Ebbert, Lawson

My emails are slowly morphing into long-form oversharing essays about my life, so I hope there's a market interest in that or we're going to have a supply/demand crisis. Maybe at some point I'll have enough character development that I can write about all the crazy stuff that's happened like the robbery we stopped, our evil vampire neighbor, or the pirate we fought in the town square. Before the Fall I was really tempting fate by using a Loki quote last week, wasn't I? I mean, Loki: 1. is very handsome 2. is arrogant 3. makes out with a time traveling woman version of himself 4. dies (infinity war spoilers) Fortunately, I only qualify for the first 3 criteria for the time being. But today we're going to focus on Loki recipe ingredient number 2: pride. So my plan last week for the whole fubeca went very well, except for the fact that I did something very dumb and prideful which completely ruined the plan: I will kindly refer to this action of mine as a 'verba...

A little Loki for ya So this week's email is probably gonna be talking mostly about The Work. I apologize because that's probably not going to be as funny or interesting as all of my bizarre adventures in Brazil, but as my mom so keenly put it to me last week: "Lawson, writing is your coping/therapeutic/digestive mechanism!" Yes. Yes it is. There's a bunch of great psychology about writing/journaling out there by the way! Just thought I'd let you know. The Italian Incident, aka Elder Ebbert relearns My missionary brother Elder Robinson has been talking with me a lot about a resource he received in the CTM called "The Ricciardi Letter". Therein is detailed the experience of an Elder serving in Britain many years ago whose trainer was one Elder Ricciardi, an extremely unique Italian. It includes some important lessons such as the following: -Be Bold ( aka "I fear no man" ) -Be Joyful ( aka "the work is fulfilling, actually" ) -Desir...

This week was... perfectly normal. Nothing highly unusual or out of the ordinary happened. And before you ask, this isn't an elaborate setup for a bit where I reveal that actually something quirky and weird happened this week. That's not what's happening. Absolutely not. It's just that everything is going swimmingly. I'm still constantly working- I expect it'll be a year or two before that changes- but the work is very good. The problem is that I've actually started to really 'adjust to missionary life' so all the craziness is just normal. Also, as much as I love being in the intense, reforging crucible of tribulation, I haven't had any colossal, soul shaping challenges to expound on this week. The problem with everything going well is... what the heck am I going to write about in my email?  At this point, a needlessly long email from me is frankly an obligation. I can't let down my loyal fans and followers, and besides- how will I maintain m...