more weeks. Still with elder Hsu. Still very awesome mission work.
-this week is dragon boat festival in china, so the Chinese
members/friends have been treating us extra special!
-they give us this special food called lo zhong! So so so good! (It's
pretty much a mix between a Mexican tamale, sushi, and kalua pork. All
wrapped in a palm leaf, so so good!)
-we have many friends in Jena, and whenever we go out on the street we
see at least one person we know. I love this place!
-I'm going to live in Jena after my mission. I don't know how or why,
but it's going to happen.
-German children are the cutest in the world. We often walk past this
kindergarten where the teacher will take them all out for a walk in
the morning. She puts them all in this big long wagon and pulls them
down the sidewalk, and they always smile and wave at us with their
cute reflective vests on! (Germans will make their kids wear the
funniest things sometimes)
-the branch was so happy that elder Hsu and I are staying, so they had
us both give our testimonies. I talked about the story of Jonah (our
mission president's wife read the story to us and it has really been
on my mind.)
Here is my favorite verse of the story,
Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What
meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God
will think upon us, that we perish not.
Sometimes I fear that many of us are "sleepers," that we coast from
place to place, and sometimes we feel that we have fled "far from the
Lord."
Sometimes we hide our emotions deep in the belly of the ship of our
lives, and let our spirituality sleep soundly as we go from day to
day.
We don't need stormy seas or fearing shipmasters to wake us from our
slumber. We just need to wake up to the little moments of kindness
that we often let slip by. We are never far from the Lord, and he
will hear our cries even from the belly of the whale.
I love all of you!
Don't be sleepers!
Love,
Elder Openshaw
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