INCSTEAD

Dude how on earth has another transfer already passed by. Time LITERALLY feels like it speeds up with every passing day. This transfer was a great one, but now she's behind us! The next chapter'll be more or less just a Round 2 version of the last! Ill be staying in the same area, with the same comp, just some new friends in the zone and more challenges with solutions to find. More growth to be had 

This last week in the Zone was a party though. We hosted our game "The Macapoffice," where each day we sent out a challenge with both a work and a fun side, with a set number of points everyone would win as they completed the assignments. So this week we worked EXTRA super hard, and got some heckin pearls out of it as a product. Flicks down below 

I made some great buddies over the course of the transfer. Here in the zone, there were like 3 or 4 Elders who got here over the last couple months, and there were some key moments where they were using this new fangled recent english slang and I had no idea what they were saying. Then outta the blue, infamous "thug of the MBB, Elder Young" slaps me with this new nickname "Elder Unc-stead." Heck is unc? Apparently its like the old guy who doesn't know about anything recent, so boom thats me now. Uncstead. 

But look. That there nickname leads into a real good lesson I took away from the transfer. Unc might mean the old codger who's gotta learn from the yougins, and that's exactly what I did all transfer - There was a consistent theme over these last 6 weeks, of learning powerful spiritual lessons, from those I wouldn't expect to hear them from! 

Elder Bednar dished, 

"..A distinguishing characteristic of meekness is a particular spiritual receptivity to learning both from the Holy Ghost and from people who may seem less capable, experienced, or educated, who may not hold important positions, or who otherwise may not appear to have much to contribute." (Meek and Lowly of Heart, General Conf. 2018) 

Now I aint tryna say someone such and such is less capable or less experienced, that isn't my message. But as I have payed attention to the Spirit in every conversation I've had, I've learned powerful lessons where I was not expecting to. Elder Holland once said that something in everything someone says will lead to at least one element of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and I can testify to that together with him. Like I said last week, I have been searching to meet the savior more in my day to day, and what I want to emphasize today is that I've met him more in moments that I wasn't expecting it. 

Thanks for reading bout the week! Respond with something in your life that you want me to keep in my prayers, and I'll be sure to not miss it. Love you all! 

Elder Uncstead