Weston's Farewell

Today was Weston's mission farewell. Maysen, Stockton and I went. Mike, Jorja and Preston were all sick. Jorja and Preston were regular sick. Mike is still in intense pain from his tooth. He has now lost 10 pounds. I finally texted my brother and asked him about it. He said it sounds like Mike had a dry socket. Of course, right after I finally texted my brother Mike, my Mike started feeling better. Thank goodness though! Hope he is done with tooth pain! He does have stitches in his mouth that are bothering him, but it is nothing compared to the pain. Luckily the three of them were all able to watch Weston's farewell online. One of the best things to come out of corona. Jorja and Preston took pictures of Bear dog, who got on the ping pong table for some reason.

Bear

Weston did a fantastic job on his farewell. Stockton was impressed. He really did good. I loved a CS Lewis quote he used. It is from Mere Christianity. "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of [an] army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness  -- they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means -- the only complete realist."