This is Rugby

Today, our wonderful mission president, President Larry Gelwix, will be teaching us how to play Rugby. Considering half of our Zones lack of Athletic prowess, and the fact that contact sports aren't allowed to be played by missionaries, this should be quite... interesting. I'll let you know how it goes. Transfers calls are also happening this week, so my next email home will be all about what is happening. Also should be intersting. I've only got four more of these things to go, so I'm hoping it doesn't get too crazy in that time.

We also got another chance to clean the temple again today. You know, people take the temple cleaning assignment a lot more seriously than they take their Ward cleaning assignment. If our Church building were cleaned to even half of the standard that the temples were cleaned to, we'd have some seriously clean ward buildings, whereas now, they're not so much. But, back to the temple, it was great once again be doing something to help keep that house of good looking so beautiful. Never have I done so much cleaning in such High spirits. That is the spirit of Service.

I hope everone is doing well at keeping up a constant scripture study. It is so easy to become complacent in studying the scriptures, especially once you've already made your way through them the first few times, but the blessings that come from them are too many to number. Its hard to recognize what we've lost when we stop reading the scriptures, but once we start back, it because very apparent. In the book of Omni it mentions that the people of Zarahemla, when first discovered, were people who had a lot of wars and contentions, whose language had become corrupted, and it mentions that they had no records, or scriptures. Some might think "well, what difference does that really make." In 1st Nephi 4, when Nephi is getting the plates from Laban, he remembers that the lord told them if they didn't follow the law of moses, they wouldn't prosper in the land. Then he thinks "well, how can we follow the Law of Moses if we don't know the law. That's written on the plates, huh? I can see why we need those now." Thats the importance of scriptures. Follow them, and prosper.

I love and miss you all!