Last night I went to a fellowship party at the Wright's house. They are hosting some foreign exchange students, and they invited me to come! There were a lot of other teens there, and the two that I got to know the most were the two exchange students living at their house. The one from Thailand had a long name that was difficult for me to pronounce, and so we just called her Fa. The one from Spain's name was Carmen. They both liked music, and liked the guitar music I played. There were these other guys that brought along some real electric guitars, and they serenaded the party for a little bit. We played some name games and whatnot, then we watched some videos, we listened to music, and we even got to play a board game that I brought along. It was a great time. Foreign exchange students are so cool! I find it really cool to be able to speak two languages very fluently. And the accents are totally awesome. Just being around these people made me think: "wow, there actually are other countries with people and teens and stuff." It was a great cultural experience.
This morning I listened to a talk by John Hilton III called The Dog Ate My Scriptures on CD. I forgot that we had it, and I didn't even remember listening to it before until I recognized some of the things that he said in the talk. It was a very very inspiring talk about responsibility and agency. I am responsible for the person I become and the decisions I make. This statement is like, this stage of my life's theme. It is my choice to act however I want to act, regardless of what other people do or what my environment is. I can choose to be happy anywhere, even in a Nazi death camp. I will find ways to get jobs done, just like Nephi. The power is MINE!
The testimony meeting today was pretty good. A lot of very inspiring testimonies from all of the ward members. I bore my testimony of the Plan of Salvation today. After that Sunday school was pretty neat. We discussed Isaiah and the significance of the Priesthood in the family. It was very interesting to me and helped me understand some things that I didn't. I was called to give the lesson in Priesthood meeting today, and the teacher wasn't even there! It was just me and Parker in the room, all by ourselves. So I gave my lesson titled What Faith Isn't and went into some attributes of Christ and their opposites for me one-man audience. I challenged him to study about the Christlike attributes that we didn't go into today and try to apply them to his life.
Today my father and I were planning on doing some home teaching, but one of the ones that we tried to meet were home.
I took a little nap today; I was tired from the long party last night. Tonight I will get to bed early so that I can start keeping promises to myself tomorrow with a strong and alert mind!
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