I've got to say it isn't on purpose. My new card came and I was like yay! I get money finally. And then I got to the ATM and it's like nope slurp yum.
So now I'm getting a new one... Again... I feel kind of stupid but I guess that is how life kind of goes as a mortal in this world. We do things, realize it was stoopid. And so we try not to do it again, and then we do it again. And feel stooopider. But that is okay I guess. Good thing we've got the Atonement.
Okay speaking of the Atonement, there is a new movie musical playing that is not actually that new, but it's called the Lamb of God, and I recommend that you listen to it this Easter season, because it is all about the last week of Jesus' life. And it is soooo gooood! So go to Spotify and listen to it, or just go watch it in a theatre near you. So look it up!
Okay let us start with the part about the week. Honestly. It was a pretty chill week. Nothing super crazy. We had a 3 hour road trip around Taiwan. It was pretty lit. And by around Taiwan I mean we just went to the city next to Taipei. And it took 3 hours. Office life just be that way sometimes.
For English this week I taught my class all about Saint Patrick's day which they had no clue about. I wasn't super surprised about that. What did surprise me is that no one knew what Leprechauns were. Or they didn't know anything about gold at the end of rainbows!!! I know right??? I feel like that is such a universal thing, but apparently not in Asia. They just don't have rainbows here... Too much pollution. But it was really fun to shout at them in an Irish accent. They thought I was the coolest. And let's be honest, I am!
On Thursday we met up with our Bishop who bought us pizza which is a pretty rare occurrence here in the land of made in China but not Taiwan products. The pizza is a little different here than in America. As in the flavors are kinda wack. But a lot of the food here would be wack to anyone from America, so not that crazy.
We then met with this family where the father had just been baptized 2 years ago. His wife has been a member for years and years, but he took a long time. But when he got baptized he went full in (you know, immersion?) and he was just explaining to us the importance of eternal families and it was so cool to see the gospel light in him and in his family.
On Friday I had a meeting with Facebook, yes with Facebook, and they were like. 'Yall are doing pretty good, here's some tips so yall do even better'
So yah, Facebook is trying to help us baptize people. And they don't even realize it.
That night we had dinner with the Bishop's son who loves boardgames and he showed me a bunch of the games that he plays and I was like, this is dope. And then we ate steak. And yah that was it.
Saturday was the day that we took the roadtrip. And that took a lot of time. So we went home and did our weekly planning session as we ate dinner cause we didn't have time any other day. And we had a lesson to get to so we quickly drove to our area only to find out that the lesson had been canceled...so we did some finding around there and called it a day.
On Sunday we left to church super early so we could help out. But since we live so far away it wasn't really early but that is okay. Church was super great, and since we had stake conference last week it had been two weeks in between the last time I had taken the sacrament, and I was soooo happy to partake of it again. And that is so cool! I remember when I was younger (like two years ago) where if we were on a family vacation and we had to miss church I was like 'Ooooh gosh darn it, I guess we can't go to Church this week *shrug* well let's go have fun!'
And now I get, just a little, the importance of partaking the sacrament every week! And that makes me so happy!!!!
Anyways, we then had to go back home for lunch and studies. Then back to our area to find people, then back home again for dinner and reports. And so it was a lot of trains. But that is okay.
And that was my week!
Pretty short!
And so yah that is it!
Culture tidbit: Ghosts exist here. Like spirits and stuff. They actually do... Kinda creepy.
Thanks for tuning in! We will see you next time where hopefully more happens in my week so that I can type in your face more! Yayayay!
Love you all!
Elder Baird!
Something about socks
So I was reading in Acts the other day (yesterday) and it was chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 is where Stephen *the legend* is introduced into the story line of the Bible. Chapter 7 is where he dies.
He gets killed off faster than even any Brandon Sanderson character! Not sure what the authors were thinking, but he was not in the storyline long enough.
Anyways, Stephen is a BEAST! The guys gets called to be the helper of the apostles because he has crazy huge faith.
Skip down a couple verses
And the man is taken to prison because he is preaching. And they're like, yo shut up, what you're saying is bad for business around here just stop talking about the Jesus Dood.
And Stephen just stands up and PREACHES in the face of these hypocrites and just throws doctrine at their feet and is like 'here is truth'
And it is just so awesome to see how brave he is and how BOLD he is preaching the word of God. Even though he gets brutally stoned to death he DOES NOT FEAR.
And there's one thing that he teaches there in verse 33 that is also found in Exoudus 3:5. It is where Moses is at the burning bush and God tells him "cast off thy shoes for you are on holy ground" and it just got me thinking. Why did Moses have to only take off his shoes? Was his coat Holy? I mean the fact that he can't wear the shoes in the Holy place means that the shoes were not Holy. And so I thought of the saying "stand ye in holy places and be not moved."
We can stand in holy faces all we want, but if our shoes are dirty, then it does us no good. 1. We can't be unholy and go to holy places. It's like trying to go to the temple, or give a blessing, or pass the sacrament, or partake of the sacrament unworthily. It does you no good. So we have to take the shoes and cast them off. We have to get rid of those unworthy things if we want to be in the holy places. So that is one thing.
Also, why his shoes? Back to the fact that his coat was probably dirty too. I mean he was a Shepard.
But then I started to think about shoes, and I realized, it does not take a lot to get shoes dirty. In fact, just wearing them and walking around gets shoes dirty. We've got to spill something on our coat, or roll around in the dirt to get it dirty. But our shoes step on unclean roads the whole day. Maybe we even step in the mud on accident. No fault of our own. But our shoes just get dirty.
And we have the same thing as we go through life. We just get spiritually dirty. The sins of our generation is a real thing that we need to be cleansed from.
And the great thing is. Jesus helps us get over both of these things. He helps us conquer when we bring the unworthiness onto ourselves, our when it just happens because we are mortal. And I am so grateful for that. The mercy and grace of God astound me. I truly do stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me. And you should too:)
I hope that made sense. It was kinda scrambled. But it way impacted me. And also Stephen is a BOSS. Give him some love and go read his story. Also write to the author that we really want a Stephen short story. I think it would be really cool.
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