Alright so another boring week. My Comp is still sick so we didn’t get to go
out to much into my area but I was saved by Elder Page who is another Elder who
I live with. We went on two
trade-offs. One of them I went into his
area to work and it was so awesome. One
of the best parts about going to someone else’s area is there is no pressure because
these aren’t my investigators so I just get to relax and try to help them and
not have to lead the discussion. We met
with this man whose name is Brother Warren.
He is awesome. He has throat
problems so he is hard to understand but he is so amazing because he just wants
to serve others. He told us all he wants
to do is serve the people because it serves God at the same time. We were like, “oh flip, is this King Benjamin
speaking or Brother Warren”? To you non
Book of Mormon readers, King Benjamin is a profit who talk a lot about “when
you are in the service of your fellow beings, you are only in the service of
your God.” After the discussion he gave us a half a roll
of toilet paper that was shredded up, a bunch of limes and he tried giving us
other things but we just accept the toilet paper and limes. It was just so much fun spending time with
him.
This week I got to play in a big game of cricket with these
kids around my age. It was so much fun. There was like fifty people watching us
play. My new nickname in this town is “Fast
Balla”. It’s just the funniest thing
because back home I definitely was not the “fast balla” guy. But it was just
fun having fun building relationships with the locals. Cricket is hard because the batter can stand
in front of the wickets so they can get beaned all the time and it does not
matter. If I wanted I could just keep giving kids bruises until they understand
how to play a baseball style of cricket.
We had Zone Conference this week and that was interesting because
we talked a lot about the Enabling power of Jesus Christs Atonement. How everything that we go through in this life
can be made right with his Atonement. We
just have to understand that and to apply it to our lives. Every day that I leave the apartment, I see
that without that amazing thing that he did for us, I would not be able to experience
the immense amount of love that I have for these people. There would be no chance for me to help them
become better people. It is the greatest
thing anyone has ever done for us and words cannot comprehend how grateful I am.
Well this transfer is almost over and I’m not sure if I will
be staying or going but I will be informing you all next week.
Love you all so much
Elder Fokken
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