Dear Familia!
What an amazing past week!
Had the opportunity to
head back down to Alexandria, Minnesota this past Tuesday to attend a District
Meeting. It went well and afterwards all of the missionaries went to Pizza
Ranch! All you can eat buffet pizza and chicken. Yummo! While we were there the
power went out and we had to eat in the dark. Told some funny stories and all of
us just had a good time laughing. It was needed for some missionaries I
suppose.
Afterwards we headed up to Wadena, MN where Elder Filby served
for 4 months. They lost the area book when Wadena took missionaries out, so we
went around contacting old investigators of his so that we could help the Senior
Missionaries, who are now there, have more people to teach! We left them with
about 20 new names for them to work with. Hehe, that will keep them
busy.
We then spent that night and Wednesday day in Brainerd, Minnesota!
It was fun to be around Elder Collier who I served with for 3 months in New
Prague. We were fortunate to attend a baptism for an 8 year old girl in the
Ward. She was baptized in a lake. Super cool!
I caught this awesome
Turtle and named it Empathy, hehe. I'll give you the Story behind the
name:
Empathy; By Sister Clements (My Mission President's
Wife)When Sister Clements was young about 8 or 9, her older brother
was serving a mission somewhere in the USA in one of the southern states. He now
and then would send them a package. When they would receive package they could
her the sound of scraping or clawing inside the box and would now and then find
inside the box a turtle! On one such occasion Clements' brother who was still at
home, reached in to grab the turtle and it grabbed hold of his finger and
wouldn't let go! He was sitting there shaking this turtle and could not for the
life of him get this amphibian to let go! Sister Clements then realized that she
was screaming and crying! When her mom came out to help with the situation, she
asked, "Why are you crying? It's not biting you!" Sister Clements then tells us
that was her first experience at recognizing "Empathy." We sometimes can put
ourselves in others shoes and not be personally experiencing the pain, but try
to feel along with them. She explained further that this is what we must do with
others. We need to try and understand where they are coming from so that we can
help them.
So...sed Turtle, "Empathy," was going to go into a box and be
delivered to Sister Clements tomorrow at Zone Conference, but I though twice and
released it, figuring it might be a finger hazard, haha.
Life out here
is amazing! I feel that I don't deserve the blessings I am getting, but if you
look at Alma 7:24, and recognize that if you are doing these things, the
blessings are definitely deserved. Good times.
Hope you
have an amazing week! I love you all!
-Elder Devin Dillard
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