Say "Idiosyncrasy" in Spanish

The view in Unicoi 

Buenos!

It's been a pretty good week here in the Watauga ward. We have been going hard with the church's Easter initiative, Prince of Peace. We've been dishing out cards left and right and trying to show the new video with everyone! We've done some other fun things as well. Every Tuesday, as service, we get together with the other missionaries in Johnson City and some other members and go sing to old people in nursing homes. We mostly just sing little tunes like “This Little Light of Mine”, or “She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain”, or “Amazing Grace”, etc. It's a lot of fun. We also sing the UT fight song "Rocky Top," so it's been fun getting to learn the words to that.

Our area also covers two little towns south of Johnson City, Unicoi and Erwin, and so on Saturday we went down and did a lot of work there. Two of our top investigators live in Erwin. One is C, who is an older lady who is trying to work towards being re-baptized after leaving the church a long time ago. She has been doing a great job with keeping all her commitments, and came to church yesterday, so she's doing really good. The other is M, who committed to be baptized at the end of April, but we're not sure if she'll be ready by then. She wasn't at church this week, but hopefully she'll come next week.

Also this Sunday, I got to do a little translating! So.much.fun...Goodness, translating is so hard, but it's good. There is one Spanish brother in the ward, Hno. U. They just started a temple-prep class, and so the teacher invited me to come in and sit with Hno. U and translate for him. It was going pretty well until the teacher used the word "idiosyncrasy." He looked at me and said, "Try to say that in Spanish!" We had a good laugh about it. I'm excited to be able to help Hno. U though. Hopefully he'll continue to make progress, and be able to go to the temple soon!

My ponderizer this week is John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Jesus Christ truly is the Prince of Peace. It is only through Him that our world can find lasting peace, and His Gospel is the only lasting solution to our problems. The same is true for each of us individually. Christ can calm our troubled souls and give us the assurance that we need to overcome the challenges in our lives. As the hymn reads, "Sweet is the Peace the Gospel Brings." I hope y'all have a great week! 

Love,
Elder Mitchell