Hey family and friends, this week was aight, on Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with Cat and Jeff, we taught them the plan of salvation and it went really well it was super cool. At first Jeff wasn't really into it but as we got going and asking him some questions he opened up, Cat is all in she was asking questions about the temple and when they could be "sealed" with air quotes as she put it. So we talked about everyting but told her to take it easy cause she needs to be baptized first. They have lots of alcohol so pray when we teach them the Word of wisdom this week. We also had exchanges with our district leader, I went with his companion Elder Lee, it was good, we didnt really find anyone exciting. But Today was fun, we went and explored Belle Isle, it was first found by the "White man" in the late 1600's and is now a city park, But it was an indian fishing village untill the white man came and then it was just land, then in the 1800's it served as a Union POW camp in Richmond, (cause Richmond was the capitol of the south) and 6000 union soldiers died there while imprisoned. then it was a nail and iron factory then a hydro electric plant, (ruins seen below) but now its a park and super cool, we hiked all around and got our pants super muddy. It was a good time. We met these 2 super high and drunk guys, who were in the process of doing both as we talked to them, I asked them for their names and the one said, "call me Mello" while laughing so I asked him how he got the name, he said "Long story short, I'm a weed dealer and I thought to myself, what will set me apart from other weed dealers?" so he came up with this super long name, that has Mello in it somewhere so he goes by Mello for short. We talked to them for a while and the one had actually been to church with us before, so we left them a card and our number. Good times
Thought for the week, in 1st Nephi 10, Nephi says repeatedly that the Messiah, will be the kSavior of the World, contrary to the Jewish belief of the day, the Jews thought he would come and overthrow their enemies and they would just take over the world putting their enemies beneath them, but Nephi knows he will save not just the jews but EVERYONE, so that stood out to me in my sudies this week, how much more the lord revealed to his prophets in the Book of Mormon, or how much more they understood.
Belle Isle and views of downtown Richmond, which we can't go to because it's out of the zone, (the river is the boundry)
Cat's therapy parrot
This week on Kayden's Critters, a little blue lizard
" Rowdy the Land Shark"
Zone Conference
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