Walk a Mile in their Shoes!!

 I don't know if any other missionaries have done this, but occasionally I will have an experience where I say, "this will definitely need to be mentioned in my homecoming talk." Sadly, I need to start writing such things down because I definitely won't remember to mention them otherwise. Either way, I did have an experience like that this week that taught me alot about empathy. I'll share it in about twenty or so months with everyone but for now, suffice it to say that as missionaries we hear alot of about people's personal lives, and after about a month I am sad to say I got desensitized to it. I really want to try harder from now on to better imagine what the friends we teach are going through. Christ has a perfect love for all of us, and I am thoroughly convinced he got it because he has felt all the pain we have. Even if I don't go through the same trials some of our friends do (and I definitely won't in many cases), I can still try and understand what they have, and are, going through!

When it comes to cool experiences, I have actually been called to be the solo responder to comments and messages on a Mission Instagram page, so now I have Instagram as a missionary! It is very odd, on Facebook I would generally message older people so now I have to get use to messaging others closer to my age, haha. It is a neat responsibility though, and Instagram is a powerful tool, it is what we use it for that counts!

Keep strong in the faith!

Elder Killian

Pic #1 - playing ping pong with the elders on P-day, it gets intense, but the swear is from the pickleball we played beforehand

Pic #2 - having lunch with the district leader, we can't do it often so we enjoy it when we can

Pic #3 - my Instagram profile pic, you can go share the context yourself @desmond.killin.it if you want, the more people who see it the merrier