November 29, 2016

Spiritual thought: Tuesday. I crashed my bike...again. As usual, I turned it into a spiritual thing

Monday:

Tuesday:

Today in district meeting I was called up to give a quick spiritual thought on the spot. I got up there, opened up a page in our white handbooks, read a sentence, and gave a sweet 5 minute lesson on it. People said I sounded like I had been preparing. As I was talking I looked up and saw the clock and made an analogy from it. Not to be prideful, but it was a pretty sweet and applicable analogy. I impressed a lot of people apparently and Elder May said that it's something Jesus would say when he busts out his relatable and great parables. I felt pretty good XD. Maybe I'll share it's a spiritual thought next week.

________spiritual thought_________

Well. I thought my days of bike crashing were over. Nope. It's a good thing I did flips a lot because that means I fell a lot which means I fall pretty well. I was biking down this hill and I usually wait to brake and then brake hard when right before I stop. So right as I did that I realized that I was on a ton of water and mud on wet street from a leaking fire extinguisher. So I drifted and slid, but as I was sliding I wasn't worried because I thought, "oh it's ok, I've drifted before, I'll just hold it and snap back when I feel it." The snap back was unsuccessful, before I could do it I was already too low and knew it was over. So I hit the ground on the side of my back and gracefully slid 15 feet across the asphalt. In the second that I laid there all wet realizing that this is the fourth time I've hurt my dignity by crashing, I look over and there's a UPS truck right there and a few other people who witnessed my public display of humiliation. So the first thing I could think of to do is look over at Elder May (who was already laughing) and put a proud fist in the air exclaiming loudly, "Yeah!" in a deep and dramatic voice as if I had planned that whole stunt. Then he laughed some more and got out of the road and then died laughing. In the process I lost my shoe and my dignity. I also tore a hole in my sock, but not my clothes that matter. I also got pretty wet. So just like I procrastinated the usage of my brakes, many people procrastinate the day of their repentance. Quite a bit. 

Alma 34:33-34

33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

We have a mentality that we can do this now and repent later. First of all, that's not true repentance. Secondly, you never know when you'll hit that wet asphalt and hit rock bottom. You always need to be ready for the wet road, whether it be dying, trials that'll stump us, or even the coming of Christ. The brakes (Atonement) are there for a reason, use them (it) wisely. If we use our brakes when we hit that patch of water, we will fall. The same applies for repentance, if we use it later after we've had our kicks or when things get ugly, the brakes will not serve its purpose. So don't procrastinate! 

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Today was a good day. We played football in the morning with the members and I felt like a human again. It was super nice and quite fun. At night we went to eat at a super cool family's house which was really nice. Then we went about visiting someone who just had a heart attack. 

Friday:

Saturday:

Wow, we did service for about 6-7 hours today chopping up trees and whatnot. Then we went half an hour bike ride South for an appointment, they weren't there. So in a hurry we had to skip dinner and bike and hour North for an appointment with Deshawn (he's the one who just came back up from Florida). He flaked. To top it off with a cherry, my bike tire popped in Deshawn's apartment complex. Or should I say another Elder's bike that I was borrowing since my bike is messed up tire popped. But oh well, it was a great experience and we need to be thankful in our adversities.

Sunday:

Monday:

Wow this wraps up our week and we have had every single lesson fall through, plenty of tracting, and one potential investigator. So it's been a lame week. But! Elder May got called to be a zone leader. But also! Kayli got her mission call to Georgia's good neighbor Florida Spanish speaking! I'm jealous, they get way more storms there...but she gets to learn how to deal with many of the same things I deal with. Exciting! Shortly after that a big ol' rainstorm rolled through. I tried hard not to go outside to watch it, I failed. Needless to say I got very very little sleep.