I decided to extend fun Friday to last instead of just this Friday but all of this wonderful Easter month! Each day I will be hiding this 
Fun friday??? What shall I talk about??? Well today I will talk about something I think is fun then maybe if ya'll tell me what you find fun then I'll talk about that. So what is fun to Elder Walker.... POLITICS!!! AHHHhhhh... yeah I know that sounds boring... so what shall I talk about that is fun????... Story Time???? YES that's it I'll write ya'll a story in which you are sure to enjoy. So here goes funothing...
Once upon a time there lived a very burly man.
For lack of a better name we'll call him Burly. Burly was a prideful man who didn't really understand the meaning of sharing. He wanted everything to himself and made dang sure that it was his way or the highway. One day a man who he despised became his boss. Burly was not too happy by any means.
He set out to make his boss's life living heck. Now on the other side of things his boss
Brad Olsen once again for lack of my mind being able to think of any name much cooler and because I myself don't want to sound prideful and use my own name... so I will just use Brad Olsen, was one of the most charitable men ever! So any who, Brad Olsen was the type that didn't really worry about himself at all, he just simply wanted to help out all those that he was in charge of. He was completely fine with giving his service for free just because he understood the importance of charity. Burly didn't like this at all, for he was a money man and he wouldn't do anything if it didn't involve more money for himself. He truly didn't understand the importance of sharing.
Burly set out to make dang sure that Brad was hated by everyone and that he himself was actually right. He tried his hardest and as time went on he started to succeed. The people that were under Brad started to think that he was bad for them. Brad didn't fully understand why, but he didn't care either. He ignored all the attacks and just continued to be as charitable as he knew how. He tried working with Burly, but Burly just didn't want to swallow his pride. In the end Burly and his conniving tactics almost ruined the entire idea of charity, but Brad would not stop his charitable ways for anyone. He knew that the right thing to do is be of Charity. As time went on, years passed Brad eventually gained his respect back as one of the most Charitable men ever. We must be as Brad and whatever happens to us as we are Charitable to take it with a grain of salt and never step down from being that Christ-like individual who is full of Charity!
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| Don't Let signs like this discourage you from Charity |
These next coming weeks Elder Dye and I have the awesome opportunity to help out a the pay it forward festival for the Spring Hill community! Be waiting for a blog on how that was! I hope ya'll liked my story on charity and learn for yourself that we all should understand what made Brad tick... Charity!
There is now officially going to be a set schedule for a couple of the days of the week Tuesdays will for now on be "Tired of me Tuesday" in which I will post a blog entry from someone else. Today is from my Sister who is serving her mission in Atlanta Georgia. Recently I got an email from her in which I would like to share with ya'll!
"Good news! We have the Truth!-I have never before appreciated this more than when I went to another churches services right before conference. They are great people. They are doing much good with what they have but my heart longs for what they do not have. Temples to bind families, the Book of Mormon, The authority called the Priesthood, A prophet that communes with God....I feel so blessed to have the Whole truth! I felt the feelings of having the full truth at General Conference. My favorite talk was Elder Holland's because if taught me to treat everyone like they want the full truth and are not members- YET.
More information for the coming week:
Monday: "Musical Monday"
Tuesdays: "Tired of me Tuesday"
Fridays: "Fun Friday"
Elder Dye and I were walking down the street the other day wondering how we can cope with each others sarcasm better when I started rambling on as I usually do about nothing. This is in essence what came out of my mouth which for now on will be known to Elder Dye and I as the parable of the dead bunnies.
One day a bunny was crossing the street when a car driving along the road hit it. The car realizing there was no way the bunny was alive left the bunny behind and continued driving off.
And finally on a third day another bunny was yet again crossing the street. A third man ran into this bunny slammed on his breaks and got out of the car seeing the bunny dead of the ground still gets out his knife and stabs the bunny in the head.
Knowing all three bunnies were dead on impact who did the right thing? Man 1, 2, or 3? As Elder Dye and I contemplated the gibberish of the words that I just spoke we realized that these dead bunnies did relate perfectly to our sarcasm as well as our trials in life. First how it relates to sarcasm: Man one hits or encounters someones rude sarcasm and just ignores it moving forward. Man two encounters this same sarcasm get's offended and goes out of his way to worry about what was said. Then man three not only encounters this sarcasm but he goes completely out of his way to end that of which bothered him most. Man one chose the best and most Christlike choice to move on. A better way of looking at this parable is how we face trials. Man one hits a trial and moves on. Man two hits a trial then goes back and doesn't learn seeing as he has to face that same trial again and Man three get's overly aggravated at his trials. We must be man one and just simply move on!
Today has been such a slow day. Nothing to do and things just haven't been looking as good as they should
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin' when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neighborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?
You know what better way to look at life. Sometimes it does suck but if we just always remember. IT's a great day to be alive. WOW what could stop us from spreading the joy we have!!!
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| Even in the saddest times: Let's be the outcast. Spread the joy! |
So you might be wondering why on earth is there now a game on a missionaries blog? Well it's obviously not for me since I can't play it, but it's for you to better understand sin in a fun way! Now as you play this game keep in mind this analogy. The ball is sin. Your paddle is the protection that God has given us. And the opposite end is Satan with all his many tactics. Many times Satan tries to throw the curve balls of sin at us and it is up to us to use what God has given us to avoid those temptations actually getting to us by throwing them right back at Satan. Try for yourself show Satan who is boss with this fun game!
I love pictures. There is an old saying that pictures speak 1000 words so from this point forward I will be using pictures only in this blogpost! I want you to learn from it what you may. Then comment what you have learned from the pictures. Yes they will tell a story and yes it will relate to the gospel. In a latter post I will write what I thought as I did this, but keep in mind there are no wrong answers to what you get out of these pictures.
