The climax of this week was the dutch oven cook off. It was good, we had the place prepared for about 300 people and about 60 or 70 people came. Oops... haha, it was a good time though! There was a contest for the Dutch Oven cooking and for those that brought desserts. The most entertaining part was the watermelon eating contest. Haha, watermelon is harder to eat fast than you would think. Well at least for me. All us missionaries competed in the watermelon one. Well, all of us except for the one that is allergic and would die if she ate it. Just kidding, not that serious but, she was allergic! Anyway my companion tooking all. I don't know how he did it. I was thoroughly impressed that he didn't through up. Elder Stone got like two thirds of the way through it and he threw up, I got video of it. Crappy video but, I got it none the less.
Anyway, push comes to shove and my companion was sick all day yeaterday. Maybe he is alllergic too. We ought to get that checked. Haha.
Something that I have been studying about recently is change. Well, repentance but, specifically the pattern of change. How to do it. What works, what the scriptures have to say about it. From what I have so far and what God has led me to understand for me is that, change always starts with desire. Really everything starts with desire, this is a pattern of living too. And for that desire to lead to any sort of action or accomplishment we have got to be committed. We must have goals and plans that we are committed to so that they actually happen and result with change and blessings we are searching for. For me it is getting from desire to committment. That is the hard part. I know that I when I have something I want to do and it doesn't happen I look back and it's I was lying to myself. I told my self that I
Elder Hamson
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