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Chapter 2: Siler City North Carolina (Week 4)

And it came to pass in the fourth week of the first transfer...

Elder Kearon of the 12 apostles came to our mission on Sunday! I got to shake his hand and then he spoke for 90ish minutes. He's probably the best speaker ever for a few reasons. He had some audience participation so it was more engaging. Every now and then he had us stand and stretch which was great and made it a lot more comfortable to not sit for so long. He's also super funny and his sarcasm is similar to mine! He has a very teasing but loving sarcasm. He talked about finding joy in missionary work and expressing that joy to others because this gospel is filled with joy and we share the most joyful message. Most of you probably remember his general conference talk titled "the church of joy". It's a huge focus of his. My favorite quote: "someone will be flogged for that" like I said teasing sarcasm but he says it with so much love and jokingness.

They try to do an exchange every week but my entire district is sisters besides us so it hasn't happened until this week and I got to do two! One with Zone leaders and one with APs. A regular exchange is swapping places with another missionary for 24 hours. I had one of those and it was super fun! I was in a trio for that which was cool. My second exchange was a blitz exchange which, from what I gather, pretty much only happens with assistants to the president (APs) and we had an AP blitz exchange. A blitz is when a missionary just joins us for 24 hours and neither of us leave so I was in a trio again! Side note: here they call the people on your first exchange your Godfather and I have 2! Elder Crandall and Elder Holt. 

Not much else happened this week. Lots and lots of meetings. We had over 3 hours of total drive time every day Thursday-Sunday between exchanges and meetings. After the adult session of stake conference there were crumbl cookies! And they bought way way way too many. Between us and the Spanish Elders that live next door we were send home with nearly 30 crumbl cookies!

My ZL shared some wonderful scriptures with me like Mosiah 17:13 and Mosiah 21:3 but today I want to share 2 Nephi 2:25.
"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."
The first part is about how Adam fell so that he would be able to have kids and man might be, but the second part is much more important to me. Men are that they might have joy. We are on this earth to learn and grow through trials. We are also on this earth to have joy! We should choose to be happy and consciously train ourselves to have joy even in our trials. There is always joy to be find in the gospel because even if there is no joy to be found in our current circumstances there is so much joy to be found in the future and in the eternities!

Love y'all!
And thus ended the fourth week of the first transfer

Here's what about 127 six-packs of Crumbl cookies looks like




(Hopefully a few more pictures get sent to me before the end of the day.)


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