Assigned To Labor

The only major themes for this week was me trying to keep up with Sister Castañaga's sonic speed biking and all of our progressing friends deciding they don't want to be taught actually and they hate us. That is only a slight hyperbole.

Also we just played basketball and a district and it was 4 sisters against 2 Elders, and of course the sisters won. They're lucky I was wearing tsinelas or I would've destroyed them. But I jammed my finger super bad and now its purple and swollen. Pray for my finger I have championships next week.

While this week was challenging work wise I'm incredibly grateful for the spiritual insights I have gained. Boom. 


SUNSET WITH ELECTRIC WIRES

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EXCHANGES WITH SISTER BLAKE

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Had exchanges with Sister Blake this week. Rawr. Found some cool people. Practiced our akeanon and tried to explain to everyone where Tonga is. We had to be like you know Moana? Yah over there.


VEGGIES

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One of the people we are teaching sells vegetables and we went by the other day and he gave us 8 cucumbers and we had to try and fit them in our bag. Thanks brother Daren.


BOBO BICYCLE


Man, sister Castañaga's bike broke this week, (we definitely just didn't do a good job oiling the chain but still we couldn't use it), anyway we had to walk for like a day and a half and walking again was the worst. Share ko lang. But then we got our bikes back and Sister Castañaga was leaving me in the dust and I felt like crying and throwing my bike into the rice field. Just kidding. I was considering sending a collage of me looking dead and sweaty after biking and then I thought….. maybe that ones not for the masses.


WORKERRRS

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We had some of our YSA work with us on Sunday and they were cool. Also there was a group of drunk people and then sister Castañaga stopped suddenly in front of me and I had to like jump off my bike to not run into her and all the drunk men were like “we thought you knew how to bike” and I was like “I am not giving you a Book of Mormon.”


LABOR IN THE VINEYARD


I was studying the alegory of the Olive Tree in Jacob 5, and verse 71 helped answer a question I have been dealing with for the past few months.


71 “And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to, and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; and if ye labor with your might with me ye shall have joy in the fruit which I shall lay up unto myself against the time which will soon come.” 


I have been assinged to labor. Labor with all my might. The end is nigh at hand for me and I don't want to waste a moment. I know the joy of missionary work is real. God is so very aware of each of his children and as missionaries we have the opportunity to help bring them back to Him. It matters less how much time I have left with a name tag. It matters more how much I give in the time I have left and who I become.


Jesus lives. He loves you. The Book of Mormon is True. 


SISTER LARSON

AUGUST 2023- DECEMBER 2024





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