The More the Merrier !!

     This is game is so much fun when you get a lot of people to join in and play! Especially when you get most of the zone, which just means the missionaries that are near you, to play. Isn't that how it usually is, The More the Merrier ! So what is the game? Capture the flag! My companion and I showed up a little late for the start of the game because we went with two other missionaries and played golf in the morning. Now when I was back at home, I golfed all of the time, I had a season's pass for a couple of years running, and started to get pretty good, and had some fairly good scores. But when you come out on your mission, and you play golf only here and there, so far it has been twice for me, you sort of lose your touch. It was good for not playing in a while. I had some pars and one birdie, it was just the other holes that kind of did me in. But all in all, Golf is always fun. After we finished our game, and got a little burnt from the sun, we went and played capture the flag. All is fun until someone gets hurt, which of course it what happened. there was stairs going down into the other teams area, and one of the players was running down them, and he tripped and hit his head on the concrete wall to the side of him. there was a little blood, and it was a scary moment for everyone, but it wasn't as bad as we all thought. It was just fine later, but we decided to end the game, just so no one else would get hurt in this concrete jungle of an areana that we were playing in.

      There was a couple of things that I thought of with these two events. First of all was the golf that we played. When I say that it is harder to do the things that are right in the game of golf when you haven't played in a while, the same goes for gospel. When you don't practice the things that make you a better person consistantly, when you go out and try to perform, it is always harder to do it the right way. If we want to be great parents. great friends, good neighbors, if we practice, we will be successful. There is a qoute by Ralph Waldo that goes along well with this, it says, "That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do so has increased." – Ralph Waldo. I really lilke this quote, and from learned experience and one thing the my former boss used to say, "it's not that you are not very good, it is just that you need more experience." That is a very true statement for everyone. If you get down on yourself for not doing it right every time, realize that those who do it right, usually have a lot of experience, and some people take longet than other to reach the needed experience. The longer and more experience I spend doing the right thing, no matter what it is, the easier it will become.  And like capture the flag, we are always trying to reach a goal, in that case it was the other teams flag, but for life it could be going to church, or reading the book of mormon, the two main things that we as missionaries strive our hardest to teach people to do. When we do these things and persist in them, we are blessed  from the lord, and he will look out for us. And as you consistantly do these things, it becomes easier and easier to do it week after week. As we try to do the things the Lord has told us to do consistantly, we will be blessed and all things will work out for our own good. Put your trust in the Lord and do what is right.

    The update on Samatha, we have seen here a couple more times and we have talked to her a little bit. She didn't come to church with us this week because she had a lab for school at that time. We are also meeting with her today, which will be really good. The only bad thing about it all is that she will be moving tomorrow and we may never see her agian after that. Hopefully she will take the step and contact the next missionaries where ever she goes. Once again you never know what can happen when you act on the prompting of the spirit and just open you mouth and say hello, and put words into action. Like the post before, " In their shoes, " you never know what could happen with the regular "Hello."