What a week! Happy New Year, everyone.
Working on New Year's Eve wasn't super productive. We were late to our zone activity because we stopped to jump a guy's car battery and ended up doing two different cars and helping an old guy try to find his car in the same parking lot. I say we tried because we never actually found the car. Either he parked in an entirely different parking lot or his car got stolen. But yeah, eventually we got to the stake center and found everybody playing board games. I didn't participate in the two different Risk games, but I played a round of Munchkin with the people who were eliminated early.
This is where things got interesting. Earlier that day, I got to interview a couple of investigators for baptism that one of my district leaders taught. This kid was very simple and very pure. It was pretty fun. After the interview, though, I heard about some of the problems that are going on in this district... the sisters' district. There are only two sets of sisters in the entire Hemet stake, and there have been issues with them, thankfully mostly amongst themselves and not out in the open.
Well, at about 10:15 on New Year's Eve, I got a call from the APs that I needed to confiscate a phone from one of the sisters in my zone. So I got to drive across the zone to take care of that. On the way back we got some Martinelli's and ended up staying up almost to midnight talking with the guys in our apartment and wondering if our upstairs neighbors were going to fall through the roof and booty dance their way back upstairs. Later in the week, I got orders to confiscate the other sisters' phone. I spent a lot of time talking to the APs and President this week.
I also spent a lot of time on planning for meetings this week. We had the APs attend our District Leader Council on Wednesday, exchanges on Thursday, Missionary Leadership Council on Friday, Zone Development Meeting on Saturday, and Stake Missionary Leadership Council on Sunday morning. President Smart came to that last meeting, which he normally doesn't, so that was a pleasant surprise. I got to share with him my unexpected news...
... So, I got permission from President Smart to start applying for college, which is super depressing. Saturday night, I was starting to work on that, and I discovered that I was awarded an Associate Degree from Spartanburg Community College in November of 2011. I'm actually a college graduate already and I didn't know it. How fun is that!? Associate in Science - Secondary Electives 11/01/2011.
Sunday, I got to confirm my Brown-Eyed Girl. She is such a joy to be around. I got hit super hard with the Spirit right after that. I had to clear my mind a little bit before the confirmation, because I was thinking about how I'm a pretty horrible student. But here's the thing: I can't even remember to read a textbook or attend a class, but I have been given God's power to perform saving ordinances for his precious children. I am far from perfect, but I have the seeds of divinity within me as God's son, and I carry His priesthood as long as I am worthy. I felt pretty darn special at that point. I may be frustrated at my shortcomings, and there are more than a few of them, but I have great worth to the most powerful being in the known universe. And most importantly, I have the potential to be with him and be like him. Infinite potential. That's a pretty special thing.
You are loved, guys. Keep on keeping on. A song made me cry this week - Infinite Love by Afa Garrington. I'm so grateful that God loves me so much.
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