tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4596443768916367902024-03-20T02:29:02.592-07:00Elder Noah Lawrence Featherstone-- Alabama Birmingham Mission --Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460159495802599299noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-9556194330171424932018-08-26T19:18:00.001-07:002018-08-26T19:18:57.101-07:00Email #102 - El Fin<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to share two quick experience from this week. So first off, as we were knocking doors, this man across the apartment complex had watched us get rejected by a few people. All the sudden we heard, "I'LL LISTEN TO YA!" I turned around and saw this guy waaayyyy over there waving at us. He was probably 100 yards away. We started walking over there. At first I was really skeptical of what was going to happen, but he was very sincere and wanted to know more about us. We taught him the Restoration and he wanted to learn more. It was a really cool experience to see how God puts us in people's paths so we can help them. If we would not have been knocking doors, he wouldn't have yelled over to us. He said that he had been wanting to know more about the "Mormon's" and what they believe so it was perfect. It was super super funny how it happened but he is reading the Book of Mormon now. So that's one miracle we saw this week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week as well, we met with a man named Fred. It's been super awesome to teach him because he is so sincere. We taught about Prayer and how God wants to hear from us. He felt that God wanted to hear from everyone else but him. We talked a little bit about the specific ways God has shown his love to him in his life. He named a few major blessings and we talked about the small ones in his life. It was very cool. At the end of the lesson, we invited him to kneel by his bedside before he goes to sleep and pray. He said he would. Later we followed up with him and he said that he felt something different while he prayed. We then testified that it was the spirit that he was feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm so grateful for the experiences that I've had here in Alabama. I will never forget these special people here and the influences they have had on me. I have learned so much from them. This place is another home for me. I will miss it a lot. As I have been reflecting on my mission, I have come to ways that my testimony in the gospel has grown. I know that this is His sacred church. We are literal spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He suffered for our sins that we might have eternal life. I struggle putting all my thoughts and feelings into words. So I guess if I were to say anything it would be that, the gospel is true! It all is. I'm so thankful for the opportunity I have had to represent the Savior for these two years. I have done my best to put everything into His work and I am so grateful for his divine love. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are a few things that i would invite all of us to do. These things have changed people here and have kept them on the covenant path. These things move us toward becoming unshaken in our faith. That is what we are here to do. To become unshaken in the things we believe and in our reliance on the Lord. I love you all and I know that God loves each of us. This is Jesus Christ's Church. It is restored. God has a plan for us, and we are His Children. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Friday we had a lesson with Chad and Nicole and we were planning on teaching the Word of Wisdom. As we got there and chatted for a minute, Chad speaks up and says, "Okay so you've got to explain this health code that y'all have that keeps you all healthy and happy." We started getting into the lesson and he told us about some problems that he has had with a certain part of the Word of Wisdom. He said, "This is serious to me. I want to quit. I just need your help." So I got this impression to talk about Priesthood blessings with them. As we did so, he mentioned that he would like one. As we finished with the blessing. He asked us about fasting. He said, "I've heard about people fasting. Would that be something that would help?" Elder Quayle went on and explained what fasting is and how it helps. He quickly responded after, "I'm going to start fasting right now for the next 24 hours." I jumped in real quick and asked, "Can we join you?" He kind of looked up at me with this look like, "You're going to do that to help me?" He replied, "That'd be great!" So we fasted on Saturday with him, and when we stopped by on Saturday evening to see how it was, Nicole says, "Guys! He has been so happy and not irritated at all! It's been great!" Chad spoke up saying, "I haven't had a lick of anything!" It reminded me of Megan, "I had a lemonhead and a lick of an atomic fire ball!" haha! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I look back at the week, I feel like the kid on Incredibles, "THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!" I want to give you a few updates on our friends that we are teaching. So first up, Jaylyn! She is incredible! I'm not sure if I have talked about her a whole lot, but she is the daughter of a returning member. We've struggled to help her get baptized because her father doesn't think that she is ready to make that kind of a commitment. But as we have continued teaching her, last week we talked about baptism and he said, "Well I think she is finally ready! I want her to get baptized!" We both just sat back and just were amazed. The Lord works on his children for sure. Then he said, "I was thinking like 2 or 3 weeks? What do y'all think?" So we are planning a baptism for August 25th. SUPER COOL! I'm super excited for her! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chad and Nicole are doing great! They were tracted into about 2 months ago and we talked with them last week about baptism and the priesthood. They were just so full of intent and they really want to know. It is so darn cool! As we finished up visiting, Chad spoke up, "I just have one more question... Do the Mormon's have some sort of health code or something? I've always wanted to know that." We told him that we would talk about it on Monday with him. So tonight we are going to teach them the Word of Wisdom and are super excited. They are super awesome! We are trying to figure out a day as well when we can go biking with Chad because he loves to bike for exercise. So we'll do that one morning with him this week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything is going super super great here in Gadsden! We are just enjoying life as missionaries. The last few days Elder Quayle and I have skipped dinner because we just wanted to keep working. I didn't ever think I would do that but it was great! I truly love being a representative of Jesus Christ. There is nothing like it and knowing that I only have a few weeks makes me sad, but I know that we are all missionaries and can all share the gospel. I love you all and I hope you all have a FANTASTIC week! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">time today so I'm going to keep it short but I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">want to tell you a few things that </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">decent talk. They asked me to speak for 15 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">minutes but since I was the </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">today that would listen </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">to our message and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">keep the specific commitments </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">that we extend to them. As we went throughout </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">the day, not much </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">was </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">happening and I just kept praying in my heart that we would see a miracle. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">The previous day we </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">had followed up with someone that was interested but </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">he was busy. So as we were out and about, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">Elder Quayle said, "We need to </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">go see that lady that we met yesterday." I responded, "You realize </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">it hasn't </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">even been 24 hours yet right? I don't want to overwhelm her." He insisted so </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">had a few minutes to chat with us. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">As we sat there on her porch and shared </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">the Restoration with her, you could see how intently she </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">was listening and </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">how it was something that she needed in her life. As we finished sharing the </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">t</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">o introduce the Book of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">Mormon to her, she got this really puzzled look on </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">her face. She said that she had ordered the Book </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">of Mormon on Amazon a </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre;">few weeks previously and was studying it! *insert jaw drop* I was nothing </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-78500741886260659942018-07-24T19:19:00.001-07:002018-08-13T22:48:08.770-07:00Email #98 - COMPLETE INSANITY<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HELLOOOOOO FAMILYYYYY!!! I hope your week has been great. It's been pretty crazy here. Starting at the top of the week, last Sunday we had a dinner appointment with a member. At the end of the appointment we shared a brief spiritual thought with her like we always do. Our invitation for her was to pray for a missionary experience in her own life. She agreed to do so but openly told us that she didn't like to pray for missionary experiences because they always turned out bad. But she agreed to do it. On Monday night, we got a text from this member saying, "You're going to freak out! Call me ASAP!" So we put everything down and called her. She proceeded to tell us about what happened. Long story short, she wasn't supposed to work on Tuesday and was a little frustrated that she was called in. She was praying for a missionary opportunity as well. As she was at work, she had a friend come in and ask her all about the church and told her that she was struggling. Her friend's dad is a pastor at a local church and she felt that her dad was teaching false doctrine. She read in the Bible and it didn't make sense. She asked this member all about the church and their standpoints on the doctrine. She ended up inviting her to have a discussion with the missionaries (Elders Featherstone and Quayle) at her house.! HOW COOL IS THAT?! We had an amazing lesson with her and this member's thoughts on sharing the gospel have completely changed. It was an amazing experience. When we pray for missionary experiences, God will give them to us. Just ask to share the gospel and he'll help you. If each of us did this consistently, I believe that the Lord's work would go forward faster and faster. I looked up some statistics about member missionary work and turns out that 1 in 4 member referrals gets baptized. 25% is INSANE! When with missionaries it's 1 in 100 people they find get baptized. So that was a huge testimony builder to me about sharing our testimonies with others but as well praying for opportunities to share what we believe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Zone Conference, we went over to the bike shop and they looked at our bikes. Both of our bikes are out of commission for the time being. So that's kind of terrible. Then we went to the mission office and fixed up two bikes for us to ride. They are a little sketchy but they'll work. After that we headed on back to Gadsden and we opened up our apartment door to see a surprise! WATER EVERYWHERE! hahahahaha! Our apartment was flooded while we were gone. Something happened to the washer and dryer hook ups and they were leaking all day. The A/C went out on us also . So we didn't have water for a few days. That was definitely interesting. We had to shower at an empty apartment in the complex. They let us into that apartment so we would use public restrooms for the bathroom, shower at the other apartment, and cook with water that we would carry in pots from the other apartment as well! It's been insane. Hopefully they can get the A/C working quickly too. It's been pretty hot here lately. About 90-95 degrees with 90-100% humidity. We've been wringing out our shirts everyday haha! Reminds me of Brian telling me about his mission. </span></div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-90166510545533948642018-07-10T14:17:00.004-07:002018-07-16T21:24:50.805-07:00Email #96 - Transferred....Again....<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Family! I hope you have all had a spectacular week! I've been praying for each of you so I hope you have been able to feel the Lord's love this week. Transfer Calls came last night and I found out that my 6 weeks in Attalla are coming to an end. It's pretty sad but I know the Lord needs me somewhere else. They don't tell us where we are getting transferred to, so I'll have to let you know next week about my new area. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So this week has been another great one. We have had a lot of success! We had a friend at church on Sunday and she loved it. As well we have 2 other friends that are on baptismal date. (If you don't know, the word "investigator" has been taken out of Missionary Work. So it's now "people being taught," but I like "friends" better. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So it's been a great week. A lot of things have happened. It's been amazing to see how much the Lord has looked over us in these short 6 weeks in Attalla. It's been a testimony building experience seeing the many miracles that have taken place this week alone. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-33093465962076062702018-07-03T19:44:00.001-07:002018-07-03T19:44:50.239-07:00Email #95 - Following Spiritual Promptings<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 2, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello Family! Happy Monday! I hope all is well! This one has been a pretty good week. I enjoyed it for sure! So I don't have a ton of time today but I did want to update you on a few things. First off! This week we had a service project at a widow's house in the Branch. We trimmed her hedges and all that good stuff! It was BLAZING HOT! I drank 5 water bottles while I was there... We were both drenched from head to toe. It was really weird... That doesn't happen back west... but anyways. We trimmed her hedges and we had a great time. Yesterday at church she got up and shared her testimony about missionary work and how the missionaries are here to help us(the members) fulfill our(their) missionary responsibilities. IT WAS SO COOL! I was just blown away. We really are all missionaries that share this message. Each of you are what you would call "User Reviews." And you can share your user review with those around you. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another super cool experience that we had was while we were tracting this week. We were out knocking doors and we got to the end of the street and didn't know which way to go. I turned to Elder Vanderhoff and said, "So.... which way should we go?" Long story short, I said, "Well why don't we say a prayer." So we said a prayer in the middle of the street, and we looked both ways and I said, "Okay Elder, which way do we go?" He responded, "I don't feel like I'm getting anything." Meanwhile, I was feeling like we should go a certain way but didn't say anything. So I spoke up and told him which way I was feeling like we should go. We ended up knocking that direction for another hour and didn't get anyone to talk to us. At the second to last door, this lady was outside and I yelled over to her. We got talking to her and originally it was really hard to get her to open up but she told us about a few things that have been going on in her life with her family and everything. She said, "I know that it's not by chance that God sent you this way to talk to me. He guides you and He knows that this is what I needed." Elder Vanderhoff and I were both speechless. I wasn't sure what to say but bear my testimony. So I got thinking about this experience. Why wasn't it that Elder Vanderhoff got the impression to go a certain direction to knock doors that way? Many people would give different answers to that question, but I think it is because we are all here to learn. I am grateful that He would give me the opportunity to respond to that prompting. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-15251063418604128342018-06-25T19:49:00.000-07:002018-06-25T19:49:57.815-07:00Email #94 - Leaders in the Church<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello Family! How are y'all doing? This has been quite the week. We've enjoyed it for sure. It's been a lot of knocking doors and finding people to teach but we've definitely seen the Lord's hand in our lives. A cool but funny experience that we had was in the middle of the storm this week. It was about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 pm</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Elder Vanderhoff and I were biking to an appointment with an investigator and we got there and they let us in. The moment we closed the door behind us it started POURING! Elder Vanderhoff and I look at each other like "Well that was close..." So we taught this investigator the Restoration very simply and she struggled understanding it so we got some paper and mapped it out with her on the table. It was super cool! I've never mapped it out before but it helped her understand a lot so I guess that was a little something the Spirit threw at us. The moment we finished up and said a prayer, we started walking out the door and it just stopped raining! That was definitely an answer to prayer. Alabama is the only place that I've ever been that you can actually run away from the rainstorms. It's so interesting. If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it'll change. Alabama weather is the craziest. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week we had interviews with President Sainsbury and I had a few questions that I had been praying about. There were a few of them that I talked to President Sainsbury about and he was able to help me a lot. As I was going over what we had talked about, I thought about the blessing that it is to have leaders in the church that are called of God. I know that he is guided by the Lord and is able to help the missionaries here. I know that each of our leaders in the church are called of God to know how they can best help us come closer to Christ. So my invitation for each of you is to listen closely to your leaders as they are here and called to help us. They pray for you and think about you and your eternal salvation. They are guided by the Spirit as they help each of us. </span></div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-52016450362754548272018-06-19T00:09:00.000-07:002018-06-19T00:09:49.144-07:00Email #93 - The Lord Is On Our Side<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondly, I want to say thank you to my Heavenly Father for preserving the life of Scotti Rae. I don't know all the details but I do know that God is watching over each of us. I believe that these feelings of gratitude that we have for Heavenly Father right now are very similar to how we will feel after we get to Him and realize the many times he has truly been walking by our side. He is with us and he is blessing us more than we know. I know that Scotti is evidence of a loving Father in Heaven. I don't know who Scotti talked to on the other side but I do know that she is here for a reason. I am truly grateful for the Lord's hand in our lives. I can't help but think that the people that were there to find her were sent to that specific spot for a specific reason and that it was to bring back Scotti. Please let Scotti know of my love for her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also wanted to talk a little bit about a miracle we saw this week in the work. Elder Vanderhoff and I taught someone this week named Dillon. We met him at his brother's house but he was super interested so we got his address and number and went by a different day. We stopped by on Friday and taught him bits and pieces of the Plan of Salvation. He had a lot of questions and brought up a lot of different scriptures in the bible about God's Plan of Us. He talked about Mansions, and 1000 years, etc. So as we went back on Sunday to teach him, we brought Brother Rebarchik with us. He is a member here in the Attalla Branch. We shared with him Genesis 49 that is basically Jacob's last blessing that he leaves with his sons. He gives Judah, and Joseph an especially large blessing compared to the rest. We as well shared with him Ezekiel 37 showing that Judah and Joseph's sticks will be one. Dillon talked about how the Bible is the stick of Judah but what is the stick of Joseph? Oh man... It was so pretty. Y'all should have seen his face when we introduced the Book of Mormon. We said, "Dillon, will you start today in the Book of Mormon?" He said, "Yeah I will! I'll pray about it as well like you said. I'll probably be through it by the time y'all come back on Tuesday." We will see how it goes tomorrow but that was for sure a miracle. He said, "Yeah I'm just super intrigued and I want to learn more about all of this." He is a great guy and he even pointed out that he was feeling the spirit as we were there. The Spirit was definitely testifying to him as we were with him. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-83772145754704622152018-06-12T15:09:00.000-07:002018-06-12T15:19:26.613-07:00Email #92 - Having a Good ol' Time<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">June 11, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Family! How are you all doing? It sounds like it's been another </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">great week! I've loved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">hearing about your experiences going to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">the temple and fasting. We've had an amazing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">week! It's been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">a good ol' time! Hence the title ;) haha! We have been super </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">super busy. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">This week has been one big miracle. We have been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">finding and finding and finding. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">We ended up finding a lot of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">interested people in our message which was great. Real </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">quick I want to tell you about one of them. His name is Damion. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We met Damion and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">set up a return appointment and he didn't </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">show up. So we tried later and he answered. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">We talked to him </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">again and set up a return appointment. That happened 3 times </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">we decided we should drop him. So as we were biking past </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">his house on Friday night </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">he was outside. He started laughing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and said, "Hey guys! Get over here!" He proceeded </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">to apologize </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">for not being there because stuff was always coming up. So we </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">sat down </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">then and there and taught him the Restoration and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">when we got to the end I said, "So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Damion, How does this </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">message apply to you?" He said, "Well I better know if this is </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the true church of Jesus Christ on earth today." Usually it takes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">about 3 or 4 times </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">explaining the importance of the Restoration </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">before they understand it fully, but he just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">"got it." It was so </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">darn cool! I was so psyched and just couldn't stop smiling! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">It's always </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">amazing to see these people when they understand </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">the message. That was definitely </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">a miracle that we saw this week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This week as well we have done a ton of service. There is an </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">investigator named Patricia </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">that we did some service for and she </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">is just so sweet! She reminds me a lot of Grandma </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Mer. She is </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">not a member but is so caring and compassionate toward </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">everyone. We </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">pulled some weeds and I swept off her driveway. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">There were leaves and stuff </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">everywhere so I got the hose out </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">and started spraying off the driveway. It was so </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">interesting. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">As I was spraying it off, I thought, "I haven't done this in so long..."</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">It was </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">such a nice experience for some reason to spray off the </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">driveway like we would do </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">back home... How weird is that?! It </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">made me super happy! We as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">well did some painting on her </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">house for her. I'll send you some pictures of that. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from all of you! I hope all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">is well! You are all in my prayers! </span><br />
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Interview in Anniston and took a pic with their glasses... </td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Family!!! How are you all doing? It sounds like this last week has been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">riot! </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I love hearing all about it! I can't believe Laurel was baptized! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">That is </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">AMAZING!!! Makes me super super happy! and also hearing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">about the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">many </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">miracles each of you have seen in your lives this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">week. It's </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">amazing </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to know </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that the Lord is with each of us. He knows </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">us personally and </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">individually. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">This week was a testimony builder of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that. The Lord really </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">knew where I was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to be transferred and why it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">was there that I was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">supposed to go. I'm going </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to start at the top of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the week so I can fill you i</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">n on everything that happened </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">this last </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So Monday evening we get transfer calls and I find out I'm leaving. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tuesday </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">evening we said goodbye to a few investigators and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">members </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and that was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">hard... It's amazing to see how you come to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">love these </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">people so much as </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">you serve them. We said goodbye to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">everyone </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and Wednesday I headed </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">down to transfers and found out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I was headed to Attalla Alabama! With the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">one and only Elder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Vanderhoff from Highland UT. So long story short... I'm </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">in an English </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Branch a little south of Albertville(Where I started my mission) </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">little west of Gadsden. It's a little town and we are completely on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">bikes! </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">We are going to have thighs of steel by the time we are done. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">It's going to </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">be AWESOME! When we got to Attalla after dealing with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">all of my bike </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">problems in Birmingham we basically got left here! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">haha! The closest elders </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">from us are close to an hour away. So this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">is a completely different situation </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">than I have been in my entire </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">mission. But I love it! We have been biking </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">20-25 miles everyday </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and just sweating our tails off! We will walk or bike </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">up to people to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">talk to them and they used to just give us a weird look but </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">now they </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">are "why is this sweating guy in a white shirt and tie trying to talk </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to me?" haha! It's so great! I love it! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We have seen tons and tons of miracles since we've both been here. We </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">were out biking and we had made a goal to find one new investigator and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we had been rejected all day and it gets to about time to go in for dinner </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and we see this lady on her porch. So we yell over to her and started </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">talking to her and taught her the Restoration and she committed to be </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">baptized on July 14th. I hope she continues to progress! It was a super </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cool experience though. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Elder Vanderhoff and I have had a good time. There have been a lot of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">movie quotes going around. One of the most common is - "We got no </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">food.... We got no jobs... Our pets HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!!" Ha! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It's been an adjustment for sure having an English companion. I have </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gotten so used to speaking in Spanish that sometimes I'll just say </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">something and he will be like dude.... SPEAK ENGLISH!!! So now he </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">just ignores me when I accidently say something in Spanish... Anyways.... </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individually. He knows how to help us grow and reach our potential. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This area is exactly what I need right now with the companion that I </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have. I have learned so much these last few days about myself and </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-35152145327775391302018-05-29T20:46:00.000-07:002018-05-29T20:46:31.564-07:00Email #90 - Getting Soaked and Getting Transferred<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-68617201657780137452018-05-21T14:30:00.002-07:002018-05-21T14:30:25.203-07:00Email #89 - Families are Forever<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¡Mi querido familia! If I were to describe this week into a few words I would say, the tender mercies of the Lord. It's been an amazing week. I have been surrounded by several missionaries on Exchanges that were able to uplift and inspire me. With Big V passing, it's been a hard week. But it was still great because the missionary work here is flying! Here in the Byrd Springs Ward, the Byrd is flying high! We don't have a ton of time today but I do want to share one quick experience. We had invited all of our investigators to church and nobody was able to come, but we did get a text yesterday morning from Luis. He said that he was driving home from work last night and he got T-Boned in his car. His car got totaled but he was fine. We made some cookies for him yesterday after church and took them to him and his family and they were very appreciative. We talked with him a little and he was sore but doing better. He knows a member that I know really well from the Spanish Branch here in Huntsville. So I called this member last night and asked him if he could get in contact with Luis and he said of course! It's been amazing to see how the members are able to help their friends learn more and come closer to the Lord. I was reading a talk this morning from President Ezra Taft Benson about Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon. So I want to challenge y'all to do something that Elder Anderson challenged our mission to do. Memorize 10 Book of Mormon scriptures that you really believe - 10 scriptures that you have a firm testimony in. So I want to challenge you to do the same. I know that as you do this your testimonies in the Book of Mormon will be strengthened and that you will be able to share these memorized scriptures with those you come in contact with. It's been amazing to be able to recite these scriptures to those we meet on the street and it truly has been a blessing. </span></div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-3487092161670293182018-05-21T03:17:00.003-07:002018-05-21T03:23:32.020-07:00Email #88 - A Week of Miracles<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week we knocked a lot...... and we didn't find anyone. So I was thinking about that. Why is it that we are working so hard but nothing has been coming from it? As we were finishing up the week last night, we taught an investigator about the sacrament and a little review on the Restoration. At the end, we committed him to be baptized and he accepted! It was amazing to see how we work so hard in one area of the work but the Lord blesses us in other ways. We were so diligent and full of faith that we were going to find someone but the Lord blessed us through this investigator. It was one of those weeks where you work your tail off and then the Lord throws you a bone at the end and says, "Nice Job. Keep it up." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Friday the ward had a Luau, and it was a blast! ha! We actually came and cooked the hot dogs for everyone and then they all went inside to have a family dance while we cleaned up. It was super fun to be able to serve the members and let them not have to worry about it. I really enjoyed it. This has got to be one of the most solid wards in the Church. They are just a huge family. It's amazing to see. I've definitely learned a lot from them and their selfless acts of service. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I was reading in the Book of Mormon this week I was in Alma 39. I started reading verse 1. I'm going to change it a little bit but this is what came to mind. "And now, my son, I have somewhat more to say unto thee than what I have said unto thy brethren; for behold, have ye not observed the steadiness of thy brethren, their faithfulness, and their diligence in keeping the commandments of God? Behold, have they not set a good example for thee?" I was thinking about Dad saying this to me, and how I would respond. and I would say to him, "Yes, they are steadfast in the ways of the Lord and are STELLAR GUYS!" So I just want to share my appreciation for my brothers and the amazing examples they have set for me. When I grow up I want to be like Greg, Brian, Preston, and Caleb. I thought a lot about y'all and all you have done to serve and love me. Thank you. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-50851628093414681472018-05-01T13:20:00.000-07:002018-05-01T13:29:20.303-07:00Email #86 - Love Toward Others<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">April 30, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Family! How has your week been? It sounds like it's been quite the week! I'm loving hearing the fun things going on in Australia, Sweden, and Scotland! Makes me super happy to hear how well everyone is doing! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I wanted to give Grandpa V a shout out today! This week has been super amazing to be able to serve the same people that he served so many years ago. This week I was able to talk to a few members and hear the stories that they have about Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone. It is incredible to see the lives he touched as he served so selflessly and humbly. Thank you Grandpa V for the great example you are to me and all those around you. Love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This week was a rollercoaster of emotions. We had a few investigators that had stopped progressing and we decided it was best that we drop them and find those that are ready to hear the gospel and be baptized. It was so hard to drop these people that you have grown to love so much. As we were finishing up, I turned to Elder Briggs and asked him, "Elder, why is missionary work so hard? If it's this hard for us then I can't imagine how hard it is for Heavenly Father." He thought for a minute and said, "Remember what Elder Holland said? Because Salvation isn't a cheap experience." I thought about that and how you learn to love these people so much. As we serve those around us, we learn to have Christlike love toward all around us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">During the Sacrament yesterday I sat there thinking about Alabama and how much I love the people here. They are so amazing. I really do want the best for the people here. I love the ministering program because it allows us all to focus ourselves outside ourselves and love others and serve others the way Christ would. It's amazing to see the friendships that we make when we selflessly serve those we come in contact with. In Matthew it says, "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." I know that is true. When we serve others, we are serving God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts. I love you all! Have a great week and remember the Lord as you go throughout your week! </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-12303016766685009132018-05-01T13:12:00.000-07:002018-05-01T13:12:00.138-07:00Email #85 - Service = Smiling Souls<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">April 25, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Family! How are you all doing?? Sorry it's been a long week. We were able to go to the Temple this morning and it was great! I have really missed being able to go and experience the Spirit in the House of the Lord. So that's why our P-day was moved. We have like ZERO time to email so this one is going to have to be real short. So I'll give you a few key things that happened this week. </span><br />
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1) We helped our friend Vonn set up a trampoline for his son. When he asked us if we would help, I thought, "Oh we got this." But little did I know that trampolines are getting more and more complex... Haha! It was a nightmare. We basically sewed the thing together. Like the net on the outside to the springs. The amazing part of the experience was that he just lit up toward us afterward because he was so grateful. It was a great to see how his whole countenance changed after we were able to serve and uplift. </div>
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2) We have done a lot of tracting this week and it's been amazing to testify the truthfulness of this message to so many people. It is always a privilege to share my testimony with those around me. </div>
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3) We had Stake Conference this last Sunday in the Huntsville Alabama Stake and I want to share some thoughts with y'all. </div>
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- As we are focused on ministering, we are to "behold the man." (Acts 4) Each is a unique son or daughter of Heavenly Father. We are to encourage, uplift, admire, and love.</div>
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- One impression that I had, was the reality of repentance. The Savior really is asking us to do all we can to reach our potential. He sees that potential and when we slow down in our growth, he probably thinks, "Don't stop! Go go go!" He continues to give us feedback as a coach would. He helps us see how we can improve and become better. </div>
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- Our Patriarchal Blessings are essentially eternal documents that we should turn to often. </div>
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- We should get out of bed every morning and get on our knees and say, "Heavenly Father, it's been a great day. I've kept the commandments. I haven't offended anyone, but I'm going to get out of bed and I need your help." Ha! </div>
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- What is our plan to become converted to the Savior? The goal is to be converted but what are the steps I will take? </div>
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I hope you have a great week! Y'all are in my prayers! Travel safe to Scotland! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-50470844791696581422018-04-17T15:20:00.003-07:002018-05-01T03:04:55.198-07:00Email #84 - Another Transfer GoneApril 16, 2018<br />
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Family! How are you all doing?! I sure hope all is well and that you've had a great week. This week has been a pretty normal week as a missionary. We knocked a lot of doors, talked to a lot of people at Walmart, street contacted a little bit, and taught a few lessons. It's been a great time. Elder Briggs and I have been laughing non-stop! It's been a riot! So I have to say, everyone that we talk to asks, "Are you two brothers? You look exactly the same..." And Elder Briggs and I will look at each other thinking the same thing, "You're kidding right? We look nothing alike..." But everyone insists that we are brothers! You name it and they've said that to us, Bishop, Ward Council, All the members, investigators, potential investigators, missionaries, every random old joe on the street. EVERYONE! We've at least been told that 50 times this last transfer. It's been hysterical! haha! And that's not an exaggeration which is the funny part. Maybe once a day someone will say that to us. It's either that or they say, "Are you related to Vaughn J. Featherstone?" Such an amazing thing to come to the places where my grandfather has been and served and that I can meet these people and serve them as well.<br />
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So we had a really cool experience this week. We were on exchanges with the Elders in the Huntsville Spanish Branch and we were biking out to see an investigator. As we rode into this apartment complex we past a former investigator that was taught about 6 months ago. He was getting out of his car, so we stopped and said hi. He said, "You guys haven't been by to see me in a minute." Here in Alabama a minute could mean a second, a minute, an hour, a day, a month, a year, a decade... you get the point. Anyway, he said, "Hey I gotta get the kids situated but can you come over in like 5 minutes?" We told him yes, so we knocked a few doors and then went over and he let us on in. We taught him the Restoration and he committed to read the Book of Mormon! He was SO excited about it! It was super amazing! It was as if he didn't really understand what we were teaching the first time but the second time he let us in, he understood everything! It was super super cool! Sometimes I see that people aren't ready at one moment but they will be ready later. The Lord is preparing people to hear His message. Some may be ready now, but others in a month, and others in a year. It's all on the Lord's timetable. This is His work and His glory. I have learned to love the Lord more as I have been a missionary. He really is our Savior and as missionaries, we represent our Savior. What a privilege it is to wear the Savior's name over my heart everyday. It's amazing. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-35014007899532255942018-04-09T19:20:00.000-07:002018-04-09T19:20:18.368-07:00Email #83 - A Week of Revelation<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Hello!!! How has your week been?? It's been quite the week here in Alabama. We received our smartphones this week and it has been very interesting... We have been doing a lot of Facebook messaging with investigators and all that good stuff. We were able to have a Skype call with Meleah the other night and that was a very cool experience. We taught her the Word of Wisdom. It's pretty crazy all the new stuff we can do to help our investigators with these smart phones. This really is a New Age of Missionary Work. The Lord is hastening His work.</div>
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So anyways! General Conference! Wow! I was blown away... The changes that are being made are going to be amazing! I'm really looking forward to all that will be happening. I want to add my thoughts to the conference meeting. I loved Uncle Brian's talk it was something that was a great reminder for me. One thought that I had was that when we truly know that we are divine sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we know where our power lies and we know that we can do all through Him. The knowledge of being children of God can profoundly bless our lives when we truly come to know that for ourselves. Pretty amazing. Another talk that I loved was President Nelson at the end. When we live in a way that we are able to receive spiritual promptings from the Holy Ghost, we can be led in a divine way. We will experience joy when we listen to the quiet whispers of the still, small voice. He will help us know how we can follow the Savior more exactly. </div>
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I love General Conference because it's an opportunity we have to be led and guided. We can receive the revelation we need for the next 6 months. When we listen to the spirit, he will tell us the things we need to know. The things we can improve on and who we can reach out to. </div>
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I love this gospel and I love the Lord. I pray for y'all every day. Have a great week. Love you all!<br />
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We had one of the greatest experiences ever this week. We were visiting a less active family and they have a grandson named Aren that we've been trying to teach and this week we finally had the opportunity to sit down with him and the rest of the family. He is 8 years old but he will turn 9 in about 2 months. So as we were teaching the Restoration, we talked a little about Prophets. His Grandma spoke up and said, "Do you remember the story of Noah and the Arc?" "No... What's that?" She tried to refresh his memory a little bit and then Aren spoke up and said, "Oh yeah! I remember him! He was the one that saved all the animals! and the reason that we don't have unicorns any more is because he forget to let them in the boat!" We couldn't help but laugh! He is such a bright kid. We are super excited for him. He came to church for the first time yesterday with his Grandma and Grandpa. So that was great to see them at church. We were sitting in the row in front of them in Sacrament Meeting and I heard him say to his Grandma, "Can I go sit with the missionaries?" So he ended up sitting with us. ha! He's the man!</div>
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This week we had an amazing lesson with Meleah. We taught the lesson at the Hess Family's home. We taught about the importance of keeping the Sabbath Day holy. It was a great lesson and the Hess' shared some wonderful insights with her. As well, in a neighboring ward here in Huntsville, there was a convert baptismal service and we invited Meleah to come. She loved it! It was a great service and she just ate it up. So we are excited for her. She has a baptismal date for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_749306562" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Saturday</span></span> but it'll get pushed back because we still have a few more lessons to teach her. </div>
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One other cool experience we had last night. We were having dinner with the Wright Family and Brother Dietrich. They are all elderly and live together so they invited us over to dinner. As we were wrapping up, we started to share our spiritual thought that we had prepared with them. They have been going through a lot of stressful times and things of that nature. Health problems, family problems, and all of the above. Usually we share some sort of scripture with an invitation for them to do a little missionary work of there own, but as I started to speak up and pull out my scriptures I felt like we should do otherwise. I opened up my scriptures to the last verse in the Book of Enos. I shared with them the last line of this scripture. It says, " <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); color: #333333;">Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); color: #333333;">mansions </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.01); color: #333333;">of my Father. Amen." I then bore my testimony of the reality of that scripture. They are such great examples to the ward, to their families, and to all that they come in contact with. We thanked them for the support they are to us, and for being steadfast in our Savior. As we started to end Elder Briggs spoke up, and said, "Also, we are preparing to perform this musical number at Zone Conference next week and we'd like to play it for you if that would be okay." They jumped at the idea. So as I played the piano for Elder Briggs, you could feel the spirit in abundance in the room. As we finished we looked back at them and they were all in tears. It was exactly what they needed. It was an amazing experience. Brother Dietrich jumped up and gave us both big hugs and said, "Thank you for being diligent servants of the Lord." The Members here are amazing. Alabama definitely has my heart.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-17576217271798829292018-03-23T23:51:00.001-07:002018-03-23T23:51:11.394-07:00Email #80 - Spiritual Promptings from the Lord<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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Heyooo! How is everything? I heard all about Goblin Valley! Sounds like it was a riot! I loved all of the pictures and videos! Y'all are the best! </div>
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This week was another good one. Elder Briggs and I have been really busy. We had a few amazing experiences knocking doors this week in the same place... So I guess it's a holy land here in Huntsville! ha! But anyways... a little background on the story. Last transfer Elder Damaso and I had knocked a few doors in this apartment complex but nothing really came of it. When Elder Briggs got here we decided we'd give it another shot. So we continued knocking where we left off. After we had said a prayer in the car, we got out and started walking to a specific building to start. As we got about 10 steps away from the car I stopped, realizing that I had already knocked that building so we moved onto the next building. As we walked in, we decided let's start at the top. So we go upstairs and start knocking this door with a balcony that looks over to the bottom of the stairs. After we knocked the first time, someone walks in the bottom door and is checking her mail at the mailboxes on one side of the entrance. We were really quiet... At the moment, I was thinking, "Should I knock this door and make it super super awkward and just go for it? or just be silent until she leaves?" So I decided what the heck! I knocked and she just immediately looked up at us... So we just kind of looked and said, "Hey how's it going?" And she said, "good? Why you knocking on my door?" So we went into the whole schpeal and she started to tear up. She said, "I have been going through so much in my life and it's more than a miracle that I have y'all right here right now. I only check the mail once every 2 weeks and I never come in the front door, I always go in the back. This is the only time you would catch me. I can't help but think that God is watching over me." It was an amazing experience. Most people don't see that, but it was amazing to see how she could feel of God's love for her in that moment. </div>
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I know that this it the Lord's work. I know that He leads and guide this church and that we have a living prophet today. It's all true. This is the Lord's kingdom. I love you all. I pray that the Lord will watch over each of you as you go about serving others and are steadfast disciples of our Savior. I love you all! Have a great week.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459644376891636790.post-1997907158198356462018-03-17T20:56:00.001-07:002018-04-17T15:32:11.636-07:00Email #79 - Alabama, the Greatest Place on Earth<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hello Family! It sounds like it's been quite the week! I love hearing about all </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">mission as well! First off, Alabama is the greatest place </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">on earth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">(other than the temple). So I guess the Alabama Birmingham Temple is the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This week was definitely a busy one. We had Transfers on Wednesday </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and I sent Elder Damaso off </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to Tennessee to be reunited with his family, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and I got a new companion. My new/old companion is </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Elder Briggs. He is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the man! So when I came back out to the mission after having surgery I was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">in </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">a Trio because my trainer, Elder Messick, had started training another </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">missionary at the same time. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">So Elder Briggs and I were getting trained </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">together back in Albertville. So we are back together again! </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">How crazy is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that?! It's been a completely riot together. We've just been laughing our </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">heads off the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">majority of the time. ha! So it's been an exciting week. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">On Friday we had to be in Birmingham for a </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">meeting, and on Saturday </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We were able to visit with Meleah on Saturday with a family in the ward. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It was an amazing lesson. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We went </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">through Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Gift of the Holy Ghost, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and Enduring to the End, and as we did this family shared their baptismal </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">experiences, and some experiences with the Holy Ghost in their lives. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It was a great lesson. It was </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">amazing to see how when the members </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">testified of the experiences they have had and the reality </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of Baptism and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the Holy Ghost, Meleah was able to know that the things that we were </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">teaching are t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">rue. She said, "This all makes so much sense! It makes me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">want to repent and do better and to </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">endure to the end. I want to have the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Holy Ghost with me." It was amazing to hear her say that and </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to testify of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the simpleness of the way that Christ has established for us. Like Nephi, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">"my soul </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">delighteth in plainness." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">been a great week as a servant of our Savior </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Jesus Christ. I hope y'all </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Family! How is everything? I hope everything has just been fantastic. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I've heard </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lots of good </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">things </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">about </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">all that is happening back home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Makes me super </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">happy to hear about how the Lord is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">looking after all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This week was one of those weeks where we've been tested on if we </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">can keep </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">going and endure. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">We had a day this week where we had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">about 5 appointments </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">set up for the evening and every </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">single one of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">them fell through. Our back up </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">plans didn't work either so we just </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">started knocking </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the city. So it's definitely </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">been a testimony builder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of continuing on doing the will of the Lord. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We had exchanges with the Elders in the Huntsville Spanish Branch </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and that </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was a riot! I was </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">withan elder that I was with in the MTC. He </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">is a stud! We </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">went to the Mall to contact for the last </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">hour </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of the day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and it was empty... </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Like bare... So we started talking to the employees </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and we had </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">some great </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">chats with them and got a few potentials from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">contacting that night. It was a pretty </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">regular week here in the ABM. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Since the beginning of the year, President Sainsbury has challenged </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">us to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">memorize the Living </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christ </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and it's been quite an amazing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">experience for me. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">If you have </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">time this week I would </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">recommend </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">reading over it. It's definitely </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">a powerful testimony from the Apostles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">about the Living Christ. </span></div>
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