Broken hearts and contrite spirits

 what the crap is up fam bam?? 

I suppose I should prob update yall on the recent changes heh

Im currently in the Columbia YSA ward serving with my MTC comp and legend: Sister Coltrin 😻😻 (not to be confused with John Coltrane🤓) its been incredibly blessed here in ysa, we have the USC campus in our area so we meet lots and lots of people everyday. When we whitewashed into this area (meaning we came in brand new together)(no previous missionary to show us around) they had been consistently finding between 3 and 5 new people to teach a week and this week we found 48 peeps interested and wanting to be taught🙏 

its def weird being in the city - everyone here is a tweaker 😻 

- we found a guy mid rap video recording so he featured us in the music video (its horrible dont worry) his name is Rich Gunna Big Unc Da OG (he'll be famous someday)

- met a guy today who speaks Arabic, Hebrew, and English - hes part of the Moroccan government, and joins government zoom calls from over here. he also doesnt have a phone. so not sure how the logistics work on all that but I believe anything Leo tells me😊

- met a guy named DJ Parks (shout out Parks Russell🤑) whos a christian dj and got personally invited to their next event 😻 (we're definitely going) 

- we meet at least 6 people a week named either Montrell, Daquan, or some variation of Emanuel, Immanuel, or Ammanuel. 

- also met some sorority girls who lived in Logan last summer and became besties with Brother Chang from institute and tried not to shoot my foot for 30 minutes as they tried to explain how the trinity makes sense and why we're going to hell for not believing in it😜 they hugged us afterwards so no hate🙏🙂‍↕️

- had SO many beautiful lessons and miracles and just inspired interactions. The amount of people we talk too who tell us we were an answer to a prayer, or brought them some light, or helped them to feel God's love makes all these insufferable sorority baptist girls worth it 🤞🙂‍↕️ nah I actually do really love to learn about all the religions out here. attended church of Christ this past Sunday on base, (ooh also I teach the soldiers about the gospel on base every Sunday up at Fort Jackson)(they're incredibly humble and cool the spirit is always so strong there)(its so blessed) 

 its cool how much more prone to feeling the spirit we are when we're in those low and desperate moments. Broken hearts and contrite spirits are open enough to cry out to God, to read scriptures, to seek wisdom and peace. To seek God and His Son! when I think back to some of my most spiritual experiences they all occurred when I was low and humble enough to reach out to God and rely on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. 

go read Galatians 2:20 its like top ten fav verses ever. 

ok anyway theres a phat info dump for you hope you all are doing so very well - send me some updates ay sorry its been forever since ive emailed heh. My bad 😜 but ya loving it here in ysa, we watched Lego bible videos during our last member meal if that explains what its like being in ysa, all the members are like 28 and either chill asfreak or autistic (or both😎) i love it.

and I love you! 🫵 stay blessed 

- bec