Righteous desires...

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have Sweet Baby Rays BBQ! Apparently the Bbq sauce was created right here in Illinois and the same house they they created it in is now converted into a little BBQ pit! Holy smokes it was amazing! I was on exchanges in Bloomingdale and their ward mission leader, brother Filio who is a legend, took us there! It once again confirmed my love for good BBQ.

Monday night to Tuesday night I was with Elder Muñoz, who has become a good friend of mine, on exchanges. Monday night we almost froze as we tracted but we gucci, we got to talk to some cool people too so that was good! On Tuesday I interviewed their investigators for baptism, the Andrades. They are super cool and super ready for baptism. The wife, Maritza,  told me that she has been ready to be baptized for the past 3 months but she's just been waiting for her husband Tony. It was pretty cool to see how much joy living the gospel as a family had brought them! 

We had our zone conference on Friday which was sweet as usual. President Bingham is the goat. He taught a lot about the importance of the gift of the holy ghost, and how baptism is nothing without receiving that gift. He said something that really hit me. He said, " if we come out here and learn many things and get the holy ghost but go home and lose the holy ghost, it won't matter how many other attributes we hold onto." How true that is. The holy ghost is the most important thing that we could have in our life! We must strive everyday to be worthy of it!

Elder Stewart and I gave a pretty LIT training on desire. We shared a quote from President Oaks talk called "desire" about Aron Ralston. He's the guy who cut his arm off bc it was stuck under a rock. Aron was stuck for 5 days and struggled to get out but couldn't do it. He had accepted defeat and was going to give up and die. But then he had a vision of a 3 year old boy running to him and he picked him up with his left arm. He knew this was a vision of his future son. Bc of this vision his desire became so great that he broke the two bones in his arm, cut off his arm, and walked 5 miles to safety. President Oaks said it best, " Most of us will never face such an extreme crisis, but all of us face potential traps that will prevent progress toward our eternal destiny. If our righteous desires are sufficiently intense, they will motivate us to cut and carve ourselves free from addictions and other sinful pressures and priorities that prevent our eternal progress."

If we can catch that vision of what heavenly father has in store for us, our desires will increase and we won't let anything hinder our eternal progression! I love this gospel so much! 

I hope y'all have a great week!

Elder Thorpe

#whatsmysnack  Sweet Baby Rays BBQ

Elder Munoz and I post exchange

Nu nu takin selfies

Waiting for 2 hours at peep boys to fix our tire.

Yuh boys