Busy with the food, but no gain-Brother Sayo

Hello friends,

This quote comes from a brother in our ward.  We were teaching a lesson to him and he kept looking at his arms.  To picture this guy think of a really tall, really skinny guy.  A toothpick.  After five minutes of looking at his arms and us just wondering what is gonna come out of his mouth.  That is what he said.  It nearly  put me on the floor.  Now on to the good stuff.

Story Number 1: OHHHHH! YOU JUST GOT BURNED!

This week we had exchanges on Saturday.  It was super fun because the other Elders in my district are cycling elders, so I got ride a bike all day.  (For Lane,  The bike company is called Giant, 29 size frame, didn't get wheel size.  Same gear stuff we had on the bikes at the resort, 3 in front, 8 in back, not sure what else you want to know). Any who is was super fun.  From about 12 to 5 we were riding bikes through the hills of Mdantsane NU14.  Which in that time every lesson we had dropped so we were in the sun.  I got crazy sunburned.  So these past few days  haven't been the most fun.  Also the shocks and seat aren't that nice so it hurts to sit.  I enjoyed every second of i though.  Except the bumpy parts.  I can still feel them.

Story Number 2: Viper's Tree

Lately I have been having a desire to cut down a really big tree only using an ax.  If your asking why, its because I can......I think.  Any ways, back to the story, I was telling this to a Less Active we are working with.  His stage name is Viper.  Well this came up in context because when we saw him we were near this really big tree.  After I told him my desire he asked, "How old do you think this tree is?"  I replied," Probably about twenty or twenty-one."  The tree is twenty three and was planted when he was a baby, so he literally grew up with the tree.  I thought that was pretty cool.  

It made me think that just like this young man had a constant in his life, so do we.  That constant is God.  He created us and sent us here to earth to live, although we don't always notice or appreciate Him, He is always there. We can learn a lot from trees.

Those have been a couple of my adventures.  Hope you all get some good ones this week.

Elder Tucker