Weekly Email

     This week was pretty interesting, I spent most of the week on exchanges to other areas in the mission. First, I spent a day in Lexington, at the University of Kentucky campus.  Finding people is not a problem there, we taught around 4 lessons that day. The next day, I spent in Beatyville, which was a real shake up. I spent the day doing service, Butchering hogs with an investigator the elders were working with. If you ever need to cure squeamishness, butcher hogs for a few hours. 

     The works been slower in Beatyville, mostly because there's almost nobody to talk to in Main Street, and the rest of the town is scattered trailers, with nobody who's that willing to listen. Elder Sparks, my companion for the day, put it in a way that made me think; "God sends missionaries to Beatyville, because they're still his children, and he still loves them." I had a bit of a rebuking by the spirit after he said that, I could stand to be less judgmental.

     Funny thing, as I was writing this, this hymn started playing on my iPad.

Should You Feel Inclined to Censure : Hymns

1. Should you feel inclined to censure

Faults you may in others view,

Ask your own heart, ere you venture,

If you have not failings, too.

Let not friendly vows be broken;

Rather strive a friend to gain.

Many words in anger spoken

Find their passage home again.

2. Do not, then, in idle pleasure

Trifle with a brother’s fame;

Guard it as a valued treasure,

Sacred as your own good name.

Do not form opinions blindly;

Hastiness to trouble tends;

Those of whom we thought unkindly

Oft become our warmest friends.

     I think that said it better than I ever could. Anyhow, I'll write again next week, tell the girls to not eat too many Fritos.

Love,

Elder Mattinson