3/29/2021
Today I got the first half of the COVID vaccine. We were pretty excited that they were being offered to us on behalf of our service as faith leaders. Our arms are very sore. My companion just cried out in pain as he attempted to put on a sweatshirt. I also took a trip down memory lane today: There was nothing to do in Manaus on Pdays except just sit in the internet cafe and call home/write emails. Well, Cedaredge is so small that likewise there isn’t anything to do on Pdays, so I got to send emails all day, which is actually my ideal Pday, so I enjoyed it, but I felt bad that Elder Aguirre wanted to do stuff, yet every building in town is open exclusively Tuesdays through Fridays, so there wasn’t a lot to do.
3/30/2021
Today we got to meet with a Baptist minister. We picked him up, and it was a good meeting. We spent the majority of our time talking about exaltation, our potential to become like God. Elder Aguirre asked, “is it not in harmony with God’s nature that He would want to give us everything He could?” which I really liked. The minister didn’t think that it was biblical that we could become like God, and I pointed out that God wanted us to progress and become like Him as much as possible. He doesn’t put a cap on our progression, and He never will. Our loving Father wants His children to grow up and become like Him. I asked him the question, “where does God’s love end? Where does His infinite mercy end?” There is no end to God’s love, there is no end to our ability to progress. We then gave him every biblical reference that I had to exaltation which was a surprisingly lengthy list, and a reference out of the Book of Mormon to read as well, and presented Him with a copy of the Book of Mormon. We also taught seven lessons today so we were very busy.
3/31/2021
Today was a lot of fun. We had a few lessons today and it was a great opportunity to meet the members of the Ward. We were very impressed as we continuted to talk to everyone around us to see just how friendly and welcoming this Ward was. We also got to play spiritual dodgeball with the youth tonight which was a lot of fun, but I think the best part of the day was the last lesson that we had. I use to watch a lot of space shows with my dad and when we walked in to our last lesson tonight the man had been watching a space documentary, so I asked him a little about how it had strengthened his testimony, and it ended up being one of the best conversations I had in a long time.
4/1/2021
Today was a lot of fun. Elder Aguirre and I had Zone conference today, so we left our house at 9:00 this morning for Montrose. On the way over I recognized that we were driving through some very familiar roads, and so we stopped by the Hightower Cafe, where Brother Hightower works, who I got to teach eight months ago. He invited us back for lunch, so after that brief visit we got back on the road for our conference. We gave a training to our Zone and it went really well. We talked about the importance of being yourself, we said that a lot of missionaries had traded their identities in the name of being the “ideal missionary”. We told people that the greatest tool that they had was what was inside of them. If they listened to the Spirit and sought to be not just “an instrument”, but “their instrument”, to do the things only they could, that they would have incredible success as missionaries. We got a lot of compliments afterwards, it seemed to strike a chord with a lot of people.
4/2/2021
Today was exciting. Elder Aguirre found a free piano listed on Facebook and so we both jumped at the opportunity to bring it to our apartment. We spent our lunch picking up the piano and moving it to our house, and we were both pretty excited about it. It had a dead key, but one of our members lent us some wood glue and we managed to make a surprisingly good repair to the key. We’re excited to see how it works tomorrow. The piano was in good condition and will be a great addition to our Facebook videos. We also had a lot of great lessons today. We’ve been giving a lot of messages in preparation for Easter and conference tomorrow, and now we couldn’t be more excited to hear from The Prophet.
4/3/2021
Today was a lot of fun. We had three sessions of General Conference today, including the first Priesthood session that we've had in a couple of years. The messages can be described as nothing but inspired. If you weren't able to watch them, please go back and do so. The teachings on the family, home, temple, and covenants are too valuable to be passed up.
4/4/2021
I'm actually writing this summary on the following day (4/5/2021). This day includes my thoughts for the week, because I don't want to detract anything from the messages of the prophets that we heard speak in conference. To their voices I add mine: Please, do all that you can to increase your faith, and if that seems like a daunting challenge go back and look at President Nelson's talk from the Sunday morning session of conference. His talk can be found on churchofjesuschrist.org under the section of "General Conference" and "April 2021". His words were prophetic counsel, and will bring us closer to Christ than focusing on anything else right now.
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