Alright so I will just get right to the
fun stuff for this week! First off Sunday was an awesome day! We had a
Southern States broadcast from Salt Lake which was really cool. Elder
Bednar presided and gave an awesome talk about repentance and how our
faith in Jesus Christ is what makes repentance more than just a changing
of ways, it is what makes us clean from our sins. It was a super good
broadcast, almost like a miniature General Conference!
After
the broadcast a large group of missionaries got invited to stay at the
St. Charles building to be part of a missionary choir that would be
going to sing that evening at a Baptist Church that was holding a
memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr. We sang 'I Believe in
Christ' and 'As I Have Loved You.' It was super cool and we also got to
hear a real Southern Baptist Preacher talk which is always fun! I wish I
had a video for y'all so y'all could experience just how crazy and fun a
Baptist Church can be out here haha!
On Monday
we got to march in the New Orleans MLK day parade. I was a little
skeptical about how well it would go having a bunch of missionaries
passing out pass-along cards in an MLK parade but man it was probably
one of the most fun things I have done on the mission! We passed out
thousands of cards and it was super fun to meet and talk to some of the
people that we handed cards to! All the little kids got so happy when
you walked up to them to hand them a card! About seven or so of us
walked out on the side of the parade on the grass where people were
sitting in the back and passed out cards to them since they werent right
at the edge where everyone else was passing them out. We even ran
across the street on the far side a couple times to give the people over
there cards! It was so freaking fun! I'm sad that I will probably never
get to do that again..... but I'm glad I got this experience.
After
the parade, all 60-70 of us missionaries walked to a restaurant named
Mother's and the Stake President, President Stock, payed for all of us
for lunch! Like dang that is pretty darn generous! I can only imagine
how much it cost but he is an amazing guy!
Well
that is the excitement for the week! I hope that all is well with
everyone and that the New Years resolutions are still going strong! I
love y'all!
Elder Nathan Stoddard
