TALK About a Pretty SICK Week!

I'm pretty sure that by now, you've pieced together what happened this week just based on the subject of my email. My puns are getting less creative. I know.

But! you're right! This week, I was sick for about 3 days! the worst of it was on last Friday. I ended up sleeping through most of the day, but on Wednesday and Thursday, I pretty much sounded and felt gross, but I didn't want to take a sick day because we had some important messages to share! It was a little unfortunate, but I'm all better now! :)

On Thursday, some of the other Elders in my Zone asked me if I could give an interview for their investigator's baptism! Her name is Nai, and she is from Laos. She's basically the quietest person I've ever met. She speaks pretty good English, but part of her culture is to keep her head down out of respect, and I don't think she was used to speaking so openly about her beliefs, nonetheless she will make a great new addition to the kingdom of Christ. :) I was a little bit nervous for giving an interview though. It was kind of weird to think about the fact that last year I was scheduling a hot tub party, and this year I am scheduling an interview for someones salvation.

The Ramirez family is doing pretty good. Manuel has a job fair that he's going to today. It's basically a place where a lot of employee-searching businesses get together and it brings in tons of people that are out of work, and it sounds like if they like you, a lot of times they will just hire you right then and there. So we're really excited to see how he does. We taught him about prayer and how it can really take the edge off and calm you down. I hope he picked up that we wanted him to apply that today, because he was pretty nervous for it. (If you want to imagine Manuel a little more vividly, just picture Sid the Sloth from Ice age wearing a baggy white t-shirt.)

Lastly. I GAVE A TALK ON SUNDAY! :) It went well. They called Elder Muniz and I on Saturday night at 8:30 and asked us if we could each prepare a 15 minute talk for the following day. And we were like.... Bring it on. our topic was "The Role of Members in Missionary Work".

I feel a little more comfortable with Spanish now-a-days, so I decided to just make some bullet points and try to just say things that come to my mind. and this is what I got:

THE FIVE BASIC QUESTIONS OF MISSIONARY WORK

WHO? D&C 4:3 - if you have desires to serve God, YOU are called to the work.

WHAT? (recite missionary purpose and explain.)

WHEN? First line of (Spanish) "Called to Serve" Which says "We are called to the service TODAY"

WHERE? D&C 24:12 - at all times and in ALL PLACES.

WHY? D&C 88:81 - If you have been warned, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to warn your neighbor.

HOW? Preach My Gospel Chapter 9 "Importance of Members" second sentence - Members should invite others to meet missionaries, and then be present during the lesson.

Somebody asked me for a copy of my talk afterwards, I was totally honored. But I didn't have one, because I didn't have time to write a whole talk.

BUT! If you want to hear a kick-butt talk, you should look up Troy Dunn's EFY talk: "Life is a game of Football" on youtube. because THAT talk basically rocked my world.

Hope everything is going well at home! but if not, you can tell me. :) Love you all a ton!

Elder Webster