April 13th

So this week was good.  Two good things and one story.  For the good things, one:  I have started writing a cook book in my spare time.  Its going to be called, "It turned out alright:  Meals invented while on a mission budget" 

and for the second thing: The elders we share a car with and the ones in our house were all together and we had a good meaningful spiritual conversation.  We talked about what we have learned being on a mission and some of the weirdest things to happen to us so far.  It was nice to sit back with some other elders and really bond as a district.  It all started when one of the elders in our house asked for a blessing.  This of course was at night and after 9:30 so we stayed up until midnight but it was worth it.  Those are the moments you don't forget.  That and bringing people to Christ.  For my story:  So we were playing volleyball this morning with some random friends of an investigator of ours and with some other elders.  Everyone is telling me to jump super high and own the court.  And I got my chance when the ball came high and I jumped up and back to reach it and while doing so i felt as if someone had thrown their body against mine and had bounced off really fast.  I toatally made the spike but when I turned around a woman that was playing behind me was on her back in the sand laughing.  I helped her up and apologized.  Someone else turned around and asked what happened.  The guy behind him said, "she ran into a wall."  Accurate, no arguments there.  I have also hit my head nine times in the last week and a half.  I started counting after five.  Because four is normal but five is absurd.  At one point I hit my head on the top of the shower door frame and in an attempt to get out of hitting it again I hit the actual shower door.  Looking at it now I must have looked like an animal trying to escape the feeling of being trapped.  One of them I slammed my head against the corner of a dresser while trying to catch a football that was thrown to me.  That one hurt.  Well to leave on a spiritual note, if you haven't watched the Because he lives video I highly recommend it.  Here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqTRSVA1YA   I love you guys and hope you have a great week.  Also here is some fortune cookie wisdom, "Luck visits the fool, but doesn't sit down with him."  We create our own luck when we work hard and apply what we know to real life situations.  Also on the back it said, "learn Chinese  Teapot: 茶壺"  That is important to because teapot is a very common word in China.  Later amigos!