Shum Shtuff

This week, I went on exchanges with one of the District Leaders in the

zone, Elder Shaeffer. In honor of this experience, I thought I'd make

a pun-reel. See if you can guess why...

At first, I was totally 'spoked' for the ex'chain'ge. I really wanted

to help 'steer' the area in the 'right' direction. One 'road'block

that I was 'tred'ing was the fact that they don't have a car. But I

was 'pumped' to join Elder Shaeffer, because he's got a good 'handle'

on things.  Our daily planning was 'wheel'y great 'bike'cause we had

so many solid plans. 'Schwinn' the actually day started, we were both

pretty 'tired' because we were 'locked' into conversation the night

before. But we kept 'pedaling' on through the day and eventually got

into 'gear'. we knew that if we decided to take a 'brake' through the

day, we would just 'kick-stand' around for a while and it would be a

total 'race'd of time.

but after we 'buckled' up and took life by the 'seat' of it's pants,

we made a great 'tandem' team.

And that's basically all I got. I hope that all made sense. :) The

exchange was actually pretty good. I just hate bike areas. haha

We found a new investigator this week! His name is Guillermo, and we

found him while he was gambling over checkers with one of our other

investigators. He's great. He asks all the best questions just like a

good investigator should. At one point, he literally asked "What steps

do I need to take to be happy in this life?" We've got high hopes for

him.

I've read this "consecration" talk about 7 times this week. It's been

a big focus within our zone, and so I've been studying that talk

inside and out. It's be Tad R Callister if anyone wants to look it

up.... BUT if you're too lazy or you just don't care enough to read

it, that's ok. The principle of consecration is dedicating all your

efforts to the Lord. Which sounds intense, but He's really not asking

too much. Especially from full time missionaries. Personally, I see no

point in serving a "Full Time" mission if you only plan on working

"Part Time". I happen to know several missionaries that seem to think

they can accomplish their goals by sliding by at the minimum... BUT it

didn't really work for me in Highschool. and it doesn't work for them

now. In order to accomplish what the Lord wants from us, we have to

work HARD and then rely on the Lord to make up the difference.

That's a very very basic description of my studies this week.

ANYWHO! Love you all. My weeks been pretty average, so not a whole ton

of new updates. Sounds like things are going well back home!

Shout out to those of you who started school this week. That's the stuff..

LOVE YOU!

Elder Webster