Sheppert, Samuel

It’s been a good week! We get transfer news real soon so everything is up in the air. But of course, Seguimos adelante! We are teaching people on all corners of the area right now, so we are doing a little bit of walking.  As a ward we made a mission plan to help everyone be involved in the missionary work and grow as a ward. A real hit in the ideas was a linger longer. This had apparently never been done before here. Shout out to the Goated Vancouver 1st ward and their linger longers. We have now established a “quedese más” activity that will be coming soon!  It has been really amazing to watch Veronica and her family grow in the gospel. She has been shooting down all the haters with her testimony. We ended up going to her house one day and she was with her friends. We sat down with all of them and they started asking all these random questions but we didn't even need to talk because Veronica was answering all the questions! Now we have time to meet with all of them this Tues...

It's been a good week in the recess (El Recreo)! This week it really started to dry up, but as soon as I say that, I know the flood will come. We continue the wearysome battle against Mosquitos. I don't know how many I have killed, but they still choose not to learn from history. The good news is with all the floods and mosquitos, I have never seen so many frogs in my life. In one little pond full of black water that I had to walk through it to get to an appointment, there must have been a million tadpoles (what was the actual blackness in the water), baby frogs, and frogs. I feel like I'm actually seeing everything that my seventh grade life science teacher said would come to pass. So at least the frogs are on our side vs mosquitos.  The hymns have been very inspiring as of late. "Press Forward Saints," I've come to realize is more than just an “opening of general conference” type of hymn. It was based off of an amazing scripture 2 Nephi 31:20. The hymn reall...

So in every town here there is a garbage truck and they all have a different trash song. I found out that the garbage song here in Duran is the “Friends” theme song. It’s something else to walk down the road all day listening to that song on repeat. So I know many people could appreciate that, and I have listened to that song more than anyone reading this.  Something pretty incredible that comes with the rain dumping is the THUNDER! I feel as if I’m Batman walking in Gotham on a rainy night. Imagine going over to contact someone and the whole entire sky lights up brightly and you don’t know if it's the second coming but really it's the lightning that goes off every 5 minutes, but you can’t hear the thunder for a minute cause it’s so far away. It's pretty cool you could say.  I think it’s pretty much the same with the gospel. When it rains in our lives, that’s also when the best things come about! The classic Ether 12:27 or Johnny English Reborn. Christ changes our Weaknesse...