty funny and a little sad. So in this story, I say I just had more faith than my companion... So since it is bike week for us we ride on some roads like 4th North which is busy and goes 45 mph. And these roads have no shoulder. So we bike on the side of the road and my companion is a little slower than me. I totally thought he was behind me but we were heading back to our apartment and I got there, and I look back and think he's just a minute behind. But after about 10 minutes he finally showed up. I wondered what happened, but while he was biking he got hit by someones mirror on their car. Luckily he didn't fall or didn't get hurt, but he was just a little shocked. I say he got hit because he didn't have enough faith haha, but I'm really just glad that he was okay. Now don't worry about me. I will be fine when we bike:). But the struggle when biking is that you sweat a lot and you can't get out of the heat. So you just keep sweating. The biggest struggle about that is leaving a sweat mark on someones couch when they invite you in haha.... My companion tells me that I need to wear darker colored pants. Besides that nothing too crazy has happened, except that we met a guy living in a trailer, that used to make 4 million dollars a month, and that has been to heaven twice and hell twice... I think he had too much crack before we got there... haha. I hope y'all have a good week!!
Love Elder Corbett
The one picture is just an example of the struggle during bike week I hope y'all get a little laugh out of it
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.