It has been a very cold
and wet week! It rained and snowed for a good part of the week. To
make it even better it was windy and in the single
digits for a couple days. One of those days I was on an exchange with a
missionary in my district and we walked around outside for the night on the
coldest day. I had to wrap my scarf around my face cause the wind chill was
brutal. We have been doing lots of walking because riding bikes would not
be so smart in that weather. The other day we walked to a missionary correlation
meeting in the rain and I assumed my coat was water proof. Turns out it was
only water resistant because after walking for a little bit it started
soaking through (haha). It was much warmer that day, so it wasn't bad. Today it
is supposed to be in the 50's which will feel really nice.
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| TC Williams High School |
In the area I went on
exchanges are some pretty cool sites. One of them being TC Williams High School
(from the movie Remember the Titans). There is also a Free Mason’s Temple that
I want to get a picture of at some point! Joseph Smith was a Free Mason, but
that probably won’t get us in. There are tons of historic sites around here
that I want to visit, like Mount Vernon, but the other missionaries don't want
to pay to get in. It’s like $17 to get into Mount Vernon for one day.
The Zone Leaders have
moved in with us temporarily because one of their neighbors is leaving creepy
notes on their door. They told President Riggs and he told them to stay with us
until it gets sorted out. So for now, there are four of us in a one bedroom,
one bathroom apartment. The couch has a fold out bed that one of them will
sleep on, but the other one has to sleep on the floor (haha) (the white
handbook specifically states not to sleep in the same bed as your
companion...).
Today will be the first
day that we don't play basketball for preparation day since I got to this area.
The Zone Leaders have to be somewhere at 2, so we are just going to walk around
and check out the stores. I’ll probably spend a little of my Christmas/birthday
money :). All four of us are pretty good at basketball, so we have some pretty
good games every week and it has been really fun. President Riggs and his son
came and played with us last week and they were both pretty good.
We had interviews with
President Riggs this week. I love anytime I have to listen to him,
especially one on one. One thing that he mentioned to everyone that I really
loved was to never settle for mediocrity. That is something that I have always
tried to live by. It is too easy in life to get stuck going through the
motions. Way too often there are missionaries that do the same thing. They just
settle for being good, but being good is the enemy to being great! It is much
easier and less tiring to just "go with the flow". We have been told
repeatedly that we have been saved for these last days. I know that Heavenly
Father didn't reserve each of us so that we could just float through life and
take the easy road. We were sent here at this time because we were choice
spirits who were valiant in the pre-earth life. He needs us more than ever
to prepare the earth for the second coming! The road to greatness is always
going to be uphill!
The improvements and experiences I've had in the last six months alone have been incredible.
The improvements and experiences I've had in the last six months alone have been incredible.
Love you!
-Elder Miles
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