Holy cow. This week has been so crazy and amazing and interesting and so many things I don't have words to describe it! For all those who missed it last week, I'm in the Florida Tallahassee Mission waiting for my Visa to come through and I know for sure that me being called here was inspired because it's already been so great!
Just to fill y'all in real quick, I'm serving in a trio with Elder Winter from Idaho and Elder Richards from Canada on Tallahassee Community College campus and from what I have been told, it is by far the best area in the mission, so needless to say, I am pretty stoked. We are on bikes and I'm pretty sure I have just about lost those 10 pounds I gained at the MTC already... It's so fun but SO hard to bike so much every day, it gets to the point that having someone pick us up in a car is the greatest blessing we could get.
We have done so much work already and witnessed so many miracles in finding people just randomly and people who are just so prepared to hear the gospel, I can't believe what I had missed while I was in Provo! The work is so much different on campus, from what I've heard. Planning goes way quick because we pretty much just walk around campus for several hours a day and look for street contacts and the day is way different. I love my companions though! They are great examples and have taught me a ton.
Anyway, we live in a pretty ghetto apartment that smells like smoke, but in my opinion, it's better than the MTC rooms. We got hooked up big time with Genghis Grill twice this week and Applebee's once and people are just way awesome in this Young Single Adult's ward. It's hard to draw the line between being friendswith the kids in the ward and being their missionary, but I think that willcome in time. It's so much work and I am more exhausted than ever at the end of the day, but I wouldn't change it for the world!
Another thing I found to be quite awesome this week was with my personal studies and how they always coincided with one of the lessons we would teach during that day. I'm learning a ton and still developing at crazy rates.
So, today was our first P-Day (it's on Saturday because nobody is on campus) and we started by playing in a softball tournament from 7:30 to 2:30 and I'm going to be super sore tomorrow. I played pretty well, considering my short history of baseball experience, and I had a ton of fun. Another one of the benefits of being in a YSA ward is that they have sweet activities every day except Tuesday and Wednesday and we're always there to bring investigators and such, so I love it. Gosh I love being a missionary! It's true that Heavenly Father looks out for us and provides us with opportunities whenever we are being obedient.
As much as I have wanted to sleep in every morning, I have still gotten up at 6:30 and been as obedient to the schedule as possible, and I promise you that we are being successful for that reason!
A cool thing I learned this week reading in the Book of Mormon was when Jesus was giving the Commandments to the Nephites and was talking about keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. When He says He created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th, basically He says we have no reason to not be able to finish everything in the first 6 days and should devote all day Sunday to resting and thinking of Him. It was cool because I had never thought of it that way before! So I challenge you all to do better at keeping the Sabbath Day Holy as Christ commanded. If you go through and read His commandments, you will also find the blessings that He promises when we keep them faithfully. Also remember that faithfully means doing it because you [want] to and not because you have to. Trust our Heavenly Father and let Him bless you! I promise He loves us and [will bless] us whenever we are obedient :)
I love you all so much and miss you all tons! Please take my word and do the things I ask you to do because I know that I have been blessed for being obedient as a missionary and I want all of you to share that same happiness that comes through being obedient to God's Commandments!
Go bless other people's lives and be a better person each day! "Today is the first day of the rest of your life!"
Love,
Elder LeSueur
PS- My new address is:
Elder Trevor LeSueur
1370 Ocala Rd. Apt. 109
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