This week, Elder Reed shared: "Walking around Bremerton all of the time gives me the opportunity to see a lot of peoples houses, as well as their driveways. And as such, I get to see a lot of different cars all of the time. For some reason, the Kia Sol sticks out every time that I see it, which happens to be too much. (I do apologize if anyone likes the Kia Sol, but I don't really like it) And of all the colors in the rainbow, all but one of the Sol's that I have seen is this olive green color. I believe, if my counting skills are accurate, that there are 6 green Kia Sol's in the Bremerton Ward area, or maybe there is only one and they just like to drive around and mess with me. Who knows.
This week has been very quick, in that it feels like it has flown by. Again. First, there was Zone Conference. There, we had plenty of training from lots of different missionaries and from President Leishman as well. It was only supposed to last until about three o' the clock, but instead lasted until five. It was still enjoyable though.
Then on Thursday, Elder Theobald got to give a baptismal interview to someone that some of the sisters had been teaching for quite some time. When we got to the place that the interview was supposed to be at, we ended up having to go to the ladies house because she locked her keys inside of her house, so that was an adventure as well. But she was baptized on Sunday, so that was exciting.
Saturday was the probably the most exciting day because we were able to hear from Elder Gessel, who is our Area Seventy here in Washington, Elder Kearon, one of the presiding Seventy, and Elder Stevenson, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles! It was quite interesting to get to see these three great men in a less formal setting. I was able to see them as just some normal guys. Elder Stevenson talked about how he didn't really sympathize with people who said that they didn't believe that they felt able to do a certain position. Said he, "how do you think I feel??" It was quite humorous. And it was great because he would just walk around the room and talk with us like we were all old friends and get us to read something with him or share some insight that we had to share. It was a very fun experience.
And to top it all of, this was another once in a mission opportunity because the entire mission was able to be at the meeting all at once. There was only one missionary who was there that had experienced that sort of thing before. Elder Enosa, who came out on his mission in July of 2015. Yeah, he has been out for more than two years. He is just that good of a missionary. Haha, it is actually because he broke his foot and had to go home for a while, and he also extended his mission another transfer so he is literally the oldest missionary out in the field right now. Kinda interesting how that works sometimes.
So I had to give a talk on Sunday about the worth of a soul, and it was mostly about Doctrine and Covenants section 18 verses 10 through 16. And then the speaker after me talked about the temporal worth of the body, so you are worth about $160 of raw materials such as Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen and so on. Very interesting way to look at it, he then went on to talk about the spiritual worth of a soul and it was quite a good talk.
Some pictures of some pretty clouds outside of my apartment. Thankfully it does not rain here as much as it does in Ohio. Good luck to those of you that are out there.
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