Elder Joseph Sant: Week 9 Colly Creek

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This week has been pretty great. There have been so many miracles! To start off the week we decided to make cookies and drop em off to people who were taught by missionaries in the past, but haven't been taught in a while. So my amazing mom sent me our family chocolate chip cookie recipe. Without looking at it, the other elders and I deicide to double the recipe. We quickly learned that was a mistake. We didn't have a bowl big enough, along with about half of the other things needed. But a couple of trips to walmart later aand we had it all made! 17 pounds of it. No joke we made 17 pounds of cookie dough! It was pretty great. We also had to get a 5 gallon bucket to finish mixing it all together because we could not fit in any bowl we could find(We cleaned it out thoroughly before mixing in the bucket). We ended up making something like 160 cookies! It was Awesome! and the people loved it and we got 5 new people that we are teaching from it! Its great!

Sooo we were pretty busy the rest of the week with meetings and dropping off cookies, and lessons. But busy is good! We also did some service throughout the week, so thats also a plus!

We also had Zone Conference, which is a big meeting with all of the missionaries in the Topeka area. It was amazing and I learned so much there. We also spent a day in Emporia Kansas because one of the leaders that I stay with had training, and we werent gonna drive back and forth multiple times so we just worked from Emporia KS. That was pretty fun and pretty copol to work with the Elders down in Emporia.

Again, everyone we are teaching is progressing and we would appreciate prayers. They are great people and everyone loves God.

So we also helped some people move in above us, which was nice to be able to meet our neighors and do some service! But sunday nuight after a lesson we came home and saw a couch at the bottom of the stairs. We were confused, but we asssumed it wass the people upstairs. So we went inside and, through our open window, we hear peeople grunting and struggling with the couch. So we assume it is our neighbors and we go out to offer to help, and we see some of the elders from the area next to us! They immediately bolted and ran in a circle so we caugh them. They were trying to trap our door, cause the deck area in front of the door is about 4 square feet. But we caught them and had a good laugh and moved the couch(which they found on the side of the road) to the patio area of our apartment complex. No one has said anything yet, so I guess it stays. Also today we got breakfast, played ultimate football, and rollerskated as a district. It was really fun!

So earlier this week I was reading a scripture in 2 Timothy 1:7. It says "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." It is such a great scripture! God does not want us to have fear, but he wants us to love all people. We wants us to use what power we can, and with a sound mind, love all of those aaround us. he wants us to serve and uplift each other, not bring each other down. I know that as we strive to love all of those around us we will draw closer together and to God.

Now it is time for pictures! Yay!