Week 79- I'm not really good at marathons
Aloha 皆さん、
So this past week I biked 54 kilometers (or 33.55 miles) in one go. Now I won't say it was hardest thing I've ever done but oh my days does it give my favorite BYU devotionals more meaning like:
“Lessons On Endurance” by J. TY Hopkins
If you read it the bike race he talks about is 2,700 miles😭
Or the one I wanna talk about today:
“Let Us Run with Patience the Race That Is Set Before Us” by Bradley P. Owens
Where a 61 year old farmer not only runs a 544 mile ultra marathon but wins and beats the previous record time by two days.
Needless to say me and my 33.55 miles bike ride are cooked (justttt kidding no comparisons)
But I really like how in the talk he focused a bit on trials.
How we are a leader to react and endure through trials can greatly impact how we go through life. If we are able to persevere through our trials and try our best to overcome them and adapt then we can push ourselves to become better, stronger people who could do things we never thought we may have been able to do. And even when it may be too much, knowing that Heavenly Father is there to support and help us.
Highlights:
-we had another two exchanges that were pretty fun!
-transfers this week!
-Saw the jinbe statue so now i have 4/10statues!
Lowlight:
Sunday:
We had the police called on us because we were doing member visits at 7pm at night. We were trying to find one of the inactive members that was in our area book but the address didn't have the apartment number so we just went to the top floor and started asking if this person lived there. After the second door told us they lived next to them (miracle) but that they had probably moved and us checking and having no one come to the door we were about to leave. We got a little distracted by a stray cat and were petting it when the lady from the first door we knocked came down the stairs and saw us. We decided to walk towards our bikes and start to leave. She then promptly asked in a pretty irritated voice:
Lady: “What are you doing?”
Companion: “I dunno leaving?”
Lady: “You guys are scary.”
And then we got on our bikes to leave until she started saying
“I'm calling the police”
My companion wanted to leave as soon as possible but I just asked her why she was calling the police. She then proceeded to tell us how we were scary and suspicious for knocking on random doors at 7pm at night.
She called the police as we waited (my companion still wanted to just dip😭) and then once she finished she came up to us and we had a pretty long conversation about what we were doing. I guess she was stalling for time because lo and behold I see flashing red lights turn a corner and drive towards us.
I didn't have my ID or card that showed I could do missionary work in Japan so I thought I was cooked but luckily the cops weren't too mad (probably deal with us a lot lowley). And just told us to say sorry and then go home. Was lucky that it didn't escalate but still was a pretty terrible way to end our Sunday.
Kay denz Das all
Shoots!
エリス長老
TheRisingSon
愛してるぜ~
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