Master Mouse

8/21/17

Ya'at'teh' everyone,

So this week was pretty good, we had Zone Conference, and we did a lot of service, most of which was painting.  Not a whole lot to talk about, but we finally caught the devil mouse in our house!

As you can see the trap barely got his nose.  This little stinker was smart...  we had 3 traps out, one had poison in it, and he didn't go for that one.  Then we had 2 other traps and this mouse had gotten all the bait off of both of them, so we put a fruit snack on this one that way it wasn't easy for him to get it off.  He is fast and smart and we have been trying to get him for a while. He is pretty big, too.  But he almost got away from this one cuz the trap barely got his nose.  So that was exciting.

Umm today we will be in Gallup, and I told Elder Hardman to bring his gloves so we can play catch so hopefully that will happen.  I will have Elder Cox take pics.  

Spiritual thought is a poem by William Ernest Hendley...

Out of the night that covers me

Black is the pit from pole to pole

I thank whatever gods may be

for my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud

under the bludgeonings of chance

my head is bloody but unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade

Yet the menace of the years 

Finds, and shall find me unafraid

It matters not how straight the gate

How charged with punishments the scroll

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul

I really like this poem because it really illustrates how it doesn't matter what is going on around us, what happens to us, or what other people do to us.  We are the ones who are responsible for how we come out of it all, we are the ones who make the choices to determine where our souls will end up.  We cannot blame others or the circumstance for what we choose (#AntiFaithList).  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

I hope you all have a good week, love you!

Elder Takis

Week 2

8/14/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh' everyone,

So this week I don't have a whole lot to report on.  It has been slow lately with everyone starting school and doing school shopping and all that.  So not a whole lot happened.

Umm on Thursday President and Sister Adams came to do interviews with our district, so our area got triple worked, which was good, we found some new people to teach.  Um but when it was Elder Cox's and my turn for interviews, President asked me about my haircut and if it was my baseball cut...  haha boy was he surprised when I told him what my hair was like during baseball season.  He isn't overly fond of that type of stuff, and I am pretty sure he is going to try and talk me out of the whole bleached, curly mohawk before he is done with his mission.  So we will see how that goes haha.

Umm another thing is that we did some painting for one of our members, and I really enjoyed that. Brought back home re-modeling memories.  But I loved it and got a bit OCD but it looks good haha.

My spiritual thought comes from 1 Nephi 2:16  when Nephi prays to the Lord to have comfort and to be able to believe the things his father is saying and doing.  Laman and Lemuel were murmuring and didn't care to ask Heavenly father if it was right so they never had a good attitude about it.  Nephi on the other hand, still had to ask Heavenly Father if it was right, because I am sure there were some challenging things for him to leave behind but because he didn't complain and looked to the Lord for guidance he was blessed, and he became so much more than Laman and Lemuel.  So that was my thought, hopefully it made sense.

Anyway, Love you all!


Elder Takis