Really, it probably is one of the best realizations of my mission. I was studying Preach My Gospel and found a quote stating that preaching the gospel is the greatest work we can ever be involved in. And it hit me that that means it's greater than curing cancer, figuring out cold fusion, and saving people from psychopathic people with messed up faces, wearing make-up and purple suits. So the analogy grew and grew in my mind. Think about it. We have greater power than any superhero, even the freakishly perfect Superman. We have the power of God delegated to man, known as the priesthood. We have been called by the Ultimately Supreme Being, our Eternal Father, to assist in His great work here on the Earth. Sound analogous to anything? This is greater than knowing since you were young that fighting evil is what you needed to do, like Bruce Wayne. This is even greater power and greater responsibility than that given to Peter Parker, and, like him, is dependent on our confidence. We must also never run from it like he did, but accept it as our calling in life. Much like Clark Kent, we have been set apart from the world, given powers by our Heavenly Parents, and given instruction by our Father in a much more holy place than a crazy ice place up north. Like the Incredibles, many of us have been raised in families where these powers have been present and with whom we may find support. And we must never forget that our power to do the Lord's work is not our own, but is bestowed upon us by an even grander source than just our crazy Kryptonic reaction to a yellow sun. Yeah, that's about all of my analogies. Nerdy enough?
This week, this week, this week...um...what has happened?
Tuesday night we went to a member family's home for dinner. They're an amazing family that is in the adoption process and just waiting and I fell in love with them. They nearly went crazy when it came up that I was adopted, and it was really therapeutic for the wife to talk with me. Really, every missionary has some sort of thing that they bring to a mission that sets them apart (kind of like how every superhero has their own superpower) and that seems to be mine in some instances.
Wednesday was well over a hundred, like in the one hundred tens, with the heat index (humidity and heat combined to tell how hot it really is and not just by temp). Rode our bikes in the heat and a thunderstorm, went to Applebees, and, much like other nights, went to a members home for a little bit when a tornado was supposedly supposed to happen but didn't.
Thursday. Did service for a member that is demolishing a trailer for the scrap metal, scraped more paint at another members home, ate dinner with a family, and that was about it.
Friday. Demoed some more, did some work, had another tornado scare while a member was taking us to get ice cream at Wendy's. Everyone in Wendy's was scared except for him. Instead, we drove up over an overpass to hopefully see the tornado that was 20 some miles away and moving south. But there wasn't a tornado and never was one and we went home disappointed.
Saturday. More service and food with members.
Sunday. Church. Saw a clip from the Pioneer Day Broadcast and found it funny that they had a song from the Music Man at the end, and that that was basically the reason they showed it in Priesthood.
We have a progressing investigator who is reading from the Book of Mormon and coming at us with questions and everything. It's pretty exciting to have someone that is doing something and lives just up the alley from us so I don't think he'll escape us too easily, like others that have disappeared out of existence.
Things are really going well here and I'm excited by how they're going. We're trying to cut back on less necessary service. One member really understands and only asks us to help when he needs the help, so that's good.
That's about it!
"But nevertheless, deep water is what I am wont to swim in." D&C 127:2
Your friendly neighborhood missionary,
Elder Charlie Gates
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