Week 55  კიში! Check!

Wow, I cant believe it's Monday...to be honest this week went by in a blink. Weeks seem to continue to do that.  Anyway, Monday was a blast we went with some of the missionaries to Gori and to visit the Stalin Museum there and later to უფლისციხე. This is an old cave/stone rock formation of sorts. There were parts of it that I felt I was in the hobbit. Super cool, I highly would recommend it. We met with our investigator a few times this week. She is progressing slowly but surely. We have a few more meetings and then I think she is ready. She didn't come to church sadly this week. We meet with her tomorrow so hopefully everything is well. We went to an English group (not the one we do) this week with the elders to see how how their class goes. It is very interesting to meet people all over the world there. America, Italy, Colombia all here in Georgia. Which is kinda in the middle of no where. Sadly, no Georgians came to it...so not the most effective "missionary" evening, but still a good evening meeting and having some cool conversations with people. I tried "chalk finding" this week so that was interesting. I thought it was time that I brought my talent to the table...art. Some of you might have seen some of them on Facebook. W still need to perfect the finding method however. We need to find a better park with more foot traffic. We have game night ever Friday and one of my favorite members taught me chess. So now I kinda know chess. He is this old man that I always have very deep conversations with on varying topics, politics, physiology etc. It's always a blast to talk with him. I have dubbed him my Georgian grandpa. Anyway, long story short he taught me and then I proceeded to get schooled by elementary school kids in chess...yeah still got a lot to learn with the game of chess. Saturday was Rustavi day. Lots of meetings with members and the nail lady, if y'all remember her. Her husband got baptized a few weeks ago and we are trying to build a better relationship with her and help her have better church experiences. Sunday was actually chill...well for me it was. Beginning was rough, our water was off again in our apartment. Water randomly turns off here even if you paid the bill. So we took cold showers at the church. Sister Mafi wasn't feeling well and 30 minutes before church started she started to throw up so we went home. I just had a chill day. Studying Georgian and playing ukulele. Yeah that was the week, I feel like more happened but literally can't remember anything. Today we are celebrating Y's birthday with all the sisters and I am stoked😊

 Spiritual thought: Since general conference recently just happened I wanted to talk about one of the talks. Elder Bednar gave an amazing talk on the adversary and likened it to cheetahs preying on a group of topis. He explained their strategy in which they (the cheetahs) would alternate in moving closer to the group of topis. However, once the topis "watchman" saw the cheetahs they would immediately run to safe ground. There was something he said about this analogy that I really liked. After he explained the analogy and the topis were in safe ground he said "Without any delay, the two cheetahs resumed their alternating pattern of one cheetah crouching low and creeping forward while the other cheetah sat upright in the grass. The pattern of pursuit continued. They did not stop. They did not rest or take a break. They were relentless in following their strategy of distraction and diversion. Susan and I watched the cheetahs disappear in the distance, always moving closer and closer to the group of topis." I liked this because the adversary is very much like that. It never stops. We always have to be on the look out. We may have calm times but storms always come. So we need to be prepared and ready for when it hits, so we know what to do. We need to have our own strategy too. Luckily the scriptures is our perfect play book, so we got a lot of help in keeping safe. 

Well that was the week, til next time!

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