Elder Jaron Larson: Valentine's!!!

Happy Valentine's day! I know it hasn't happened yet and I think it's a good thing I don't have a Valentine to send anything :). Our week was so wild! Us as a companionship sat down and figured out our differences so that's good.

Funny story... Elder Jones set a return appt with a guy in a shower

. It was one of the showers where it was a small window at the top of the bathroom and we talked to him while he was showering, it was hilarious! Sadly he flaked his return appointment :(.

Angelina didn't like the lesson we had with her lol, we talked about baptism because she plans on having her baby baptized Catholic... we think she thought we were pushing her into it all. So now we gotta be a little stand-offish.

Manuel we think is doing better, he loves meeting with us and he loves reading from the Book of Mormon... so we'll just let him stay that way lol.

A thought came up in an email with my uncle and I loved it. Speaking of the story in Luke 5, "Peter has been out all night and has not caught one fish. Imagine how hard that would be to NEED fish to feed your family, to sell, to live and you go out all night and catch nothing. Peter is cleaning his nets when Jesus comes on his boat and asks Peter to cast out his boat a little, basically so Jesus can use it as a pulpit and teach the people. After he teaches, the Savior asks Peter to go a little further and cast out his net. Peter is the fisherman and Jesus is the carpenter. Surely the fisherman who has been out all night knows better but Peter does as he is asked. Peter casts his net and gets so much fish that the net begins to break; they have to call their friends with another boat to help them with all the fish and there is so much fish that both boats begin to sink. I wondered why Christ wouldn't just bless the nets not to break or not have him catch so much fish or something else but if He could make a miracle of many fish, why go to that extreme on the amount? The scripture in Malachi 3, about tithing, comes to mind. 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

I have never put those two scriptures/stories together but for me, it is such a

powerful example that all Jesus asked was for Peter to put down his net. All he

asks of us is 10% in tithing. All He asks is to minister once a month or do our

calling or whatever, whatever, whatever, and He blesses us so much that there

is not enough room to receive the blessings."

Malachi 3:10 is one of my favorite scriptures when talking about blessings from

god.

So grateful for all of you! Love ya!

Love Elder Larson