Hey, Everyone! So, this was a good week. I got a new companion, Elder Ford! And, President and Sister Holland arrived in the mission! I get to meet them on Tuesday this week.
We had a couple experiences this week that I wanted to share.
1. One of the people we found this week was named Sir Kilo. He is an actual knight of England (I din't know they still had those!)! He was in the army, and he was in England for deployment where he met another knight of England. That knight knighted him and a few other people he was with. He told us about an experience he had with the LDS missionaries and the Jehovah's Witnesses before. The JWs showed up at his door while the missionaries were in his home. Sir kilo and the JWs kinda started arguing. that's when one of the missionaries stepped into the argument, an the JWs left. He told us that he likes us a lot more than the JWs. His exact words were, "I like you guys a lot more than the Jahovah's Witnesses! you aren't trying to shove things down people's throats!" Needless to say, Sir Kilo is a pretty cool guy! I'm kinda hoping that when we go see him next, he will dub us knights. It would be the coolest missionary story of all time!
2. This comes from Elder's Quorum last Sunday. We were talking about temple attendance. The Raleigh temple has been closed since January and won't open until next July. The members have to go to the Columbia South Carolina temple when they go. From Fayetteville, it's about a 2 1/2-3 hour drive. Well, one of the older members of the quorum brought up that it should be longer than that. He asked if people were driving the seed limit. All of the guys in there said they usually drive about 5 miles over. This older brother started to lecture all of us about obeying the speed limit! He said that we should all drive below, or at the speed limit. This made all the rest of us laugh. But, he was dead set on making sure that when we left church that none of us would drive over the speed limit again! He went on for about 20ish minutes before someone found a way to bring it back on topic. A few minutes later, he brought it up again! Which led to another 10 minutes of trying to bring the topic to the center of conversation. While this was going on, my companion and I just sat back and watched everyone roll their eyes at the whole thing.
Now, you may be wondering why I brought this up. As I thought about it, I started tho think about how often we are "speeding" through this life. How often are we moving so fast, that we are missing everything that is happening around us? Now, I am definitely not siding with the side of going slower than the speed limit, but one other question. Does life have a speed limit? No, it doesn't! We were given agency to determine at what speed we want to go through life! Some people like to live in the "fast lane." While others just want to enjoy the ride. But in the end, we all reach the same destination. What matters is what we did on the journey there!
That's it for the week! I hope you all had a great one too! Guess who only has 4 months left? THIS GUY!! Talk to you next week!
Love, Elder Merritt
PS Here's some pictures from transfers:
Me and Elder Mitton
Elder Wright, ?, Me, Elder Mueller, Elder Ewing
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