"My Stomach is on FIRE!"
Date
March 7, 2016
Area
Belton Ward
Companion
Elder Cody Griffin
"My Stomach is on FIRE!"
Here we are. A year from when I got my mission call. A year since
Texas became a apart of my life forever. In many ways it had flown by
so fast and in many ways it has gone by pretty slow. I am also turning
20 soon... Weird... So weird..
This week was definitely a roller coaster. I had a lot of fun times, a
lot of revelatory experiences and a lot of brainstorming.
To start off one of those fun times, we ere on exchange this week with
the district leader. I had a pretty good exchange here with elder
Nasman. We saw a fire (yes a really fire with like firefighters in
action!) so that was really great! We also did another Habenero
challenge. This one wasn't as bad as the last time at least in my
mouth. I actually stayed quite calm. That is until the last little bit
when it started to sear inside of my stomach! In my video you just see
me slowly sink down onto the floor and just lay there. That was pretty
painful but Elder Nasmans response was really hilarious! His face went
all red and he ate about 10 bowls of ice cream trying to get the burn
to stop. Elder Stakkeland and Elder Griffin's video was really great
too! They lasted about 5 minutes before they ate ice cream. Elder
Griffin was bouncing up and down in his chair. This challenge hurts
but is so much fun to see everyone else's reaction! Several of my
emails have included eating hot things... Weird...
We also met a less-active named Brother Warren. He is so great! He is
partially paralyzed and has a lot of other issues but he wants to come
back to church so much. He started to read the Book of Mormon again
and he finished like half of Alma in one day. CRAZY! It will be so
much fun to work with him and watching him make it to the temple to be
sealed to his sweetheart who passed away 13 years ago. This is what I
love about serving mission - seeing people change.
We have also been trying to figure out different methods of finding.
We have come up with some things such as hymn tracting, a Book of
Mormon stand in the park and free family history history help signs.
We have got a list of quite a few things so hopefully here in the next
little bit we get some of these put into action!
I was reading the Book of Mormon like I have been and I got to Mosiah
4 which I knew would be a really awesome chapter to study. Little did
I know what I was in for. As I kept reading I started to get a faint,
positive feeling. A feeling that was reassuring and comforting. It
didn't give me any fear but it gave me confidence. After a few minutes
it started to go away despite my trying for it to come back. However,
because I know I felt that feeling, I know that I will have a
sweetness of joy and a feeling of love and peace. Not just a feeling
of contentment, but of genuine lasting and abiding peace. Now, this is
starting to be more than my motivation it is becoming my reason to
hope - it is building my faith - and it is all because of Jesus
Christ. I am working on attaining celestial obedience. I know that
obedience of any kind is great but I kind of liken President Ames'
observation of the different levels of obedience to Elder Oaks' talk
"Good, Better, Best." The choices are all good, but there are varying
levels of goodness. It is the same way with obedience. That also
reminds me of Alma 32. Being compelled to be humble is still good, but
not as good as choosing to be humble. Now I just feel like I am
rambling. Anywho. I have definitely had my ups and downs this week.
I am still liking this area which is a good thing haha. I do have this
feeling in the back of my mind that I am missing something, I am
overlooking an aspect of something that would help me and the area. I
am not sure what it is. I feel like it is planning and I will say that
I don't feel like I plan as efficiently or as effectively as I could
and should. Maybe it is something about planning that I am forgetting
or overlooking. I am sure that I will find the answer.
Keep the Faith and Hurrah for Israel!
Love your missionary son and brother, Elder Jefferies
Texas became a apart of my life forever. In many ways it had flown by
so fast and in many ways it has gone by pretty slow. I am also turning
20 soon... Weird... So weird..
This week was definitely a roller coaster. I had a lot of fun times, a
lot of revelatory experiences and a lot of brainstorming.
To start off one of those fun times, we ere on exchange this week with
the district leader. I had a pretty good exchange here with elder
Nasman. We saw a fire (yes a really fire with like firefighters in
action!) so that was really great! We also did another Habenero
challenge. This one wasn't as bad as the last time at least in my
mouth. I actually stayed quite calm. That is until the last little bit
when it started to sear inside of my stomach! In my video you just see
me slowly sink down onto the floor and just lay there. That was pretty
painful but Elder Nasmans response was really hilarious! His face went
all red and he ate about 10 bowls of ice cream trying to get the burn
to stop. Elder Stakkeland and Elder Griffin's video was really great
too! They lasted about 5 minutes before they ate ice cream. Elder
Griffin was bouncing up and down in his chair. This challenge hurts
but is so much fun to see everyone else's reaction! Several of my
emails have included eating hot things... Weird...
We also met a less-active named Brother Warren. He is so great! He is
partially paralyzed and has a lot of other issues but he wants to come
back to church so much. He started to read the Book of Mormon again
and he finished like half of Alma in one day. CRAZY! It will be so
much fun to work with him and watching him make it to the temple to be
sealed to his sweetheart who passed away 13 years ago. This is what I
love about serving mission - seeing people change.
We have also been trying to figure out different methods of finding.
We have come up with some things such as hymn tracting, a Book of
Mormon stand in the park and free family history history help signs.
We have got a list of quite a few things so hopefully here in the next
little bit we get some of these put into action!
I was reading the Book of Mormon like I have been and I got to Mosiah
4 which I knew would be a really awesome chapter to study. Little did
I know what I was in for. As I kept reading I started to get a faint,
positive feeling. A feeling that was reassuring and comforting. It
didn't give me any fear but it gave me confidence. After a few minutes
it started to go away despite my trying for it to come back. However,
because I know I felt that feeling, I know that I will have a
sweetness of joy and a feeling of love and peace. Not just a feeling
of contentment, but of genuine lasting and abiding peace. Now, this is
starting to be more than my motivation it is becoming my reason to
hope - it is building my faith - and it is all because of Jesus
Christ. I am working on attaining celestial obedience. I know that
obedience of any kind is great but I kind of liken President Ames'
observation of the different levels of obedience to Elder Oaks' talk
"Good, Better, Best." The choices are all good, but there are varying
levels of goodness. It is the same way with obedience. That also
reminds me of Alma 32. Being compelled to be humble is still good, but
not as good as choosing to be humble. Now I just feel like I am
rambling. Anywho. I have definitely had my ups and downs this week.
I am still liking this area which is a good thing haha. I do have this
feeling in the back of my mind that I am missing something, I am
overlooking an aspect of something that would help me and the area. I
am not sure what it is. I feel like it is planning and I will say that
I don't feel like I plan as efficiently or as effectively as I could
and should. Maybe it is something about planning that I am forgetting
or overlooking. I am sure that I will find the answer.
Keep the Faith and Hurrah for Israel!
Love your missionary son and brother, Elder Jefferies
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