Interesting and Hard Doctrine to Live

Elder Pinyon sent me 2 emails. 1 email for the blog update and the other email was for photos. Here's this week's update.

"This week has been an amazing week. We had a baptism on Saturday, his name is Alex and he is 12 years old. I gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost on Sunday at church and it was really amazing. I felt so good doing it.

I really miss everyone back at home, but I know that I am doing the Lords work and I am happy to be doing it, it's just hard at the moment. I learnt something really cool the other day about the scripture from Exodus 20:12. It says: Honour thy Father and thy Mother. What I learnt is that this also includes our Heavenly Parents, so when Heavenly Father asks us to do something then we need to do that and to put His desires first before anyone else's.

It's a really interesting and hard doctrine to live, because we as people don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, maybe because we are people pleasers instead of God pleasers. I am going to try and start living this doctrine I unlocked the other day and see if I can change :) Everything else is just great though. I love you all my dear friends and God bless you all, that you may find the truth one day.

All the way from Germany, your friend
Elder Jacob Pinyon :)

Sent from Elder Pinyon"

A few friendly reminders; the photos will be uploaded on Facebook under "MTC and Mission Photos" album and also the photos will be posted under "Mission Photos" Section on this blog.

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Lucky to be alive

I liked reading this week's email update and it was nice chatting back and forth with Elder Pinyon this week. I love how he sends me a new email under a new subject for the blog's update. He is very sneaky of doing that.

This is what Elder Pinyon said,
"Everything is going really great here in Oldenburg. The only problem is that it's stinking hot :( it's like 34C and 38C I really don't like it, but it shouldn't last long until winter comes again. Just hope it
comes fast, because it is super hot for the last few days. Luckily most of it is dry heat, but we also have no wind because I am in land. So it's a bit different. It reminds me of my first area when we had
42-45C one day. I just hope it doesn't hit that high. Bring back the snow I say!!!!

Oh on Tuesday we went out in the morning and ip the seat of my bike fell off as I was riding it, so we went home, I fixed it and my companion and I traded bikes. My companion forgot to tell me one
thing, that his bike has a loose chain on it. So we are riding to the church for Gemiko (ward missionary correlation( that's the German name)) and we are going to be late, so I crank my bike into top gear and pedal as fast as possible and it wouldn't change over, so I just tried going faster and faster, so it'd change over.

As I did that it finally changed over, but the chain came off jamming the chain between the gears and the wheel. My bike tyre started flying and my front wheel went crazy and my companion thought I was a goner (luckily I wasn't, because it was our new mission presidents first day, would've been a bad start for him).

I somehow got control of my bike after 5 seconds of it going crazy on me. I know God was protecting me, because in the oncoming traffic was a car about to hit me if I had of fallen off. Just like at the end of Doctrine and Covenants 84:88 "I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.". I like it better in German though, it says "Ich werde zu eurer rechten Hand sein und zu eurer linken, und mein Geist wird in eurem Herzen sein und meine Engel rings um euch, um euch zu stützen."  I was really protected by Gods angels for some reason 😊 I am just glad to be alive though.

I finally got to meet my new mission president and he is so great. He is a man definitely called of God. He doesn't want to focus on baptism, but he would rather focus on eternal life, which doesn't stop at baptism, it only starts there and never finishes, because it's eternal. When we look at the gates of eternal life and we see that is open, because we as members open the gate, they will see along the
path which leads to the tree of life, the temple. Because this part of progress is just as important as baptism!!! President and Sister Fingerle are really great and we get to see them next week at a zone
conference!!!

Sent from Elder Pinyon"

I suggest you to always remember to pray for friends and relatives who are on their missions to be protected.

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I Am Now 20

While Elder Pinyon and I was emailing each other back and forth, I refreshed my email. I saw that I received a new email from Elder Pinyon (very sneaky of him) and the subject was "blog stuff :D" I clicked on the email and saw the update.

Here's what he said;
"Life is going great over here in Germany. I woke up this morning feeling weird, knowing that I am now 20, but I am just enjoying myself and am loving my new area. Adjusting to my new area has been pretty easy this time, which is really nice. It has been the easiest out of all 4. So that is really great. Also that I have a super great companion that is just super awesome makes life so much easier. It is also weird because I knew my companion before I got transferred into here. So it made the whole getting to know each other part a little less awkwarder, haha.

Our week was super busy tho and being a Zone Leader again just reminds me of my last area a little bit and I keep calling my new area my old area, but it will all become normal soon. The Zone is going great though, especially for Germany. We really want to build a stake of Zion in this zone. We are still living in a district, just like my home.

We just had a baptism before I got here and the son of the the new member will be getting baptised in a few weeks, so I am really excited for that. It will be so sweet to see him get baptised. He is a 12 year old and his mother and him live together and they love each other, they are such a cute family.

Also on my second day, I found out that my area is HUGE. We have bikes and I think we rode about 60-80km that day (According to the map). I was absolutely dead after that day, but so far being here, I have lost about 2-3 Kg, so I am excited to keep shredding them if I can. Also on Saturday we had our Kinder fest (childrens festival), what happens there is there is a lot of stations and there are about 20 Russian children that come over and they come and enjoy themselves with all the games that are available. So we were on the balloon station. We had a few investigators there and also our new convert. It was a lot of fun.

On Sunday I gave a talk for my first Sunday. I introduced myself and then I gave a talk about Jarom 1:11 and how we can become a bishops ward. They really loved it and they want to work with us a lot so they can bring their friends to the Gospel, so it is really great :D
I am loving the mision and everything"

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