Wednesday, October 4, 2017

October 4, 2017 - Ping Pong

This past week was a really great week, in all ways imaginalbe, I am so very grateful to be out here on the mission and for the people we help and the experiences that we are having. We had some awesome experiences this week as well which really built upon and helped to strenghten my own testimony!
So this past weekend was General Conference. For those of you who do not know, General Conference happenes twice a year, once every 6 months and the prophet and apostles as well as other Church leaders recieve insight and revelation to share with the world. The guidance that they gives us leads us to peace, joy and new sources of peacefulness, because there is happiness that comes from following the prophet. I really learned alot and enjoyed every second of it, if you have not had the opporotunity to see or hear for yourself, I will leave the link in the email so that you can go check it out. 
As well, we had some great experiences this week. Just yesterday we were walking in the street and a guy on the side of the road looked us in the eyes and said "hey guys how are you?" in perfect English. So of course, we stopped to talk to him. His name is Daniel and he was born in the US but spent the most of his life here, but he speaks very good English and so we talked with him for a little and then went to his house later that night to go and teach him. We talked about his life and experiences with the church, and then we shared a message with him. He is super receptive and a great person, and we have a return visit with him tonight. He was first introduced into the chruch by a friend, which was a real testimony builder for me, we are all workers in the obra of the Lord! This weekend as well on Sunday there is a little girl named Belen who is getting baptized! Her family is coming back to activity in the church, and we have been teaching the whole family, and she will be baptized by her dad this Sunday afternoon. I testify and know that families can be eternal and that through Priesthood ordinances we can make bonds with our Heavenly Father that will last for the eternities. 
Ok so jumping from super spritual moment, lets go to the funny story of the week. On Thursday we were walking through a really ghetto park with trash, alcohol and people passed out on the ground everywhere, or basically the normal, and we saw some kids playing ping pong. We went to talk with them and we talked with them and then played some ping pong so that they would listen to us. We were able to teach them the Restoration, and ten after they invited us to watch them play one more game. They both broke their paddles, so they took out their phones and started to play ping pong with their phones, then one of the phones broke, so he played with his hand. It was good to see that he valued his things alot.
This mission is awesome, I hope you are all doing good! Be safe and have a great week!

Love
Elder Tilghman



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