Quench your spiritual thirst

Elder Meza is a really cool guy and he works really hard. He knows the scriptures like the back of his hand and knows the whole Preach My Gospel too. He thinks I'm a really good kid and thinks that I'm really smart and understand things it took him like 3 months to learn. He helps me out a lot and understands the need to help me and even though he knows the stupid questions I'm asking, he still takes the time to learn about me and why I'm asking the questions. He isn't one of those guys that looks at you ask says did you really just ask that and I love that about him! He helps me sooo much. I think most of the companions I'm getting are just to keep me in line haha. But he has a really bad sense of direction so I just help him around town and he helps me with all of the others stuff. He is really patient with me. The town is really small and takes like 5 minutes to drive from one end to the other but they love missionaries here. They try to do anything they can to help us and we get fed every night sometimes even twice a night so if you are ever thinking you don't have food just turn your papers in and go on a mission they take care of you haha. People pay for your food at lunch. Give you a place to stay. Cut your hair for free and just love being around you. Even the grocery stores give us 10% off of everything. This is all in town though. We cover the 2 wards out of town and 1 in town. The 2 out of town take about 20 minutes on a dirt road to get to the houses and everyone lives like 10 minutes away from each other. Its really hard to get to know every one in a ward let alone 3 wards, but going to church definitely help put some faces to the names. I went to church yesterday for about 6 hours trying to go to all the wards and classes and then we had to visit people after that. There is like no down time at all and everything you do is just trying to help others come unto Christ. Its weird to see some of the people that go to church that are covered in tattoos and look like they haven't taken a shower in a week but something about it makes me happy. Everyone tries talking to them and the only thing they want is to be a part of this wonderful church and everyone down here can see it. What a blessing it has been for me to of grown up in this church and I get more and more converted every day! One thing we have to try to remember is not just keeping the commandments and living them but why we do it. There is a difference between going to church and wanting to be there. We just have to all remember why we choose the right and not just do them because its the right thing to do. One thing we have to kind of think about and this hit me after I left Utah is that we have to try and quench our spiritual thirst just like we need to with our physical thirst. A lot of times we just pick out someone and think that because you are doing better than them you are doing good but you're not actually doing everything thing you can to do the best YOU can. I'm one of those people and thought that just because i was doing the right things it made me a good person but a little bit before i left and a lot well I'm out here makes me realize that's wrong. We all need to strive to be the best we can be and not just better than the other guy. So every time you take a drink of water, read a scripture or sing a hymn or something. Its not weird, you live in Utah haha. Anyways i hope all of you try to remember to quench your spiritual thirst as well as try to be the best person you can be. Love Elder Lange 🌵❤