We were born and raised in a summer haze - 03/17/14

Happy St. Patty's Day! Sickness has overtaken my apartment. Well, mostly just my companion, actually

This week was rougher. My companion seems to be deteriorating. He had a cold/sinus infection for the first part of the week, and now he's worried about the fact that his blood pressure is higher than normal . We stayed inside for most of the day several days this week, because I was feeling ill as well. We've had some really good talks that helped him identify some of his issues and left him feeling pretty good, but those good feelings don't last very long. He's asked to call Prez about going home three times this week, twice on Sunday. I keep trying to talk him out of it.

We had a really good lesson with Derek on Thursday. According to my companion, the best lesson anyone's ever had with Derek. Unfortunately I got distracted by the other unbaptized person in that house and didn't get around to putting him on date and had to run out the door at 9:29pm. I'm going to resolve that man's concerns and commit him to baptism this week if at all possible.

I got a package in the mail from my family this week with lots of pens in it. I was super excited to hand out pens to people. The rest of the zone had an interesting time of things this week. We did a move on Saturday with almost all of the elders in our zone. Our elder's quorum was super excited to see us, because there were 4 members of the ward there, and 10 elders showed up. It was nice to be the one to save the day for once.

The Park Hill Elders had a stalker follow them home to their apartment, and was sending them creepy texts all day long. After some prayer, they decided to call President Smart and spent the night with us at our apartment instead. So we had a sleepover with 8 Elders at my apartment. There were slurpees involved. We also made pancakes for breakfast for everybody, that was fun. That apartment is getting vacated, apparently. This stalker guy must have really posed a threat.

Multizone Conference was on Tuesday! It was really uplifting and really fun. I got to give my outgoing testimony there. Elder "M" says my testimony was the best part of the whole conference. If he liked it better than the food, it must have been a good testimony.

One of my favorite things I took from that multizone was this quote by Joseph Smith: "Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God." I'm doing my best to keep all the commandments of God, and have trust that happiness will follow. 

Did I mention I'm wearing my green tie today? Makes me happy. :D Have a fantastic day guys!