09/28/2020 City Of Beebe Mobile Command Unit

 Greetings from Arkansas! 


This past week the weather has been beautiful! I even needed to pull out a jacket one day. Arkansas has flipped the switch to autumn. Tell tale signs of fall: the leaves slowly changing colors and the Hogs starting their season. 
To celebrate the Razorback's season opener, our Elders' Quorum President invited us and some of the people we are teaching to a barbeque. He smokes a good rib! 
Trust me, we didn't watch any of the game. We didn't stay too long anyways. But apparently the Hogs got decimated. 
No surprise. 

The bishop also invited us to a youth fireside on Friday! Literally, it was a fireside. We all sat in his yard around a fire and did a missionary Q&A panel. There is a Sister in the ward who just submitted her papers, and a brother from Cabot who just returned from his mission, and us four, all with varying degrees of time in the mission. It was great. We had someone we are teaching come to it as well since her friend is a youth in the ward. 

We have had a lot of great teaching opportunities. We have been doing Facebook calls almost every day with a woman named Brenda, preparing her for her baptism on October 10th. The other Elders invited another person to be baptized for that same day! Pray for both of them! 

I cannot wait for General Conference. I know we have living prophets and apostles today. They are watchmen on the tower. If we heed their call, and, as President Nelson has repeatedly urge us to do, that is to increase our capacity to receive personal revelation, then we will be safe from the onslaught of life's turbulent winds. Even safe from the shafts in those whirlwinds. 

Also, side note: 
🎃Spooky season starts this week!!! The most wonderful time of the year!🎃

Pictures
 
1) The vault of the closed bank that occupies the bottom floor of our church building is open. Here is the district, flexing our Washingtons, or our Argentine pesos....

 
2) just put a tiwi in this thing and I am ready to roll.


3) Also, put a tiwi in this thing and I am really ready to roll.

4) This is Elder and Sister Hurley. They are senior missionaries who are finishing their mission pretty soon. Sister Hurley was our mission nurse, keeping us all from not dying. They were assigned to the Beebe Ward, so the ward had a picnic to celebrate their work. We will miss them dearly. Especially Elder Hurley's candy bar bag lol jk I don't need to eat more of those. 


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