Big preparatory week, you could say, so I'm not going to have anything too long. Things are about to start going crazy in Coban 2. We are so hyped.
Highlights
🎂: Some members blessed us up with this massive cake and tons of pizza for my birthday, so that was lit.
🕍: Hill and I got to go through the temple during the week. A bit of an early wake up, but it was of course very worth it.
📘: We had so many fire lessons this week and the Spirit was super strong. Love to have those.
🚨: We didn't think we were gonna have a lot of friends in church, then buzzer beater, we ended up having seven pull up last second. Waiting for the meeting to start gets me nervous these days.
🌟: We had a member call us at the last second for us to make a game for the big church activity. Hill and I cooked something up and they loved it. Ended it with chucking little Jesus Christ figures over my head, and it was a battlefield to get them.
🎶: We hit a dance party with this one really drunk guy, and that was a highlight for sure. Great time.
🍕: We went to visit one of these members for the first time and turns out their son is one of the Domino's workers in my last area. After they sent a picture, he responded with saying how they were all wondering where I was and told them my order every time. Now those members call me "Elder Carnivora" 😭😭😭
🚗: Elder Hill is a goat and always gives us something to talk about. This week he chose the topic of "Cars," and I think I heard 1000 "Would you rather (Cars edition) questions. We are always having a good time. He says he WILL have a Raptor R ready for me as my wedding gift and has told me how he's going to do it every day. He might not be joking. What a stud.
Spiritual Thought - The Simplest Act
There are two talks I love that are about this principle.
"Discovering God's Plan for You" - Kilani Sitake
"The Difference One Can Make, The Kent Williams Story" - Brother Johnson
Both of these stories are incredible and show the importance of a simple act. I encourage you all to listen to both of them if you have a little bit of time. I will link them below. I really don't know how I could summarize these two up in a quick email.
Now if you know these talks or after you have listened to them, I understand that maybe they might not feature the “simplest act,” but I imagine to the people that did read them, they were.
The football player in Kilani's story didn't do what he did to receive something back. He didn't do what he did for any sort of gain. He didn't do it because he was supposed to. It would've been easier to stay where he was. He did it because he truly loved those around him.
Kent Williams may not have been doing the “simple” act but at no point was he doing anything for a return. He wasn't doing it for any sort of fame or any sort of self-centered purpose. He could've showed up and sat and left every day. He could've stayed to himself, but he didn't. He did everything he did because he truly loved those around him.
Neither of them was doing what they did for a return. They did it because they truly loved those around them. And what may seem like an extraordinary act to us was nothing to them because they were doing it out of love. It was only a simple act to them because how couldn't they have done what they did. They could never have sat back and watched because they truly loved those around them. And because of this, it truly was only a simple act. And if there's anything I have come to realize is that the simplest acts mean the most. A simple act can change the LIFE of the recipient. Helping or doing something for the next person not because you should but because they deserve it makes any good act a simple one. Every single person has the capacity to affect somebody's life more than they can possibly realize. And each person is able to decide to do the “simple” act whatever that may be.
Alma 37:
6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.
I love you all and hope you have amazing weeks. Thank you so much to everyone that reached out this last week, and congrats to all getting your mission calls.
Elder Wilde
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