March 6, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XX

okkkkkkkkk.. this week.. *there was carnaval, and independence day, which meant more dressing up in weird costumes to smack people, and there was a big event thingy in the main square part of cambita *we drank juice *elder taggert who's in my house, is a big dnd guy (dungeons and dragons) he's basically just a gigantic nerd *we are now also learning how to play dnd and become gigantic nerds *i gave my first blessing of healing (i've done the first part with the oil a couple times now, cuz it's just a thing you have to read, but this was my first time doing the blessing part) *i pretended to be a stone mason for like 15 min, and built part of a random wall *we drunked juice *did an exchange with elder macdonald and stayed in our area *had a family home evening *did some crapy magic tricks *did some cool object lessons (includingggg "MAPESO" basically you put 6 pesos on the ground in a row.. and then one elder goes out of the room, and the other stays with the family or whoever you're doing it with.. the elder who stays, explains that the family needs to choose a coin (without touching it, so the other elder won't know which one they choose).. then they call the elder back in, and let the family choose a scripture for the elder who stayed to read.. once he's read it, the elder who doesn't know anything, tried to choose the same coin that the family chose before, annnd ofc, gets it every time.. everyone goes crazzzzy! how is it done? welll you don't really need to know that part, but the important thing, is that the lesson you can learn from this, is that we need to listen to the still small voice of the spirit.. i'll explain.. the elder who stays with the family while they are picking the coin, knows to make a certain indistinguishable sound, to let the other elders know which coin to chose.. this works, because the other elder is listening and paying attention, but the family isn't... this is the same with the spirit, the spirit might speak to us many times, in many different ways, but if we aren't paying attention, and we aren't going to be able to hear or understand him.. it's important for us to be always listening and paying attention to the spirit, to recieve the revelation that god has for us.. anyways, back to the email...) *we drunkenedeth juice *i walked a cow on a leash *we heard about josias' dream about the BOM (basically a week after we started teaching him, and had invited him to pray about the book of mormon, he had a dream where someone handed him a book of mormon in a park kind of place where he used to live.. he realized this was his answer to his prayer) *heard from woscar/wascar about some criminal activities (sorry, the details aren't very nice, so i'll keep them out) *we cracked our phone, so i'm trying not to cut myself on the glass rn *we had another fast (we've had a ton, but this was different) because we had a really weak lunch before starting it, and we didn’t drink enough water.. annnnd we walked to a tOn of our investigators and stuff for church reminding... basically i'll just leave it at "i died physically many times over" but i eventually survived *we had the highest attendance in church this sunday in.. like a year basically, so the ward is finally growing again! yahhh, sorry they're so boring now, buttt.. at least it won't take you guys aaaas long to read them now right? love you guys! once upon a time, god said: And I will also be your light in the wilderness; (whatever struggles we might have) and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; (happiness, in this life and forever) and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led. 1 nephi 17:13