Howdy!
Happy Valentines Day everyone! Hope you have a good one. Go on a fun date, eat some chocolates, or enjoy some Twilight or Pokemon valentine cards or something:) I hope that the past week has been a great one for you as it has for me. Well let's see what I did this week...I got the opportunity to host this week so that was real cool. It is surreal being the missionary that is hosting the new missionary and not the teary eyed missionary getting out of the car. Seems like it wasn't long ago that things were different in that regard. I enjoyed doing it. I got to escort an international missionary, help escort a sister, and then an elder-so I got a little taste of everything! The international missionary was from Mexico and I helped him with his bags and he didn't seem to have a whole ton. Which was humbling and I think so cool, I admire some of these missionaries who do so much to be here. They are incredible.
Anywho, also this week we got our travel plans!!!! So that was super exciting too. And crazy! We leave on the 21st of February and the travel time is going to be like 28 hours total! We fly to LA and have a 3 hour layover, and then to Hong Kong with a 5 hour layover, and then to Cambodia! Whoohoo! I am excited to go to China or at least say I was there:) But yeah, should be brutal-but I'm not dreading it at all.
Also, this week I got released from my assignment as a zone leader. Although now we are asked to help train the new ones who just got here this week and who actually are our new roommates. So that is pretty neat. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I had to serve as a zone leader. I learned so much about loving others and about leadership. I have never taken a leadership responsibility as seriously as I did this one and I really appreciated this opportunity to serve. I just learned so much and it really helped accelerate my growth. I love my branch so much and my district. There are some incredible missionaries that are going to do some great things in whose company I get to be pleasured with. So yeah it is kinda strange not having that responsibility anymore but not gonna lie it's kinda nice having just a little less to have to worry about for a week:)
Okay quick spiritual thought. Something that I saw was a Mormon message called "love one another" it was great and I'd recommend watching it! And that has been something that has been on my mind a lot the past couple of weeks. Developing Charity and love for others. The hymn "Love one another" has been stuck in my head a lot and i really like this scripture, John 13:34-35; "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." I believe that we are the happiest when we do that-turn outwards as Christ would and show love one to another. I have a testimony of this and have seen it in my life. Let us all follow His perfect example of love and find simple ways to show kindness and love to one another.
I love you! Thanks for all you do and for your prayers-they mean so much to me.
Love,
Elder Garlick
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