Yo! Hey guys! It was such a crazy week! First of all, zone conference was so good! I mean good enough for me to take notes... which hasn't happened yet 
So it was good. We mostly talked about devices and how we can use them better. It was pretty interesting though, I raised a concern to President Meservy about how sometimes I wish I wasn't in a technology mission so it wouldn't be a distraction. I would just be able to serve a good, faithful mission without having it be a temptation or distraction. Well.... President had ALL the missionaries watch some training videos of Elder Bednar talking about technology. He made a comment about how isolation from technology won't help you overcome anything. A missionary in zone conference said "you cant beat a team you never play." I was just a great learning conference. We also talked about some of the events that took place to put Joseph Smith in Palmyra and how if god could do all those things for him, surely he's done some stuff in our lives to put us here, in this mission, with these people.
Oh and so what exactly happened with my thumb....
I was moving a couch for some missionaries since they were staying in my apartment and I guess I went to fast, so it got caught on a vent and ripped off half my nail. I'm not even sure exactly what happened... but it hurt! I got it checked out Monday night and the doctor guy said there wasn't much he could do... so I just had to basically bandage it all week. It's not too bad though. Just looks gross. I think the part that ripped off might have even re-attached! So I got my fingers crossed for that.
P-day was fun and long because we went up to moonshine beach again and played spike ball and flag football. It was so fun! The Assistants to President and tech elders were there too. Even though I basically played 1 hand... we still played good and had fun.
Throughout the week, we were challenged to clean out our areabooks. Like to find out if potentials are actually interested or not and basically make areabook look better than it is. So we did that for a lot of the time and also helped Jim paint again! That was lots of fun :)). The climax I'd have to say would be yesterday when I CONDUCTED A BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW!!!! Not sure if you remember Corben. The one we taught his first lesson in Arcata... Well awesome news... he's getting baptized today. Super excited for him. It was definitely interesting conducting a baptismal interview since we don't exactly get trained on that. Funny thing happened (cant remember if I mentioned it)... we got a referral named Daddy Deaton. When we called the number... instead of saying "Hey daddy" I made sure to say "Hey Mr Deaton." We arent sure if its real or not. The names these days are getting ridiculous!
There was this super cool talk I read on Saturday called "Know thyself, control thyself, give thyself." The title is kinda explanatory of what it was about, but there was an awesome quote that stuck out to me. "It’s one thing to be born with ability to succeed; it’s another thing to harness it and to control it." A different comment comment said how we are literal offspring of diety. We are born to succeed. How incredible is that. I know that we are children of god and all have the potential to be just like him. We just have to know how to control that potential and face towards him.
I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had that have led me up to this point. The trials, the miracles and all the in between. I know that God has put YOU in YOUR circumstances for a reason. What will you do with it? Hope you have a great week! I love you all! Btw, my address is 4242 Walnut Dr Apt 3 Eureka CA 95503
Love Elder Larson
Painting round 2!
Bathroom pic
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