Report from Tacoma, Week 2

This past week has been awesome! All the weeks here are awesome. It's gotten super cold, as well has foggy. One morning we woke up and the fog was so dense, you could barely see across the street. It definitely made driving fun that day.

I had my first opportunity to attend a Branch Council meeting this past Sunday. Our Branch President is awesome and he's super excited to have four missionaries. He is from the DR, which makes understanding him a little bit challenging, but it is slowly getting easier and easier. Spanish is coming slowly, but surely. It is funny because we have a Spanish branch, but almost all of the members speak English as well, which takes a little pressure off, but a lot of the members know that none of us speak Spanish very well, so they enjoy speaking very quickly to us and then seeing our faces because we only caught two or three words from the whole sentence.

Anywho, our Branch has been focusing on Alma 5 for a while, and the Branch President regularly calls branch members up to bear their testimony regarding this chapter. In Branch Council this passed Sunday he shared Alma 5:38-39 with us. Those are some really great verses and I would invite you to read them. He then talked about how in God's eyes, there is no gray area. I also read a talk about the four types of missionaries. It talked about how if there was a straight line, between God and Satan, and you were on that line, you are always moving. There is no standstill. You are either progressing towards God, or regressing to Satan. We need to make sure that we are always growing closer to God.

Elder Tobler