Hey fam! 8]
We've had a great week! I have been sick, but nevertheless blessed. First off.. P was confirmed yesterday! Brother J, the YM Pres. did it and did a wonderful job. P is great! Sis. H has been putting together these little books to give to the recent converts that have all of these pictures and testimonies from the ward and it's awesome! Church was good, although our investigators we had coming all bailed :( Pres. & Sis H, the Temple Presidents, spoke in our ward yesterday and did wonderful.
Ok, so this month's Ensign is AWESOME! It is all about the BOM if you haven't seen it yet. Elder Jensen and I got our hands on some copies and ate it up! We had it read in like 2 days. I am so thankful for the Book of Mormon, it really is such a blessing from God! I especially loved the articles by Elder Bednar and President Benson (classic...). We bought some extra copies and will be giving them out to our investigators.
We had the blessing of going through the temple and doing an endowment session this week. It was such a great experience and I learned a lot! Guess what else... I got to see Sister W & Sister R from Leesburg, and Sister S from Sumterville! It was fun to say hi and they still remembered me :) Plus, we also were able to participate in Temple Service this week. We planted flowers, lots!
I got kind of sick this week; kind of hit with a cold type thing. Pretty much the same that I had when I was in Daytona Beach. Not fun at all... but I'm almost recovered. Maybe it has something to do with allergies; I don't know. We had dinner with the H on Monday night and.... lo and behold Sister H made Strombolli! Oh man it was awesome. She did a great job too. Thanks Mom for letting her know ha ha, that was so fun! And they made homemade icecream that was SO good too for dessert. The Bishop and his family are awesome, they are so positive and excited about missionary work. J is a stud, he's always helping us out and teaching right alongside us.
So, I have a story. We have a security system in our apartment, but we never use it. We don't (didn't, actually) know the code. But, I often like to pretend I know it and put in a code as we walk out the door to go to work. It makes me feel cool, ha ;) Well, the other night I was playing around with it and I found out the real code! So... like a little kid I figured I'd put it to the test. I put in the code, so the system was armed. Then I decided I'd open the door to see what happens - you know, see if it really worked or if this was just a fake security thing. Well, I open the door (this was like 9:45 at night), and it starts beeping. Beep... beep.... beep.... so I'm thinking, "Great, this is really neat. Now I'll just punch in the code and deactivate it." Well, I put in the code that I found to lock it, and I hear beep.... beep.... beep... Great, it didn't work. Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Oh man, shoot, the beeps are speeding up at this point and I'm really wondering why the code isn't working. Then next comes the EEHH! EEHH! EEHH! EEHH! EEHH! EEHH! EEHH! Which, I'm sure by now, our neighbors are now wondering what's going on. I sheepishly yelled (is that possible? Ha ha) to Elder Jensen and told him sorry, but this is what happened... and then started to put my shoes back on to go meet the police or whoever would come to see what's going on and catch the "bad guys" who set off the alarm. Well, Elder Jensen walks over, punches in the code I discovered to arm the place, and for some reason it worked for him! And then there was calm... yes! It finally stopped. And life is good! That is the story of Elder Beckett and the alarm system of the apartment.
Things are going well, right now we are just really trying to build up our teaching pool. We have been struggling getting people to church. Some of our investigators you will probably hear more about in the coming weeks are C & her family, G, M, and perhaps A. If you could keep them in your prayers that they will make it to church, that would be great.
I know that the church is true, I'm so thankful to be out here serving a mission. It is awesome! I can't wait for general conference =] I love you all so much! Thanks for the updates on the wards and everything. Send my love :) Keep on being the great people you are, I love you!
'Til next time,
Elder Andrew Beckett
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