Birthdays, Break ins, and a Waterfight (Week 4)

This week has been an interesting one for sure. Elder Ki had to
go home for surgery on his ankle but he'll be able to come back soon.
He's an awesome guy, we were super close and I'm sure he'll be back.

Also this week, we had like 3 birthdays in a row, which meant a lot of
cupcakes and even more bad ideas for lighting candles. We tried arcing
electricity out of an outlet, shorting out the iron and rubbing bottle
caps together before we found some matches. Elder Freeze's birthday
was first, and as such it was the wildest. We had hats, noise makers,
an entire funfetti cake, and zero utensils. Thank goodness we didn't
set a smoke alarm off.

Some of the Elders around here were getting a little angsty, and
somehow that led to a garbage can full of cold water being thrown over
me. I told them they'd be sorry and they only laughed. But I had a
plan.

To send elder Ki off, we had this huge waterfight on our floor.
One Elder made cardboard armor, and he and some of the older Elders
were kidnapping people and pouring scalding water bottles on people.
We tried to rescue them, and it got crazy. Eventually we decided to
put all our squirtguns in a box and hide it in the ceiling.

God loves all of us, I'm sure of it. He loves us enough to give us
occasion to be patient, and he allows us to be tried so we might be
able to come closer to him through the atonement. All things are for
our good, even those that bring us down. Everyone has things they're
dealing with so pray for patience and love. That's probably one of the
most valuable lessons I've learned here.

Elder Thomas