Pie Night

-For Thanksgiving Elder Morin and I made a pumpkin pie from scratch which was pretty fun. Actually, it was not as difficult as I was expecting. We went to the mission home with our mission president and his wife and had pie night. It was nice. However, before we went to "pie night" we had Indian food. So, there was an interesting combo of Indian food and pumpkin pie, lol. Also, we gave the Manangas some of the left-over pumpkin pie, which they have never had, and yo, they absolutely devoured it, haha. Sister Mananga thought it was peanut butter pie at first which was kinda funny. Not sure where she got that from.

- Table contacting is continuing to be successful

-We were office Elders for the day on Friday. Kinda boring, lol.

-Got completely attacked with cassava from sister Mbaki. We were practically rolling out of her house. 

- Our friends are doing well though. Michelle is still on track for her baptism on the 17th. Michael is slowly but surely coming along. We were busy with a lot of referrals, and had one who's actually super cool, his name is Caleb. When we pulled up to his place he was really surprised we came. Like --- my guy you asked us to come of course we're going to show up at your door. Just been a lot of sorting through the fishes here. Which is great to have a lot of people to teach, but man for some reason it's been the most difficult area in terms of people sticking to their commitments. But the work is moving forward still all glory to God.

-We had zone conference. President Stringham was powerful as always. He really knows how to get the Elders motivated. One quote he said that I loves was, "There are people spiritual dying all around us, they need us." 

- Mormon 9:3-4 

"3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws? 

4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell."

These verses made me think about godly sorrow and the importance of it. Godly sorrow is a tiny sample of the way you would feel at judgment day if unrepentant. And clearly it is shown what the unrepentant will feel like in these verses. The Lord let's us feel that remorse so we will be lead to Him and to repentance. There can be no eternal happiness without repentance. A man or women can not enter into the kingdom of God in his or her sins. No matter what the sin is. 

-Elder Quick