That Was Not Nice And Easy

¿Cómo andan todos?
Grind of a week, but a good one.

Some of you might remember I was keeping score between me and the ground in my last bike area. For a while, I was staying one step ahead, but the ground tied it back up this week. Made it out alright and relatively unscathed, but later that day my companion's front tire popped and he crashed too. That day we also biked around 30-something miles, so all in all, a tiring day.

Real nice weather lately though, best winter I've ever had. Makes being on the bikes pretty nice. Week started out relatively slow, but really kicked into high gear toward the end of the week, especially yesterday. After church on Sunday, we went out biking with a couple of young men (2 brothers) in the ward and found some super cool people. The brothers added their testimonies of the Book of Mormon, baptism, and how this is Jesus Christ's church. Super cool to see their excitement to share and be able to find with them.

Something that's stood out to me this week was the principle of moving forward. As we press forward and continue to be faithful despite the difficulties, the Lord truly does strengthen us along the way. Sometimes we have the mentality that things should be easier because we have the gospel in our lives, but that often isn't the case. However, things are more rewarding and truly do bring us more joy as we put effort toward the gospel of Jesus Christ and His perfect example.

¡Les amo!

-Elder Teeples

Last week's email: "It's... it's gone!"
Movie: The Dark Knight – Joker says this after he does his 'magic trick' to make the pencil disappear.

Pics:

Doggy
Epic pics at a salt lake/salt flats
The zone about to have ice cream





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