Well
I promised y'all some pictures last week so here are a couple of pictures of me
at my study desk. Since those pictures were taken I have moved my desk to a
different wall and hung up a Texas flag bandanna on the wall. This week has
been really slow trying to build up the area and we did not have any lessons
and unfortunately we were not able to meet with those I talked about last week
and have lessons with them this week. We are having trouble with getting into
doors. We have some really good prospects. We go out almost everyday with the
ward mission leader in one of our wards and are working with our other wards to
make it possible to work more with all of our wards. Alexus Dutton
unfortunately has not been able to come to church yet and when we were walking
around making some visits we found out this week that her mom is making her
come to church with her. Her mom goes to Calvary Chapel which is our local
anti-mormon church :( To be honest this week has been a little bit of a
struggle. I am starting to loose the fire and the motivation. So I thought
y'all would like to know that missionary work is very very hard especially in a
slow area. Some days it is really hard for me to go out and do the work and
have the continuing faith to find someone to be able to teach everyday. It is
hard being a senior missionary and making sure to keep my companion is staying
motivated everyday and helping to grow and become the missionary our Heavenly
Father wants him to be. So request time I know y'all are really busy with your
everyday lives but I could really use a good pep talk. If y'all can find time
in your busy schedules I would love a hand written letter with some encouraging
uplifting notes and your testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have just
finished reading Moses and Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and now I will
skip Joseph Smith-Matthew and Joseph Smith History to read the Old Testament.
Currently I am at Genesis chap 8 and I have gained a great testimony of the
plan of happiness and each of our potentials. I know that our Heavenly Father
has great expectations from each one of us. He loves us much! He wants us all
to succeed. Lucifer and even Cain had great potential to go on to be great
people but they chose a different route and because of that they have lost out
on many many blessings that our Heavenly Father was waiting to give to them. I
know that through Jesus Christ and only through Jesus Christ can we all reach
our potentials of being "noble and great" souls in the kingdom of
God. We all chose this life and knew that we would go through many trials but
still we all celebrated with much rejoicing anyways! I love Heavenly Father
very much and I am grateful to be serving a mission here in the Idaho Pocatello
Mission. I am very grateful Jesus Christ and his sacrifice that he did to make
it possible to be able to live with Heavenly Father again someday. I am very
grateful to have the family that I have and for all the love and support y'all
have continued to give me. I love y'all very much and miss y'all very very much
too.
P.S. - I was told by a
less active family that we were teaching that I should share a short message
about Jesus Christ that I shared with them and in a previous talk I gave a
while ago. So I gave a talk on faith in Jesus Christ which made me think of
past talks I have had with dad. I remembered dad has told me time and time
again in the past about being truthful in everything that I do because it takes
a lot of time and experiences to build a trust in someone but at the same time
it takes one thing/lie to loose all the trust that you have in someone. Well as
I was giving this talk I realized that Jesus Christ, being a perfect being, has
never done one thing for us to loose our trust in him. This is amazing and
something we must remember everyday because of the Atonement he knows us
perfectly and descended below all of us that we may all have a shoulder to lean
on and someone to help lift us up when we fall. Anytime that we may feel like
we are all alone and nobody understands there is always at least one person,
Jesus Christ, he is always there waiting for us to call upon him to help us
through anything. I love this idea very much because we can always rely on him
because of the Atonement he knows everything that we have done and what we are
going to do and he is the only one that can help us every time. I have a very
strong testimony of this I have a very strong testimony on prayer and how
Heavenly Father hears and answers all of our prayers no matter how big or small
they may be. I know that our Heavenly Father loves each and everyone very much
and He is waiting to bless us everyday as long as we are doing what He has
asked of us to do. I stand as a witness of these things in the name of Jesus
Christ, Amen.
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