This week has been a bit slow no one really wanted to meat with us. So as a zone we got together with a massive chalk board and wrote four questions on it.
1. What is the purpose of life?
2. What are you grateful for?
3. What happens after death?
4. What is happiness?
We had some amazing responses to all the questions I think the coolest thing was when we started talking to some one and they said I don't speak English.
And me and my companion translated for them and even they were able to answer. I would love to see what all your answers are.
A really cool poem about perspective I found this week.
Today was the absolute worst day ever
And don't try to convince me that
There's something good in every day
Because, when you take a closer look,
This world is a pretty evil place.
Even if
Some goodness does shine through once in awhile
Satisfaction and happiness don't last.
And it's not true that
It's all in the mind and heart
Because
True happiness can be obtained
Only if one's surroundings are good
It's not true that good exists
I'm sure you can agree that
The reality
Creates
My attitude
It's all beyond my control
And you'll never in a million years hear me say that
Today was a good day
If you can't figure it out try reading it backwards (not word for word but one phrase at a time)
Any way I hope every one will have a great day witch in turn will be a great week.
Sinceramente
Élder Noble
Trying on his companion's glasses.
The massive chalkboard!
Our call this week was filled with silliness. We took him outside to check out our new ice skating rink and impressed many of the elders with how much snow we had and a quick look at the thermometer and our negative teen temps had them feeling much better 'the cold' in Texas.
It was exciting to discover that we finally stumped Miles. For years we have tried to find a brain teaser or rubik's cube type puzzle that he couldn't solve in the first day... typically in the first hour! But this year we happened upon a brain teaser puzzle that consisted of horses. The 4 sided squares each had either a horse head or a horse tail . There were 16 squares. The horses needed to be matched up heads and tails. And the horses had to match in colour and pattern. Apparently he couldn't solve it on Christmas day before heading out for other activities. All week he spent a few minutes trying to figure it out. The other elders who stopped by became obsessed with solving it. On the p-day before new'years, he was told to bring it to the stake center where the entire zone was planning to meet for a conference and some volleyball. He brought the puzzle and as we chatted on the phone a table surrounded by elders sat trying to systematically figure it out. They made a chart to mathematically attempt to solve it, but to no avail... they went home disappointed. What a pleasure for us to know we stumped Miles!
