This week on #whatsmysnack we have a solid home made burger. A member gave the north elders a George Forman grill so elder Parkinson has been whipping up some mean burgers this week. Gotta add a fried egg on them, ya know for the protein, gotta get them gainz!
It was real cold this week, well below zero. Today is -15 And -32 with wind chill. So we arent really allowed to do too much, weve been trying to figure out the best ways to still be effective while having to stay inside. We had a lot of investigators cancel lessons because they were sick or because the roads were too icy. After the snow storm we had we did a lot of snow shoveling. We had a member from California call us and tell us his inactive daughter needs her driveway shoveled. He said she is a single mom and just had surgery. So we went over and shoveled for her. A few hours after we did, we got a random text from a California number telling us that this guys daughter had posted on Facebook and said, "You guys! There are angels out in Rockford today, and they shoveled my driveway! Thank you so much whoever you are!" I love serving others and trying to follow the example of Jesus Christ!
A member in our ward gave one of the greatest talks I've ever heard yesterday in sacrament meeting. It was only like 8 minutes long but the spirit was so strong and it was incredibly powerful! His topic was on becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. He talked about the apostle Peter and how at first when Christ asked Peter to come follow him, he wasnt truly a disciple of Christ. He didn't leave his boat behind, because once Christ was killed Peter went back to his boat and back to fishing. Then the resurrected Christ appeared on the beach and called out to Peter and the apostles again. This time Peter truly became a disciple of Christ because he leaps from the boat and swims to shore because he simply couldn't wait for the boat to get all the way there. His message was that in order for us to truly become a disciple of Christ we must leave behind "our boat", whatever our boat may be. His challenge, I would like to extend to all of you, and that is to, in 2018, figure out what your personal "boat" is and leave it behind so that you can truly become a disciple of Christ!
Elder Thorpe
Home made burger
"Do not grab net or rim"
A "black lives matter" sign on a local church.
The apartment pt1
The apartment pt2
It is chilly!
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