Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week. The highlight of our week was mission tour with Elder Bennett. Usually for mission tour a general authority seventy goes around and speaks to groups of missionaries but thanks to technology we were able to have mission-wide meetings for 4 consecutive days. Each day we had meeting for about an hour and a half then throughout the day we applied the things we learned then the next day we reported how it went and learned more. It was so great because usually for meetings like this you learn a lot of stuff but then only get to apply a little bit of that. For this we got to learn little by little and apply the things throughout the week and it was really cool.
This week was super busy with mission tour, the video we made for our Facebook page, language lessons, and visits with church members here. Between Élder Pond and I we probably taught around 10 language lessons this week so we've been enjoying that! I started learning Spanish so I could join his lessons. I can understand almost everything he says in his lessons but when I try to speak Spanish I just switch back to portuguese.
Today I gave Elder Pond a haircut haha it honestly didn't turn out as bad as I expected. I forgot to mention this but a couple weeks ago he gave me a haircut so we got each other's back. This week we were also supposed to take a picture of our companionship thanking the Lewis's for all that they did (they're a missionary couple that's going home next week). Since Elder Johnson isn't here right now we cropped him in hahaha so basically I'm a professional barber and photoshopper
This week I read a quote from Elder Uchtdorf that I really liked: "Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves." We're all sons and daughters of God with the same potential, but we can't let our abilities get to our head. It's so hard to think less about yourself as much but it's worth the effort.
Love you all! Elder Bennett