Nov 30, 2020 - Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
Nov 30, 2020

Hola

This week was a good week. Starting with service, lessons, of course the big holiday of Thanksgiving, and then some more lessons.

We will start with all of the services we got to do. First the food pantry helping hand out thanksgiving boxes, which contained a turkey, some rolls, and other things you would eat. The next service we provided was cleaning out a cow pen. What that entails is scrapping the bad "crap" out. All we had to use was pitchforks. It was a great workout and it was such a beautiful day as well. Then to end the service of the week it was just moving food around in the food pantry.

Now with the lessons. We taught a good amount of people and had lots of fun teaching them. I always find joy in teaching. We taught a lot about the commandments as we help a couple people prepare for their baptism. After the patience and trial of acting in faith do we then see the miracles be brought. This week was very baptism focused with the people we taught. They are already and close. Some just need a little more help and love. Then others have a date set and just need to continue learning.

Thanksgiving was a great day as well. We started with a mission wide zoom. Then from there we went to dinner at a member’s house but due to certain rules we have to wear our masks all the time. So they fed us outside in the backyard. It was still great to see their care for us. Then we went off to another appointment where we just visited and made a good impression upon the non-members there.

To end this letter I would like to leave a spiritual thought about The Jungle Book. We were allowed to watch one movie for Thanksgiving Day and think of how it relates to the Gospel. I will start with a quick rundown of Mowgli. He is first leaving with the wolves but is then rejected from them and told to leave and go to the man-village. He leaves and becomes friends with Baloo and they go about on their own. Well to round off the movie. Mowgli comes back to help the wolves and beat Shere kahn the tiger. How does that relate to the gospel? We can think of three names like Mowgli. Joseph from Egypt, Moses, and then Jesus Christ. Joseph was rejected by his family. Became friends with the Pharaoh and then saved his family during the famine. Jesus Christ was rejected by the Israelites his people he came to help. So he allowed his gospel to be taught to the gentiles. Christ is resurrected and atones for our sins so that he may help save the ones that first rejected him. If we truly look we can find gospel principles in a lot of movies.

Love, Elder Cormack