1/31/2017

Wow! JANUARY IS OVER! I cannot believe that. It's gone so fast. I swear it was just Christmas!!!! But life is good out here in Watford. The new missionary schedule and changes are super cool and inspired! It was a lovely broadcast last week! Elder Auras and I are having a good time and staying positive. The weather has been a bit gloomy this week haha, lots of rain and more rain and more rain. We've been lucky with nice weather until this last week. But it's all good. Elder Auras and I were super super happy to see the picture of his dad with mom and dad at the bonneville Stake centre hahaha. We even showed president and sister Stevens and they loved it. So we were happy about that.

So fun to meet Jacob's German companions father!

It has been a pretty interesting week to be honest. Not much success but our testimonies have been strengthened! We were super super happy about the missionary broadcast and the new schedule!!! We love it! It is totally inspired. So we are very happy about that. Something I really loved about the broadcast is what Elder Bednar spoke about. He talked about "establishing the church" and how that is our role as missionaries. And he talked about how that is not measured on our success through numbers or baptisms, etc. It's measured on our commitment to get out and work and teach repentance. Elder Auras and I saw quite a bit of opposition this week! We met quite a few people who really were not interested in learning more about the restored gospel. We realized this very soon during the week and it seemed that every day we would have lessons with these people. We had alot of questions thrown at us about church history, the bible and the Book of Mormon, really everything I could think of haha. They were very smart and they tried their best. We felt a bit discouraged by the end of the week haha, we had set up all these lessons from last week and they all went sour. But I learned so much and we learned so much together. I'm super super grateful for the experiences we had.

We saw a way cool miracle  tonight. I was on an exchange with Elder Pasten from Chile who is a good lad. We are in the same group and we have served in the same zone from 10 months. We found a really cool guy named A and he was so willing and ready to act on the Book of Mormon and the message we shared. I really felt grateful for that experience. He has a wife and a new born baby and they are from the Philippines!

Lords Hand

I saw the Lords Hand this week in the talk that dad gave at Ward conference and that I was able to read it at the first of this week. He talked about some experiences that he had in the running group in the mornings. He shared uncle Brett's answer that really helped me this week. Uncle Brett talked about how there are alot of unanswered questions in general that can't be answered, and that was how I felt this week with the people we met. But I realised, just like what uncle Brett said, I'm unwilling to give up what I have experienced in the gospel and the doctrines and the special feelings I have had for a few unanswered questions that I know will be answered when they need to be. I felt and saw the Lords Hand in being able to read that talk before this week started. We were able to really bear testimony of the restoration this week, and of the prophet Jospeh Smith. I have never felt a more powerful conviction of the restoration than this week, I saw the Lords Hand in meeting the people we did because my testimony was strengthened!

I love you guys! Thanks for being the best of the best. Keep shredding and having a good time. Keerthy and Oliver both gave a talks in Northampton Stake conference Haha president and sister Stevens said they did a great job. So I'm super proud of them.

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