Experience

Waiting for a delivery that has missed us four times while my companion is setting up the zone conference food without me (in trouble), after the most pressing payments to missionaries, the bills, the report of car damage, the broken printer, now I have one moment, then I'll run (of course not "run") across town to the chapel. This writing is the result of that spare time.

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For some reason it's simpler to speak to a sacrament meeting of 10 than 100. Maybe because you are trying to reach one person as you prepare your thoughts and it's easier to pick your intent.

Jean highlighted the immediate effects of the atonement. "We can do this!" in the deific "we" provides the hope and the power to press on. Experiences taught us that.

Despite the mundane important unending busy work, we get blessed with new experiences with new people all the time. We were with the elders this week when a lady chose to follow Christ. We got to pray in Finnish with her.

Baptism is a once in a lifetime choice, other major events happen a few times in life that compel us to make a choice, we're reminded every six months how to correct our path, we reflect once a week on Christ's sacrifice and its purpose to improve our lives, we read daily for direction from the words of those who knew, we pray more than daily to know how to proceed, in each moment we choose to follow the good vs the bad.

If we ever get that figured out, I think we'll be OK.

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 Just an interesting old building

The view from our front room window. 

The person walking outside the fence and the steps leading to it hopefully give its scale.

I think they were going for Lothal Jedi temple, maybe in the Socialist Realism genre.

Rainbow bridge