Category: James

10: A new area!Now that I am in my 3rd area, I am no longer considered a ‘new missionary!’

9: A STOVE!!!! HALLELUJAH!!! Now that I am in a normal apartment, I have an actual kitchen instead of a cabinet and a microwave. The only hard part is that it’s not well stocked, so I’m going to be buying some basic kitchen stuff in these next couple of weeks. 

8: Late Mexicans let me play the cello! We share a ward with the Spanish elders, so we have shared dinners, and they were late, so I got a chance to play the ‘decorative’ cello that the Andersen’s had sitting on top of their China cabinet. Unfortunately the G and the D string were wack, and I didn’t want to mess with the pegs too much, so I just played the two outside strings. Plenty of fun, I definitely regret not keeping up with that?

7: Can you break into a sisters apartment? As we were getting out of a dinner on Saturday, we got a call from the sisters, who informed us they had locked themselves out of their apartment, and that they will need some help breaking in later that night. So, at about 9:30 we headed over to the sisters apartment, (they live in the same complex as us) and tried to card their door. No luck. So we went and got the 5th ward elders, because they know how to card a door. Turns out, the sisters door is situated in a way that it can’t be carded. So elder Simper and i head around back, make sure no one is watching, because this would be a difficult situation to explain to the police. After trying the back door, the kitchen window, to no avail we noticed that there is a bedroom window, we asked the sisters if it was locked, and they said no. Bingo! So we yeeted elder Tarazon up to the overhang, and he cut open the screen, slid the window open, and fell through. This whole ordeal took till 10:45

6: Our ward has… problems. There’s not too much I can say about this without disclosing sensitive information, but this will be interesting, not being sure if I want to bring people to church. Yeah, at least I’m not a Spanish elder.

5: lots of board games! Elder Tarazon loves his board games, so in our down hours we have been playing Catan, (pirates and explorers expansion) and boss monster. Lots of fun, especially with more than 2 players.

4: morning racquetball! This morning we played racquetball with President Lowry, the mission presidents 1st councilor. Lots of fun, but has reminded me that I need to start running for morning exercise.

3: I almost forgot my new companion! Elder Tarazon!  He’s from Gilbert AZ, and has been out for ~17 months. We get along well, a little too well sometimes, and while we are talking over breakfast notice that we should be out and about. Oops. We are going to be working on that. 

2: Biscuits and gravy cook off! Not really a cook off, but elder simper and I are going to compare biscuits and gravy recipes tomorrow. Will be fun! 

1: D&C 138 is dope! I love you all, and am doing well in my new area.

If anyone wants to know my address it’s; #### apt # aster Springville OR, 97478

Ya boi, Elder Berky 

10: See ya Merlin/Grants Pass!
We got transfer calls on Friday, and I am going to be heading up to Springfield 3rd ward! I finally am getting my dream fulfilled and living not in the boonies! I’ll be with Elder Tarazon, who has been out for 18 months.

9: Moving. Multiple. Fridges. In our exchange in Cave Junction, one of the families there needed help moving a fridge from their neighbors house to their own. However the one that we were moving that took several hours to figure out how to get out of the kitchen, was the wrong one. That felt good. Then we visited this one lady who wasn’t interested until we asked her if there was any service we could do for her. She needed a broken fridge, a broken oven, and a broken washer. So we grabbed brother Gill and came back with a dolly, and spent forever moving appliances. Should open a business. After all that she was interested in what we did as missionaries. 

8: Strambauchers are cool cars Looking around our areabook, we noticed that we were in the area of a part member family, so we decided to stop by, and see how they were doing. As we were talking, the member showed us his classic car collection, all Strambauchers, in the process of being restored. Very cool, and I got a picture in one off them.

7: Elder O’Bannon will be getting a problem child  The elder coming in to replace me is apparently a “problem child” and Elder O’Bannon is excited. He hasn’t had a difficult companion yet, and he is going to change him to being a good missionary. 

6: A member in our ward passed away Saturday. Leo Freedman was out cutting trees, and his chainsaw bucked and his son found him. We taught Leo earlier that week, and he explained what he did for work. Making wooden bowls. He served in Oregon on his mission, and decided to come back. He is a great man, and I know that he is continuing the missionary work that he started here, only on the other side of the veil.

5: Packing is fun! I’ve realized that I have too much stuff, like desk ornaments, and Christmas decorations. So I’m sending that home. I now have much more space for the really important stuff, like clothes.

4: Church was wack. You’d think that the bishopric would have cancelled the other talks, which were on the self reliance classes, and give a talk about the plan of Salvation. But no, even though Leo’s non-member family were all that there. Then in Priesthood session the discussion drifted to some really obscure deep doctrine that has no scriptural basis. That was fun, might tall with my next ward about what church is, a place for learning basics, and not for deep doctrine.

3: that’s really all I got for this week, I need to keep packing.  Sorry, but stuff gets busy as a missionary, so I’m going to have to get going.

I love you all, and will let ya know if my new address in Springfield. 

That is the main take-away from our meeting with an apostle.

10: Elder Cook came to the mission Because this doesn’t happen often, the whole mission gathered in Eugene. It was great seeing the missionaries that I haven’t seen in some time. But…

9: Standing for an hour on a stage with 151 missionaries can get very hot. In order to get a picture of the whole mission, all 151 missionaries packed onto a stage, and because we wanted to get one with Elder Cook, we stood up there for over an hour while he took his time eating lunch. I did get to chat for a while with everyone though. That was nice.

8: Just before the meeting, we ate at IHOP (for FREE) Because we got up very early for the ride to Eugene, we didn’t really have a breakfast. So we went to a place that I haven’t been since I was a young boy. As we ordered, some members came in, said hi, and sat down. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the members get up and talk to one of the waitresses. It didn’t take much to figure out that they just paid for our food. That was a blessing in disguise, because I have exhausted my eating out fund. I’ve allotted myself $20 for fast food, and I used that all up within the first week of the month. 

7: We have the first uninterrupted week of this transfer. This whole transfer has been weird, and nothing has been normal. Stuff has been postponed, we haven’t done a solid weekly planning session since the beginning of the transfer. Never thought I’d be complaining about that, but here I am. Luckily, this week will be normal, and uninterrupted. 

5: Elder Tinney’s Birthday!  None of you would know him, but it was his birthday on Friday. 

4: A sense of urgency That was the main thing that I took away from the meeting with Elder Cook. Which, to me signifies a couple of things. The work of gathering Zion is becoming increasingly important, because of the difficult times ahead. The only way people will be able to make it through these upcoming decades is with the knowledge of the Gospel. Two, Christ is coming. I will be able to see him come, I have felt this for a while, and have had it confirmed to me by the Spirit. Even now as I type this.

3: Hit gud scrub Last week, when we watched Coco at the Becks, Elder Haws game-shared Dark Souls with Kayden. He finished downloading it, and asked for Elder O’Bannons help. Elder O’Bannon knows that game like the back of his hand; best armor builds, enemy placement, parry timings, everything. Is he helped Kayden out with the eternal Dark Souls mantra. “Git Gud”

2: List of study material is growing  Whenever I have a question about something, and need to take it to the Lord, I just add it to my list of things to study. As I have been working through it, I have found that Gospel Library can help all questions. Anything from finding out the significance of the word father in the Hebrew language/culture to blacks in the priesthood. (Elder O’Bannon is still the reigning authority on that, cause he’s, well, you know… studied it.)

1: Sister Steele gave us a pound cake so dense, the boys at JPL used it as heatshield paneling on the space shuttle. The lady who does our (now only) weekend dinner calendar had us over for dinner, and she baked a cake so dense it bends light. Naturally she gave it to us to finish, cause the Steele’s are an old couple who couldn’t even finish her rice. Sorry I didn’t get a picture of this miracle material.

I love you all, and hope that the new Sunday schedule helps you come closer to having a relationship with Christ, rather than a testimony of the church. One is full of imperfect people, and the other makes those people perfect.

Look closely at who you love most, and evaluate.

Ya boi, Elder Berky 

Well, I would like to First say sorry about not sending an email last week. But Christmas Eve was kinda wack. Christmas was awesome though! Thank you all so much for what you sent me! The sweaters are great, and the blanket is really cool! Unfortunately I can’t really use the new pan, because it needs to get seasoned, and we don’t have an oven to season it in. Or even a hot plate that works well enough. Oh well, that’s fine.

10: We helped clean up Tim’s computer, and helped him set up his VR headset! After seeing how nasty his setup was, Elder O’Bannon spent the next 3 days deep cleaning Tim’s computer, and whole desk. We got to watch him play with a first gen VR game called GORN. It’s really funny to watch him just swing around yelling.

9: I filled up another notebook of twitter thoughts. So to help me cope with my lack of social media, I have 3 character-capped notebooks full of stuff that I’m going post on twitter. As you can expect, it’s all garbage.

8: Jim and Darla are feeling better, and shopping! We haven’t been able to meet with Jim and Darla for the past couple of weeks because they have been sick. However, they got better, and we ran into Darla while shopping!

7: We are going to see Elder Quinton L Cook!  On Friday, the whole mission is going to be gathering in Eugene to hear an Apostle of the Lord!!! I’m also going to see my mission buddies after other Zones!!

6: Deep Fry Night!!! Elder O’Bannon has a deep fryer, and so tonight we are going to be getting FAT!!!

5: I took my first trip the the Dry Cleaners, it was uneventful.4: We had 3 day splits with the Zone Leaders! On the days leading up to Christmas, and after we didn’t go back to our own beds for 3 days. I was running out of new clothing, it was great to get back to our Christmas decorated apartment! (Thanks Seevy’s!!!!)

3: I got Gay Cheerios for Christmas! From some members that we had breakfast with, (in the Zone leader’s ward) gave me these unicorn Cheerios that don’t even taste good. So they are gay.

2: I got a sore throat from all the Christmas sugar! So I got permission to take a nap to get better, and that, along with Vic’s Vapor rub helped me out.

1: I realized that I really don’t want to be in Leadership After hearing about some problems with the sisters in this zone, and in being a small part of the decisions there, I realized that I don’t want to be in Leadership.

I love you all, and hope you have made some good new years resolutions. 

Elder Berky 

Sorry i don’t have more pics, but my phone had been weird.

10: We had a 48hr exchange! We had a 48 hour exchange with cave junction. Usually it’s only 24 hours, but they came in to Grants Pass for a tire change, and it was interviews the next day, so they decided to stay! In our small, box on an apartment. It was good, we went out and did some tracting, and the other elders did plenty of contacting. It was super fun.

9: Christmas party was very rushed. The Christmas party was quite obviously rushed. There were also dad jokes aplenty courtesy of the Bishop. Luckily we left early because;

8: Chopping wood! We went over to the Becks house to chop wood. We almost go through their whole stack of wood, but we had to cut it a little early. We went to our Christmas party, stayed there for long enough, then came back to the Becks to keep chopping wood, and have Tim cook us up some nice cubed steaks.

7: On exchanges we played Axis and Allies, over the course of a couple days. So we were talking with Brother Seevy, our landlord about board games for some reason, and so we played Axis and Allies for a whole 2 days. That was not fun. We stayed up till 2 playing that.

6: Interviews We had interviews with President Orton, and it went really well, except everything was a whole hour late. 

5: Helped move a lady from the ZL’s ward That’s why this is coming out later than I wished, but that’s okay, we helped someone out.

4: We had a district council about Blacks in the Priesthood. Elder O’Bannon has studied the crap out of the whole issue of the Blacks in the Priesthood. So that was really cool. Putting it really simply; Everyone was racist back then, and hated the church even more for treating black people well. So if the church kept treating black people well, then the church might not have survived because of people’s hate and anger.

3: Crockpots are easy I made one of the soups that could be done in the crockpot and it was really good. But no one wanted to try it. That was sad. But I got to enjoy all of it.

2: Morning basketball Very fun, especially because the church is right next to us. I might be getting really good at basketball.

1: Christmas is coming!!!!! Christmas is going to be really fun! We are going to be watching Incredibles 2!!!! We are also going to be getting a ton of ribs at the Becks!! Smoked Prime Rib, here we come!!!!

Love you all, merry Christmas, remember the reason for the season, but more importantly, he’s the reason for life.

10: Elder O’Bannon is my new Companion! So Elder Sant went back to the coast, in the area that he wanted to serve in. (Good for him!) And I got Elder O’Bannon, who just came from the coast! When he walked in the apartment he said something to the effect of; “this is a significant downgrade, but hey, it’s clean!” He’s a great guy who wants to work hard, which is what this area needs. Someone who will work hard and not waste time, which I am prone to do.

9: The whole zone changed! Only one companionship stayed the same. There is a whole new dynamic in this zone, nothing really stayed the same. (except the Riverside sisters, but they are in Leadership now.) Cave junction got Elder Randall, my buddy from Central Point, and Elder Palesh, my Buddy from Central Point is my new Zone Leader! We also got my buddy from Central Point, Elder Seegmiller! Yeah, a lot of Central Point blood, just about 40 minutes from it!

8: WE made dinner for some MEMBERS. Yeah, in a little bit of a regime change, we made dinner for The Becks. Once on Wednesday (Steaks) and once on Saturday (Burgers). The reasoning behind it is; Since they are lazy, they don’t make nice, good dinners unless they have company over. We are usually that company, and because of the dinner change, they haven’t had a nice dinner in a while. I forget the reasoning for why we made them dinner, but we just raided their place, and found what we could do with what they had. It was fun, and I learned that burgers shrink so much on the grill. We started off with about 15 plate sized patties, and ended up with 15 burgers no bigger than a flip-phone.

7: Elder O’Bannon really likes his Gospel music. A LOT. So this whole week, I’ve been listening to the good music about the good Lord above (HallELUJAH!!!) Everything from Kirk Franklin, to Stevie Wonder, to The Winans. 

6: Finally, some good solid tracting. So after about a transfer of not really doing tracting, Elder O’Bannon is ready and kicking to go out. So we used the information that Elder Sant and I gathered. We have been tracting as much as we could! I’m so pumped to finally be doing something.

5: I found our Nativity! Our stake had a big Nativity festival, where a bunch of people brought their different Nativities. There were over 400! Everything from Fisher Price Nativities to a whole table spread, with  buildings and everything. It was really cool, there was a jazz band, an acapella choir, and all sorts of confections. It was great, I found our Nativity!

4: Elder Holland stayed my Zone Leader! So we are going to carry on the tradition of playing Cataan for weeks on end.

3: Elder O’Bannon does NOT play around with big dogs. Of course, being a missionary means you meet a dog or two, but being a missionary in Oregon means that EVERY HOUSE YOU GO TO HAS 2-3 DOGS!! There must be a law here in Oregon that everyone needs to have a big dog, and a small dog. Elder O’Bannon is not a fan of that. So whenever we hear a big ol’ WOOF on the other side of the door, he flinches. It’s kinda funny. Except when a Pitbull tears around a corner and he’s going to leave me in the dust to fend off “sweet Peaches”.

2: We got to teach  Young  Mens! Elder O’Bannon loves teaching about Blacks in the Priesthood, but has rarelly gotten a chance to, so he will JUMP at the opportunity to explain that “anti”. It’s ridiculously easy to disprove/explain.

1: This Transfer is going to be super wack. So this Transfer is going to go like this;Week 1: Transfers, a very weird week, still getting into the swing of things with a new CompWeek 2: Interviews with President, throws the whole week off Week 3: Scone (Zone) Conference, throws the whole week out of wack. Week 4: CHRISTMAS!!!! I’m not going to think about anything else that week, except for Christmas, getting to call home, zone activities, and watching a movie Week 5: New Years, not that special, but we get to watch a movie, so that will be fun.Week 6: The only Normal week.
I love all of you, and wish that you’re applying the #lighttheworld campaign that the church put out. It’s really cool, and people like it, or rather the friendly ones. 

Merry Christmas, Elder Berky

10: Elder Sant is getting transferred, and I’m getting Elder O’Bannon! Yep, I’m getting my 4th Companion. Elder Sant is going to Coquille, and Elder O’Bannon is coming from… I forgot to find out. Oops.

9: I smashed my Pinky in the car door, ouch. I don’t even know how it happened, I shut the car door, looked over, and my pinky was sandwiched in between 2 doors. I looked at it for a solid couple of seconds, then pulled it out. It hurt a lot, but luckily the lesson that we were having went short enough that I could get back and ice it.

8: Got to look at some pretty sweet guns!  When we went over to Jim and Darla’s they offered to show us some of their SWEET guns. As any good American, they had enough to defend a small village. Anything from a 60-yr old .20 gauge shotgun to a ceremonial Browning .22 that Jim got for $300 when it’s valued at over $3500, to a small 1-shot Ruger (I forget the caliber)

7: We helped set up our landlord’s Christmas Tree!  That title is kinda misleading, (I should be a mainstream journalist!) they’re not really our landlords, They’re members that we live with. That was kinda confusing, but on the real point, we set up their Christmas tree with them! Then we had dinner (Frozen Pizza, salad, and Ice cream).

6: I get to drive now! So after 6 weeks of not driving, I finally get to drive the Rouge! It has some features that make it feel like the Enterprise! There is no ignition, I just get in, the car senses the key fob in my pocket, and off we go! (Not sure how I feel about that.)

5: There is a weird crack in our window. So even though our car is very new, we have developed a crack that keeps growing. We’ve alerted the vehicle coordinator, but that paperwork takes some time. Hopefully the crack doesn’t develop too fast.

4: Elder Sant and I weren’t getting along (See pic)So that’s kinda a lie, he was just reaching across me while I had the camera open and I took a picture. 

3: We  had a great lesson with Emily’s kids! Even though they were kinda all over the place, and asking all sorts of questions about prophets and the like, we got through the Restoration lesson. It was a lot of fun, and 2 of the kids (Peter and Erin) are baptism age! So we’re going to be putting them on date this Saturday!

2: We watched the Christmas devotional at our landlords! The Seevy’s had us over for dinner again, and we watched the Christmas Devotional on their ceiling! Brother Seevy has a cool attachment on his phone that turns it into a projector, so we angled that up at their ceiling, and enjoyed the Christmas devotional while eating M&M’s

1: We played Settlers with the Zone Leaders in their apartment Because this p-day is going to be basically void, seeing as we are going to be shopping tomorrow for transfers. As a result, no one was at the church for the longest time. We got bored of waiting at the church, so we went over to the Zone Leaders, and played Settlers of Cataan. We have played that game so much this transfer, I legit had a dream about playing it a while ago. I’m going to be buying one when I go home.

I love you all, and would love it if you checked out the Light The World video for this week, and sought out how you can apply it.

– Elder Berky

10: Thanksgiving was fun! Had enough food, but not enough to feel bad about eating We had Thanksgiving dinner with the Coleman family, and their cousins and such. It was plenty of fun, and there were plenty of people, and more importantly, plenty of food. I would just like to say, that Stuffing is the best thanksgiving food there is. Can’t change my mind.

9: We got a Christmas Tree!! Jim (a less active that we’ve been working with twice a week)went out to go cut down some Christmas tree, and brought us a little one! It’s small and great, we just need to get some more decorations, like a star for the top.

8: Jim & Darla came to church! So the Jim mentioned above, and his wife came to church! They loved it. I don’t know why they won’t come otherwise. They were so happy, even though they were only there for the first hour. Nobody ever regrets coming to church.

7: Peter (Emily’s son) got a part in the primary program! It’s great to see how quickly the ward has involved the whole family.

6: We won cleanest apartment, and are going to Yogurt hut later today! So out of the whole zone, we have the cleanest apartment! So our reward is that we get to go to yogurt hut for FREE!

5: We chopped wood for the Beck’s! Another less-active family who we visit pretty frequently needed some wood chopped, and so we came over and chopped a cord of wood. (Which is a lot) It would have taken much longer if we were using just a regular axe, but we were using a maul, which is heavier. It makes you feel so powerful! THE WOOD JUST SPLITS BENEATH THE POWER OF YOUR SWING!! HAHAHAHHA!!!

4: Our ward mission leader finally came back! It’s hard to explain the difference that a ward mission leader makes, but pretty much, now we have a solid person who we can depend upon to give us info about members we can visit at night. If that didn’t make any sense, that means we are on the same page.

3: Packages and Pokemon Cards! So my loving mother sent me a thanksgiving(?) package! It included things such as: My Pokemon cards, some protein bars, and to counter out those healthy protein bars, some candy, some leaves and rocks (?) a fantastic meal plan that I’ll put into practice January (Because the month of December lends itself to all sorts of unhealthy foods, and I have another reason to do new years resolutions!) and finally, a cute little lego minecraft cow.

2: Settlers week Because our zone is totally obsessed with Settlers, the zone leaders have decided to make missionary work a game! (I really don’t like this facet of missionary culture, but that’s beside the point.) However the game that the Zone leaders came up with puts the outlying areas, such as Merlin, and Cave Junction at a huge disadvantage. That’s okay, as long as everyone else is having fun, that’s what matters.

1: Giving talks is fun! We got to give talks in sacrament meeting! I gave a talk on thankfulness, using Dan 6:9-10, and a talk that (Then Elder) President Nelson gave; ‘Thanks be to God.’ It went over really well, and I’d show my notes, but I left them at the apartment.

Overall, this week went by really well, and I am getting excited for the holidays! People should be more willing to listen to a message of Jesus Christ, and hopefully not shoot us. (Is a big possibility in some places of Merlin.)

Merry Christmas! Elder Berky

So, after our first week of no member dinners, I have decided that the statement from Ratatouille is true! Anyone can cook, you just need the ingredients, and the recipes!

10: I greatly underestimated the size of our only mixing bowl. So I wanted to make crepes, partially because I love crepes, and partially because we had a ton of milk. However, our mixing bowl is not very big, and the recipe called for a ton milk and eggs. So I made a bit of a mess. But the Crepes were good, and I’ve been re-heating them for breakfast all week. 

9: We helped rake this ladies’ yard, and saw a small miracle! We spent a couple hours raking this older lady’s yard. She was very appreciative, and things went very smoothly. We could tell she was very lonely because she was talking the whole time. As we were finishing up, she was getting worried about where she would put the bags of leaves (there were plenty) when all of a sudden, her neighbor pulled up and asked what we were going to do with those bags. Turns out that he wanted some for his compost pile! Tender mercy!

8: Scone conference! We were late for Zone conference, because Elders Sant, Haws, Ethington (We were carpooling) and I totally forgot what time it was at. So we showed up about 30 minutes late. But I did get plenty of great notes, and we made it in time for a lecture/talk on budgeting. 

7: Budgeting is fun! So, taking the things that we learned at zone conference, we put together a budget, and I have to say, Budgeting is actually rather fun! It also feels really good, knowing that I know where my money is going, and that I can track it. So I got to follow a budget at the store today, only $24. As I was picking up food, I was punching the prices into my phone, and when I came up with $23.94 I was done! Felt very good, and I didn’t have to worry about overspending!

6: I don’t know how to spell Recipes, but I sure do have some of them now! After visiting a member’s home, and letting them know that we don’t really have any recipes, they gave us a couple cook books to copy down, so we took advantage of that. Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be consulting those, planning out dinners, and buying the correct ingredients! 

5: Moving a waterbed! (Yeah, those still exist!) So while we were out shopping, we got a call from some members, who needed help moving a waterbed. After asking them what year they were living in we headed over. MAN, WATERBEDS ARE HEAVY!! We got it out of the house on a heavy-duty dolly, rolled it onto his deck, then the member got his tractor, picked up the dolly and all, to move it. We could hear the tractor straining under the weight of this deflated waterbed. 

4: Emily is going to be baptized! After meeting with her for only the second time, we extended an invitation to be baptized and Emily said yes! She’s going to be baptized on the 5th of January, and hopefully her 2 kids too! She already knows plenty of people in the ward, and has really connected with a couple! 

3: I can sew my pants back together! So just by natural wear and tear, a pair of my pants tore down the side, just under the pocket. So I stole Elder Sant’s sewing kit (I need to buy one, but forgot to) and repaired my pants. They don’t look as good as new, but that’s okay, the stitch looks really tight, and no one looks right above my pocket anyways.

2: A less active was going to come to church but didn’t 🙁 We have been working with this fantastic older couple, Jim and Darla, who don’t come to church for various reasons. We made a whole plan and everything for them to come, but only Jim came! Darla was sick, so she couldn’t come. So sad.

1: We got a griddle! After cooking on a stupid little hot plate, with a crappy tiny, aluminum frying pan. So now we are cooking on a glorious, giant griddle! HAHAHAHA! We might not have an oven, or any shelving, but we have got a griddle. I’m happy with what I’ve been given.Speaking of which, that is the spiritual thought I want to end with. I know, it’s kind of cliché because it’s thanksgiving week, but I want to share a scripture to go along with the feeling of thanks. 

1 Nephi 2:6-7 After Journeying for 3 days, on foot, the equivalent distance of Saint George to Provo, what is the first thing that Lehi does? Builds an altar of stones, then gives thanks to God for saving him from destruction. Be like Lehi, find time to be grateful, show your appreciation to God.

Love you all, Elder Berky