Hola!Man today has been crazy. Elders Lockhart and Hale were up late last night packing (yeah they should've been done earlier but they wanted to talk, lol) and this morning I think they got up around 4 so there wasn't too much sleep involved. It was just crazy when I woke up this morning and they weren't there. It just made it sink in even more how close I am to leaving for Ecuador. It was kinda sad saying bye to them last night and this morning. But I'm sure they'll be great missionaries.
The next day on Wednesday we had a really neat analogy from Hmo Falk on the Atonement. You may have heard of it- it's kind of an object lesson. Well it's where the teacher brings a big box of doughnuts and one by one offers each student a doughnut. However, the doughnuts aren't free, after he offers a doughtnut he turns to one student and asks him to do 20 push-ups so that so-and-so can have a doughnut. The teacher asks the same student to do pushups for each doughnut for each person. Even if a student says they don't want one the teacher will ask the student to do 20 pushups so that they can have a doughnut that they don't want. By the end it really makes a big impression when the one doing the pushups is breathing hard and struggling so that they can have a doughnut. That's what Hermano Falk did with us and he asked me to do the push-ups. He had been talking to me like a week before telling me he'd like to do it so i knew it was coming and I was actually pretty excited. I had heard the story of a professor doing it once an it sounded like a great analogy of the sacrifice of the Savior for each of us. It was crazy, because Hmo Falk came in late because he had a 3 hour exam and so he didn't have time to pick up a box of doughnuts, but it just so happen that same day I got a box of 2 dozen krispie kreme doughtnuts from the Wiests (yeah, it was meant to be, right? :) lol so yeah he talked to me privately and we decided to do it. I had told him I thought I would be able to do like 15 pushups per person but after the first three he asked me to do 20 pushups for he saw that I was doing them quite easily so ended up asking me to do 25 for the last 4 people. So yeah, it was hard, lol, but it really felt good. Near the end before I was finished he read some verses in matthew I think about the Savior in the Garden of Gethsemane. I talked to Elder Hale and Lockhart after and they said the symbolism of it all really was powerful. So I'm glad it turned out good (plus it was a good work-out:).
But anyways, yeah this last Conference was awesome!! I've never taken so many notes from conference in my life! yeah I think my favorite was Elder Hollands- He's pretty close to my favorite Aposotle now after being out here and seeing all his talks on missions. He can just talk with so much power and passion he inspires me every time. I wish I could become as powerful a speaker as he is. And yeah yesterday was quite sad being the last day our district would be together. But ah well it's exciting at the same time.
Alright well I'd better go! Thanks for the letters! I'll talk to you tomorrow morning!!!
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