Today was our temple trip as a zone and for that reason I am writing on a Tuesday. I love the temple so much and I was fortunate enough to have my good friend Brother Schwartz take us there. I learned a lot from him and also from the Spirit and I am very grateful for that opportunity that we had today.
This week we had exchanges with our District Leader, Elder Fraughton, and it was a blast. In the morning we went for a run and it was raining pretty hard, so when we got to the park down the road, with the cities run-off preserve, we decided to throw all caution to the wind (and maybe the white handbook--although in my defense, we did not go swimming, we just went wading) and we slipped our shoes off and walked to the other side--a gap of only about 12 feet. It came up to the middle of our thighs so it wasn't too deep, but it just made me feel like a country-grown child again;)
This week I gained such a testimony of the power of hymns. We tried to sing a hymn in every lesson that we had and it completely changed the whole atmosphere of the lesson. One particular example was with our investigators Margarita and Benito. As we sang, the spirit filled the room and I know that they both recieved an answer to their concerns. Benito, although he didn't agree to a specific date, said that he definitley is going to be baptized and they both said that they want to continue to progress and learn. I hope that we never take music for granted and that we always show gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the many blessings he gives us.
Love you and hope that you have a great week.
Elder Arkoudas
Pic. 1: Hello children...
Pic. 2: Ok, that's actually kind of creepy because we did teach the primary kids this last week (we didn't know that we were going to do it and we just went in to help with music, but then the teacher said that the Elders were going to teach and so right there on the spot we taught a 45 minute lesson about the Holy Ghost). It was actually really spiritual--we had 10 seconds where we pretended like we were in the temple and to have 20+ kids absolutely silent for 10 seconds brought an incredible spirit!
Pic. 3: Exchanges
Pic. 4: Elder Yount
Pic. 5: Temple
Pic. 6: Adam and Yesenia went to the temple last week to do baptisms. I didn't get to go but they sent me a picture.
Pic. 7&8: Temple
Pic. 9: Last Zone Conference with the Griffins.
Pic. 10: We sang an Acapella musical number for Zone Conference. It was actually really good so we decided to make it official and start our own group.
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