08/31/2020 you got any of them Hawaiian buns in there?

 Another week has come and gone in a flash. 


I haven't given a weather update in a while, and this week was a little bit more reportable: the vestiges of Hurricane Laura swung up here in Arkansas. We were told to go to our "safe house" for the day, but the parents of our safe house were at work..... so we just stayed in our apartment (with permission, of course). There was a fair amount of wind and rain. We lost power for 1 minute. Not too bad. Also we have had some brutally hot days this past week. High heat and high humidity. That's about it on that front. 
Hah, get it? Front.  ok

We spent a lot of time editing a video. If anything, the storm keeping us inside has given us some time to work on it. If you ever have wanted to learn how to do video editing, kdenlive is a really good software. It's free and it's pretty good quality. 

We had more really good lessons this week! Someone we are teaching is so awesome. She convinced her mom to let us go to her mom's house and meet us and have dinner. It was a really special moment. Also she came to the decision herself that she wanted to be baptized! We didn't even invite her!!! That has never happened to me before! So be praying for her! 
She is the person I said in a previous email that when we invited her to pray, she said has hadn't since she was nine. She told us yesterday that since we have invited her, she has been praying every day! Seeing her grow has been a great testimony builder for me. It seems like such a simple thing, but it has really made an impact on her and us (Alma 37:6)

(Also the title is just a funny out of context quote from this week. But it's hard to convey the hilarity of this situation over the written word. You just had to be there)

Pictures
1. The Searcy District and the Beebe District just so happened to have the same plans for our District P Days, so we ran into each other hiking the Sugarloaf Mountain Trail in Heber Springs. 


2. On top of the loaf. 


3. This horse has heterochromia 


4. Look, I'm as tall as Elder Danielson!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The first email

Image
So Elder Matt (EM) is serving in the Arkansas Little Rock mission. He was dropped off at the MTC in Provo by his brother, his sister, and brother in law. on the way to the airport in MN on Tuesday Laters How can babies walk away from their parents this easily??? "OK you can go now" In N Out Burger before the MTC induction on Wednesday. EM's brother says there were other families at the restaurant that were going to be dropping off their missionaries leaving sister's apartment MTC parking garage drop off And about an hour later, EM sent his first email: I have arrived at the MTC alive. Paul, Hayley, and Austin did a good job dropping me off and keeping me company. Next week Thursday is my P day. That's when you can expect to receive an email from me next.
Read more

11/7/2018 Elder Matt wanted this posted

Image
I have been arkanseen in Arkansas. [mother's note: that's the entirety of what he wanted posted on the blog] A rando took this picture at the SLC airport and sent it to me. EM must have given her my email address. Arkansas, Little Rock! EM and Pres Faulkner, a friend of my sister and brother-in-law
Read more

11/1/2018 titled "Letter 2 Electric Boogaloo"

Image
Week 2 of the MTC. It definitely went faster than the first week. This email is just going to be a splatter of experiences, descriptions, and stories probably. More about my companion: Elder Miller is from Arizona. He likes basketball, and played on a national team in high school, which is pretty rad. He's pretty goofy and can make everyone in the district laugh. He likes rap and country music the most, so we're kind of on the opposite when regards to the music spectrum.  MTC cafeteria food is a hit-miss. The breakfasts have gotten old really fast. It's the same "egg loaf" (scrambled eggs that's really more of a loaf than a scramble), bad ham, and oversalted hash browns every other day. The lunches and dinners range from great to bad. For the most part it's better than what I ate in college, but that's because I was paying for food and being super cheap, I ate sandwiches and rice. We sit together as a district for most meals. We're all pre
Read more