Aloha everybody! This week was awesome!
Obedience to God's commandments brings blessings. D&C 130:20-21 says "20 There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—
21 And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated."
My new companion, that I'm training, told me that he's going to be obedient and work hard and that is the best thing that a trainer can hear! This past week we strived to be exactly obedient and we worked our hardest and we saw blessings come from it! We have new friends that we're teaching and we've been talking with lots of people, and I know that even when we are obedient sometimes we aren't blessed with temporal things like for me as a missionary that would be new people to teach or people that will talk to us, but I am blessed with happiness and joy in the work regardless if our numbers are high.
My week was wild and good, Tuesday I woke up and after praying, my Zone Leader said, "Yeah we've got to go take this Elder to the airport because the other Elders that they live with went and slept over at another pad (which you're not supposed to do)." So we drove over, dropped him off at the airport, then when we drove back to the Stake Center. Then the Elder that we dropped off called my Zone leader and said that he missed his flight, so we went back to the airport and picked him up and called the Assistants and then they told the whole mission that everybody getting transferred needs to be at the airport 2 hours before their flight (because the Elder in our zone missed his flight). We went back to my Zone Leaders pad and that's when my Zone leader told me that my new comp is Marshallese speaking. That got me so excited because there are so many Marshallese people in these apartments in our area so that will be really good. That night, I wasn't able to pick up my new comp at the airport because I was cleaning out my car so that was awkward and I felt so bad haha.
On Wednesday we just went and grinded, taught a couple of lessons, and had dinner with some members. Thursday just grinded again; Friday got stood up for a lesson, did some Marshallese study with all of the Marshallese Elders on the island, found a new friend to teach who has 1 arm and in lots of pain and my comp had the idea to give him a blessing so we did it and it was awesome!
On Saturday we did service in the morning and chopped down some GNARLY grass for an inactive member, then we did a zone car wash and those are always fun, and we talked to some Marshallese guys who were HIGH OUT OF THEIR MINDS LOLLL, so that was funny. Then we taught a guy about the Restoration and he got chicken skin when we were talking about how the Priesthood was gone but now it's back and how there's one true church on the Earth; it was awesome, haha.
Sunday was good. Church was super spiritual and the Reeds (who have a house in the ward but live in Arizona most of the time) had all of Sister Reeds living siblings here for vacation. They all sang a song during sacrament meeting and it was awesome! Afterwards we went to give this lady named Linda a blessing and after the blessing she asked if we could cast out the devils in her home because some creepy things have been happening to her in her home. So I did exactly that and in the name of Jesus Christ I cast out the evil spirits, so that was quite the experience! We had dinner with this family and they make some absolute fire fried chicken, it was so good lol.
Today we went to waterfall called Pe'epe'e falls or Peepee falls, and an Elder in my zone tried box jumping onto this rock wall and slipped and fell on his butt and landed on his wrist and at first nobody thought anything of it. He was sitting by himself and looked super depressed but I thought maybe he was having a spiritual moment but then my Zone Leader went over and checked on him and then they started walking away and I realized that something was wrong. So I followed and the Elder totally looked like he broke his wrist so they went to the ER to get x-rays, but then they came back and he said it was just a severe sprain and the bump on his arm was just a blood clot and bruise that came together. I keep seeing these injuries and stuff and it makes me want to study more about it and be an MD, lol. But the Elder is all good so that's such a blessing that he doesn't have to go home and get surgery!
Have an amazing week and live the gospel of Jesus Christ in your lives and as you are obedient to God's commandments you will be blessed!
-Elder Alec Shockley
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