Sheppert, Samuel

A roller coaster as usual! These weeks really zip by fast. In the missionary life there is such an anticipation for each Sunday! We start preparing on Monday for Sunday! And because of that, the weeks go by really really fast! I forgot that we had a P-day for a second. I wish I had that “Sunday Anticipation” before the mission! I think every single person can have it too outside of the mission. I want to be walking into church on Sunday feeling like a champion, ready to partake of the sacrament! Everyone should be walking into church feeling that they are just a tad closer to God! That isn't gonna just happen on Sunday morning! That starts on Monday! I want to challenge everyone to start preparing for Sunday, the Lord's day, little by little, Today!!  Shout out to the goat Uncle Giles one last time!  I used to not like when the lights go out in Ventanas and it's night. But it really turns out to be a huge blessing from the Lord. Families are always together! Without interne...

Transfers are past and it seems that I'm in Simbimbe for one last transfer!! It feels like the last dance, but I know I still just started. Not a bad thing at all. This place is awesome! And more exciting I'm training a young buck up in the righteous ways. Elder Rodriguez of Uruguay! This couldn't be more appropriate because Uruguay was always the funnest International team to play with in Fifa. The first day on the job was stressful but this is just fun! We are running all over the place and finding and teaching and preaching.  I still haven't had the pleasure of having chicken feet soup, but I ate some Cow foot soup a few days ago. It really wasn't that bad until I found out that it was literally just a cow foot. Then I had second guesses. Just muscles and bones and broth.  This Sunday had to have been one of the craziest Sundays of my life. First off, I woke up that morning all ready to go, then was reminded that I had to give a talk but I had completely forgotte...

The mission gets a little more real hearing that The Giles Sullivan is going home. That means it's go time! It doesn't cease to amaze me that every day it just gets a little hotter because I came at the beginning of the cold season. And I thought it was very hot for the record. But the winter is the hot season and the wet season. I believe that I will forget what the cold is very soon. In a similar way, everything tastes different here. It's crazy stuff man. "We forgot the taste of bread." They have a major festival here in Ventanas on the 10th of November because a whole sector is called diez de Noviembre and also the main street that we live on. It was crazy to see the change in the town this week. A whole festival moved into town with rides and stuff. It felt like I was in the Clark County fair all over again!! Maybe a little sadder but it met all the criteria: wild dogs are running around, strange things to eat, sketchy folk, and also people needing to hear th...

Full miracles this week! Nothing like another week in the city of windows! I will say it was rather dusty but that is just the way it is here. I do not thing it has rained here once in my time here more than once when it drizzled for a second. It's dry but you never really feel dry, always a tad wet somehow. But what they say is come December, I'll have to be wearing rainboots to my knees and coats just to get across the road. This ain't Curtis or Washington no more. I do love the dusty roads though. If it's quiet, you feel like you're in a movie. But I don't want it to seem sketchy or have that mentality ever so sometimes I walk fast like Troy Bolton on the golf course, but just straight dirt rock, and sing in my head of what I still remember from "Bet on it!"  I have loved finding new people in the streets or going to houses that we feel are chosen (every one). We talk about the Atonement of Jesus Christ with every person we talk to. We recently foun...