March 3, 2014
F.O.M.O.
Acronym of the week: F.O.M.O Fear of missing out. One of the
things I worry about most is the fear of missing out. So this acronym has
inspired me to live more, and go do things that I normally wouldn’t do. I need
to live this moment more fully. And that is my dare to you guys this week.
Having the fear of missing out is one of the best "fears" we can have
because it inspires us to live more in the moment. Then you notice things that
you’ve never noticed before. This is what God wants for us, is to live every
moment. He wants us to notice every creature that crawls on this earth. Enjoy
the beauty of every mountain, every wrinkle of every face, everything on this
earth is for us to either learn from, or enjoy. We should even enjoy the times
that suck because we need to know the suck to realize the good. That is my semi
deep thought of the week.
So this was the
fastest week of my life. And it was super dope. Well I have good news and bad
news... I will start with the good cause I like the good news more. I had
a great week and learned a lot, and we had a great time at the visitor’s center
with our investigators. Many of them saw the temple and could feel the power
and the holiness there. Many had the desire to get baptized when they saw the
temple so that really strengthened my testimony of the temple. So that’s the
good news!
Now the bad news. Totally just got straight out robbed this week haha. We were straight
walking down the Lopez at 5:30am, in the morning with the sisters, taking them
to the taxi station because one of the sisters had a doctors appointment. Then
two hommies (strangers, never seen them in my life), straight flexin on the
curb stood up and told us to go over and face the wall. And out of nowhere a
car just pulls out of some alley and a guy hops out of the car and grabs me,
and the other two grabbed my comp, and pushed us against the wall. The freaking
guy that had me was pretty ripped but I had like a whole foot on this fella so I
was tempted to try to fight him (and this was my thought process). My comp is
mui tai champion and he would knock out the other two guys, and then save me
from the other guy haha. But, the spirit was just like "take it easy"
and it was a super strong feeling/voice so that was cool. We didn’t bring
anything besides like our cell phone, and keys so they were outa luck. My comp
had his planner and that’s it. So they pretty much chose the wrong people to
rob. The guys took the sisters scriptures and I was like screaming for them,
and the guy that had me was at the car with all the stuff they had robbed from
us. Then, I asked super loud for the scriptures and the guy at the car just
looked at me, and pulled out a pistol from the back of his pants just like in
the movies, and pointed it at me… so I thought I was dead. So I just straight
turned around and waited for him to either shoot me, or leave. The longest 20
seconds of my life but the guy just left and I didn’t die, so this is actually
more good news than bad haha.
But anyway that was
pretty rad, but anyway kids I love you and will talk to you next week.
Love your
cellphone-less Elder Rodabough
P.S. I’m the white
sheep in an all black fold son!!!! (minus the other white kid but he doesn’t
count)
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