This week was great. Olivia and her Son bones weren't quite
ready and we didn't want to just pick them up and throw them in the font
flailing without being ready so they will be getting baptized this saturday if
things go well and hopefully they're a little more prepared:) please keep them
in your prayers! Luis got the aaronic priesthood on Sunday and that was sick!!
When he stood up in front of the congregation to get the branches approval
before his ordination me and my comp went crazy (silent, but crazy) and people
were just staring at us. He also had us over for dinner and his wife who is
from Puerto Rico made us a ton of Puerto Rican food. I loved it. One time we
were on a door contact and this lady like started crying to us when we were
just talking about random stuff. As we continued to talk she told us that she
had a dream the night before that two Caucasian men were going to come to her
house to bring an important message. That was cool and we set a return
appointment for tomorrow so we will see how that goes! Rhianna got baptized on
Saturday so that was sweet.
Okay so this is something that I learned this week. How fake social media is. When you teach people on the mission, they open up to you and you discover what someone's life is ACTUALLY like. Their pains, sadness, super hard times - everything like that. As missionaries we have facebook to better stay in contact with investigators and stuff like that. When you go on people's Facebooks that you're teaching and see how they look and act on there, you just see how it's nothing like how they are in person. Something i realized about social media is not only are you looking at false perceptions and the lives of other people, which in turn makes YOU feel worse, but also with social media a lot of people create a false perception of themselves! I think that is what really kills us. Every time we look at our profile, it's what we want people to think and not who we actually are. I honestly think social media is one of the biggest reasons why people are so sad these days. Does this mean I'm not gonna use it when I get Home? Nah I will probably, but I don't know, It's an eye opener out Here and maybe I'll use it a little differently.
Diomed (Dewey) is progressing well and if things go well he will be getting baptized on the 23rd.
That's about it for this week but stay good out there! Email me if you want!
Ps. my moms having surgery so bring her cookies or something for me
Love you guys,
Tfreeds
Okay so this is something that I learned this week. How fake social media is. When you teach people on the mission, they open up to you and you discover what someone's life is ACTUALLY like. Their pains, sadness, super hard times - everything like that. As missionaries we have facebook to better stay in contact with investigators and stuff like that. When you go on people's Facebooks that you're teaching and see how they look and act on there, you just see how it's nothing like how they are in person. Something i realized about social media is not only are you looking at false perceptions and the lives of other people, which in turn makes YOU feel worse, but also with social media a lot of people create a false perception of themselves! I think that is what really kills us. Every time we look at our profile, it's what we want people to think and not who we actually are. I honestly think social media is one of the biggest reasons why people are so sad these days. Does this mean I'm not gonna use it when I get Home? Nah I will probably, but I don't know, It's an eye opener out Here and maybe I'll use it a little differently.
Diomed (Dewey) is progressing well and if things go well he will be getting baptized on the 23rd.
That's about it for this week but stay good out there! Email me if you want!
Ps. my moms having surgery so bring her cookies or something for me
Love you guys,
Tfreeds
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