Elder Jakob Lutze: Semana 41 (Life is Good!)

Buenas!!

This week was fantastic! As always. Monday was a super fun pday! We went biking at the beach. And today we are going to an even better beach! Life is good my friends.

One of the highlights of this week would be Thursday. We held our district council meeting in the morning. After going through all the missionary things it became lunch time. We sent two Elders to get pizza while the rest of us waited and played ping pong. It was so much fun! Happy to say that I won every single match. The pizza was good too! Then the Senior Missionaries, the Barkers, went out to work with us for the day! They literally just drove us around everywhere. But it was fun to talk to them and get to know them! They are so amazing!

A bunch of children were giving me cereal! Big win. And they also loved to touch my hair, especially during the prayer. Jaja!

It was a pretty funny moment when a member asked me if I ate like a Tongan because I absolutely devoured all of the lasagna.

Another funny moment was that the baptism font drain broke, so Elder Garrett had to take a little swim. Luckily it was right before we were playing soccer at our sporting event. This event is always so much fun! We played soccer, jammed out to music, and played more soccer! So so fun!

In terms of work this week, things were super good! We were able to teach all our people on date! We also put another girl on date to be baptized! Her name is Ide. Super elect! We have really high hopes for the 17th! Currently we have 4 people that are planning on being baptized that day, so please please please pray for them! And all the people we are teaching!

I listened to a bunch of different speeches this week. All super amazing! But there was one in particular that I liked more. It would take too long to share about it, so I'll just share the poem he mentioned.

"There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

I love this poem so much. In fact, I memorized it and recite it a lot in my head. The purpose of our life essentially is to become like God himself. I'm nowhere even close to that, and I definitely need a lot of help. We also know that God's grace is sufficient AFTER all we can do. So keep that poem in mind and do all you can to reach your goals! Then God's grace will see you through!

Love you all so much! Keep praying for my people!! Until next week!

- Elder Lutze