Happy birthdays in April to:
Tyler
Tayvn
Jaron
Mom!!
Happy birthday!! Hope you enjoyed it!!
As for the pictures, there's one of the sunset, the next one is how you say "hello" in Navajo (the part that looks like 4 different words, yeah, that's hello) and the third one is the hike we went on as a zone last week. It was a lot of fun, but it was super windy, so I enjoyed every second of it. :)
The title, is because we had a great week, even though we didn't have the best of luck catching people home. We believe that part of it was that we went to the wrong village on the wrong day type of thing, but there was also the "Gathering of Nations" on Friday and
Saturday held in Albuquerque, so a lot of people from here went. We wish that we could've gone, but we couldn't. Oh well, there is still work to do!
In this area, we go to a senior center and they have a tendency to give us "Indian names". To give you a little background, the Elder that was here before me, his name meant "potato" cause he was from Idaho, and Elder Jackman's means chili because he loves chili, but mine... I'm not going to tell you what it means, but I'll tell you how to pronounce it: ha-da-may-osh. I'll give you a hint, though- it sticks with the theme of food, and it's pretty hilarious. XD
This week we've been focusing on how to show our love for people, specifically a ten-year-old that we're teaching named Roman. The kid is a beast (he's reading/read
War and Peace and
Physics for Dummies), but he struggles to pay attention (more than most 10 year olds) so we decided that we were going to spend more time with him, text him more often just to see how he's doing, and it's been working! He sent us a smiley face once in the last week [just one like this (: ] and then another one, so we just sent him a couple back, and it turned into a battle of who can make the best smiley face (without emojis, cause we don't get/can't do those) which ended when we sent him a stick figure. He's progressing more than before, and it's a lot of fun!
Don't ever forget that this work is all about love! "For God so loved [YOU] that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved." If God the Father can sacrifice His Only Begotten Son so that you can be happy for eternity, how come you can't sacrifice
Sunday Night Football for Him? March Madness? Pinterest? That TV show, that book series, whatever is keeping you from progressing? So, ask yourself, really, truly ask yourself, "What is keeping me from becoming closer to God?" Then, remember that you are sons and daughters of God for crying out loud! You can do anything you set your mind to, you've just got to want it bad enough! So don't give up, and don't give room to fear, because every time you do you lose room for love and for faith! You can do it!
Te whanaunga mo ake tonu!
(Great is my love for you all!)
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