Well it's a beautiful monday morning as the famous
Elder Eastmond steps up to line up the shot. If he makes this penalty kick his
mission will be the best mission in the whole world....he doesn't look nervous
at all....here he goes....kicks....GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL THE SADM IS THE BEST
MISSION IN THE WHOLE WORLDDDDDDD!!!!!!
_a
short autobiography by elder eastmond
You like that???? Good story eh???/ i'm
thinking about being a writer ;)
So this week was craaazzzzyyyy. I don't know
why i keep saying that. Every week is always super fun and crazy so it should
just be a given now.
So you've all heard of friday the
13th....but did you know that there is a day that is even more cursed that than
that??? neither did i until Thursday the 14th this week...
So this is how the day went. I woke up. I was
already kinda grumpy, i don't know why but mornings are not good for me...never
have been...hahaha but i wake up and i'm soooo ready to take a nnniiiiccceee
lllooonnnng shower....aaaannnnd there is not water....great....so we call the
mission office and ask them to find out what's going on and then they call us
back and tell us taht there is a drought so ladysmith is conserving
water.....wonderful. it's not like we use water for anything...like cooking,
ironing, cleaning dishes, clothes head shoulders knees and toes, brushing teeth
combing hair or anything else like that.... So the day started off soooo nice.
And then for lunch i was making a PERFECT fried egg. And right when i was
taking it off the pan...it broke and the yoke went everywhere. Nice. So as we
were driving to the area (with a lot of deoderant on our bodies and half an egg
in my belly) I realized that we needed to fill up the Bakki with fuel. So we go
to the garage and he in SA you don't fill up your own car. There are people who
do it for you. So i told the guy twice taht the bakki needed Diesel fuel. But he
was too busy with the fact that i was from america and didn't speak africans so
he grabbed the normal petrol nozzle and filled up our entire tank with normal
petrol...he noticed riiiight at the very end...nice. so he called his manager
and if i turned on the car then the car would be finished so we just pushed it
off to the side and we sat there and waited for a tow truck to come. The truck
came and towed us to this other garage where they drained out all of the fuel.
All of this took like 3 hours. Nice. So from now on, watch out
for thursday the 14th's hahahaha but it was one of those days where
so much is going wrong, instead of being upset you just laugh about
everything...hahaha me and elder gumbo were just laughing allll day so it was
way funny!
Also we had district conference so the mission
president came down to our branch and also an area 70 came! I can't remember
his name but he was from the Congo and he gave a talk in french and President
Thompson went to france on his mission and so he was able to translate for him!
So cool. And let me tell you, french, especially west african french, is
soooooooooooo pretty! Such an awesome language! But he gave an amazing talk
about trials. and he talked about building our house upon the rock or upon the
sand and he said that the rain, or trials, falls the same amount on both
houses. It does'nt fall more on one or the other but it falls the same. The
only difference is where the houses are standing. If it's standing on the sand,
then the trials are going to be too much for the house and the house will fall,
but if it's standing on the rock then it will never ever fall. So that was
really cool! In fact this whole week for me has seemed to be about trials i
just noticed...hahaha almost every spiritual thought that i've given has been
about trials and why bad things happen to good people and stuff so that's kinda
cool! But this week i challenge you to look where you have your house built. If
you think it's more built on the sand, take small steps to shift it over to the
rock. Lifes can't be changed all at once but the little things are really what
makes a big difference in the end. Pray and read your scriptures
every,single,day. It will help i promise! I love you all so much! I woudn't be
here without every single one of you. I love it here and i know this is whre
i'm supposed to be right now!
lovesssss
Elder Eastmond
