Week 96- "Who's packing?"

 Aloha 皆さん、


The parents haven't been pleased with me and my emails so. 


Imma keep this one short though. The highlight of the past few weeks was the mission president and his wife visiting the island and the branch for a weekend. We also spent p-day with them (which included a suprise apartment inspection). Was pretty cool (until the apartment inspection), the mission president's wife walked in and saw two of my suitcases on the ground open and half packed and asked "who's packing?"

I was just like: "uh me"🧍‍♂️

"Why?"

"🧍‍♂️"

Yeah she did not like that one.🥀

Anyways here's a scripture I came across recently while studying the BoM.

3rd Nephi 18:32

Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them.

It can be hard to love and want to continue to help somebody if they don't even wanna help themselves or act rude but just like the scripture says we don't know what's gonna happen. If we continue to love, minister and help others Heacenly Father and Jesus Christ will do the rest. 

Sorry thats all for today, im in dire need of a nap. 

Shoots!

愛してるぜ~
エリス長老
TheRisingSon



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