Elder Guinup: Week 30: April 11, 2016

Gooooood afternoon y'all,

Ah it's been a crazy busy week, it was so intense. We had to travel up to Gainesville 3 different times this week for meetings. And Gainesville is an hour away, so that did take away a little bit of time to do some good ol missionary work. But the great going is all of the meetings were really awesome and inspiring. A lot of it was focused towards missionary work which made it even more fun to listen to.

Well I'll come back to those meetings a little later in the email but here's a little run down for the week. So to start off I'll just say that we do service at a farm every other week. And there farm is big, really big. They have over 100 acres, and this last week we drove all over the farm and dug up theses weeds that are really sharp and spread really easily. And it was a ton of fun, one funny thing was we dug up a post for some reason and found the biggest grub ever. The people who lived there told me to eat it. So I ate it, and I'm proud to say that I have eaten a grub. It is a white translucent worm looking thing. It was about 3 inches long and was fat, I now feel like a true southern man after eating that bug.

To add to the craziness was elder Dean goes home today. So I've been enjoying my time here in Ocala, elder Bore is about to leave home though...brings a tear to my eye, but thus is life. Oh but back to elder Dean he is going home 3 weeks early for school. He starts college at byu in about a week. It was great being his companion even though it was only about 3 weeks. I really did learn a lot from him. It was great to have him as a companion.

Well to finish this email off I wanted to talk a little bit about the meeting we had. They focused a lot on missionary work and mainly about how people are converted to the gospel. We can't force people to convert, we are able to bring the gospel and the Holy Spirit to their heart. It is then on Them to open their heart and let the Holy Spirit impact them. The way we do that is by acting upon invitations given by the missionaries. When we did what missionaries invite us to do we are showing the lord that we are willing to do anything for he lord. I invite all of you to just talk with the missionaries 1. Give them 5 minutes of time and I promise that your life will be changed. I promise.

I love y'all, and home you have a great week.

~Elder Guinup~

Florida Jacksonville Mission