Awesome Haircuts, Book Of Mormon, Converts In The Temple, Duolingo... Your ABCDs

Hi all! 

The most important news of this week is that I have a 364 day Duolingo streak! That means that starting tomorrow I'll have officially learned Spanish.

To celebrate: I got a haircut and went to a super fancy Guatemalan chicken place! It was like we were celebrating somebody's birthday (we are)! 

This week has been super awesome! Some highlights were: Divisions with the ZLs. I went with Elder Alvarendlga and was able to see his excitement to teach! He's one of the referral secretaries so he almost never sees the light of day. He just stays home calling people to see if they're interested in meeting with the missionaries. It was really fun going out with him and visiting our friends.

One of our recent converts came back from Santa Barbara this week, and had a super awesome week. From our perspective was: Come back from Santa Barbara, celebrate their b-day, get interviewed by the bishop and go to the temple to do baptisms for the dead on the same day, and then go to a ward movie night that we set up! It was super cool to hear about their adventures this week!

Speaking of movie night! We had a ward mission activity this week! We watched Coco with our recent converts and friends and let them get to know the chapel a little better. I never realized how well Coco shows the stress one must feel at being separated from their family, and how relieving and amazing it must feel to be remembered and cared for by a descendant. Vicarious work really is an amazing work because it let's us be with our families forever.

This week we discovered where our Ward Mission Leader lives and really took advantage of it by hosting a FHE activity there. It was super fun!

This week we've really focused on working with references, and today will be an amazing day of visiting with them and inviting them to church! It's always so fun to talk with people who have questions about the church and the gospel and want to learn more!

This week I read in the Book of Mormon (that's in the Book of Mormon), and it's really tragic how difficult life must have been during the life of mormon. But even so, he was able to taste of the joy of the gospel, and he left us a sacred record with an invitation to Come Unto Christ and follow his gospel. It must have been amazing for him to read all of their sacred histories and scriptures and feel the Holy Ghost guiding him to what he needed to put into the Book of Mormon. It must have been a hard decision for him to decide what to include, but what he did include is miraculous to read! If you haven't read the Book of Mormon yet, Read it!!

- Élder Grant

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