You Can Play With Your Friends After The Harvest! +Bars

Be excited for this life, we all get a certain chance
Happiness is from the focus, and little from circumstance


My new comp is great
Work the area night and day
We grinding for little pay
Straight and narrow is the gate, and the way,
To eternal life
Don't let a chance to share the gospel pass you by!


We have a goliath of an area for biking. It's completely radical. There is so much potential here! My companion and I are whitewashing (we are both new to the area), so we are learning a ton every day. It's a lot of fun because the west side is a ton of apartments, and the east side is pretty nice housing, so we got a good mix of people and areas. We also are just surrounded by desert in 3 directions so that is pretty awesome. 


I will share a miracle.


We were biking home, and we heard a "help." In the rocks a ways from the road, there was an older man lying on the rocks. His legs were scraped up and bleeding. There was another man there who was probably about 30. Apparently he had heard the old man calling for help, and came over, but the old man didn't have his phone or remember his phone number. He was just sitting there with the old man because he wouldn't let him call the police. We were in a weird spot, but we were able to lift the old man to the sidewalk. He couldn't walk. He remembered his address, so we biked there and got his family to come pick him up. They had been looking for him for over 2 hours. They were so grateful, and they kept saying how God had put us in the right place at the right time.


When we are in tune with the spirit, we will be able to see miracles. I was so grateful to be able to help that family. 


I recommend that everyone now reads 2 Nephi 2. Understanding the great Plan of Redemption is so important. 


Get your education, don't forget from whence you came!
Elder Sheppert


-house mates of the past
-the moon in glorious HD perfection 
-the end of civilization



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