HEY Y'ALL!! I'm writing this and its currently sunday because tomorrow is pretty busy! Were finally moving into our area so we had sacrament meeting today and now were just packing the whole apartment up and I figured, I'll have time to write my email!
What a week!! highs and those lows! Let me tell ya! So tuesday we had a mission Devotional! President Hilton, one of President Harris's counselors, spoke to us and it was sooo powerful! He spoke about time management with teaching and service. He said something toward the end that hit me... he said, "put on your pants" meaning in the morning wake up roll out and put your pants on, that's how your day will be great! Knowing you woke up on time and have started the day with obedience! Elder Payne and I took that to heart! Weve been good at waking up but.. we wanted to also workout more (that was one of our goals) so we took his challenge literally and every morning since that day weve woken up and put our "shorts on" and go running and workout then come back and start the day! ITS BEEN AMAZING!!
Wednesday: I read a couple of great talks!!
•"We are Enlisted" - Jeffrey R Holland
• "Feed my Sheep" - Jeffrey R Holland
Both outstanding talks, I highly recommend reading them! I cant even explain how I feel about "Feed my Sheep" it is one of the MOST POWERFUL TALKS EVER!! I felt the Spirit so strongly the whole time!
John 21-
Elder Holland talks about when Christ left and Peter and the disciples went back to what they knew, fishing. When they were out fishing they hadn't caught anything someone called out from the shore and said to cast on the right side of the boat, the nets were so full. John said "its him" Peter instantly jumped out and swam to him! Christ asked him, do you love me more then you love fishing? And he said yes lord! Christ said this 3 times and finally after Peter's response, Christ said "FEED MY SHEEP!!" I LOVE THIS!
Do you love him? Do you love him enough to throw away all the worldly things?
Then go and gather Israel and spread the word of Christ to ALLLL!! This is something that's been my focus recently! Nothing else matters! I've been set apart specifically to feed His sheep! I know the least I can do is forget about those worldly things! I want yall to ask yourself what you can do to show that you love him more then you love worldly things and make changes accordingly!!
Thursday: I had a interview with President Harris and we had a great conversation! Figuring out goals, stating some challenges and him helping me! We then had District Council :) after that I read the "Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar! READDDD ITTT it's from the MTC but its is AMAZING!! later that day we had calls and one of them was with a non member and his name is Jim... we had to stop teaching him :( it's very discouraging but it was important to do that. hes been non stop bashing us and telling us were wrong! He read the Book of Mormon but did it with the wrong intentions he did it to prove were wrong and we could see that on how he spoke to us. But we found 3 more people from Facebook! We will teach them this week! The Schrimshers are a family that we found who have been taught and are interested! They are SO AMAZING! And have invited us over this week to hang and talk with them! I'm so excited! We also called a lady in our ward here today, she strengthened my testimony so much, she was just diagnosed with cancer and shes over 60. It was super sad hearing about it and she starts chemo tomorrow. But she said something thatll always stay with me she was crying and talking about her cancer and the great deal of sadness it brought, then there was a pause.... she then said , "but I know with a full surety of my heart that Christ and God are there supporting me all the way through no matter what happens!!" IT WAS SO POWERFUL!!
I KNOW CHRIST IS THERE FOR US!! i know he supports us even tho we might feel abandoned or lost or hopeless! He loves us and will never EVER leave our side!
Friday: we just studied a ton in Jacob 5 with the allegory of the tame olive tree! Super fun learning more about that! Elder Payne and I got into some deep doctrine in that!! Studied for hours lol we ended up playing basketball for our outside time and we played with some random people at a park it was super fun!! For the last couple days of quarantine President let us watch, "The Legend of Jonny Lingo" which ended out night perfectly!!
Saturday: I started off my day reading
"God will do something Unimaginable" by Elder Uchtdorf! It is a fantastic talk and you should read it lol haha
One quote I like was this
"In the past, we might have been so tied to traditional approaches that it took a pandemic to open our eyes. Perhaps we were still building with sandstone when granite was already available."
He is comparing us and our responsibility in the gospel to the Salt Lake Temple in the early times when they built the foundations!
Then he says this...
"God has revealed and will continue to reveal His almighty hand. The day will come when we will look back and know that during this time of adversity, God was helping us to find better ways—His ways—to build His kingdom on a firm foundation."
Everything with COVID seems crazy and were waiting for things to be back to normal but we shouldn't, this is the time to make things better in our lives and how we live the gospel! Our foundation needs to be build on Christ ways (Granite) and not our ways( Sandstone)! As we seek to do this our perspective will change in this time of adversity and we will change to be how God intends us to become!
Sunday: I FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON AGAIN!! I am so happy I've had the opportunity again to finish and to understand it even deeper then before! I'm so excited as well, I started it again today!! My mom challenged me to read in it 40 days from today to Christmas Eve to keep all my focus on Christ!!
I give this invitation to y'all as well!! I'll send the picture my mom sent me but I invite yall to do the same and as you study and ponder look for his attributes and mark them! Get a fresh copy of The Book of Mormon and start!! I know as we do so we can follow council of our Prophet and Apostles and find those attributes of Christ and work on one it and strengthen ourselves and deepen our relationship with Christ! We also had an amazing zone little conversation of zoom before our zone conference this week! We talked more about being a consecrated missionary and something hit me, Christ does not expect us to be perfect consecrated missionaries... its not possible or real but he wants us to be dedicated and progressing consecrated missionaries!! That's what I strive to be!! The last thing I'll end with is a little discouraging but were working through it the lady we taught the Restoration to cancelled on us twice this week, she said she was busy I just hope she will keep learning and striving to understand more! She has a solid testimony already! It's super powerful! So I'll update you there, Elder Payne and I had over 60 conversations with non members! We have 4 that are interested in more and we set up times to talk! So that's exciting!
INVITATIONS AGAIN:
1. both talks by Elder Holland
2. Elder Uchtdorf talk
3. Read Book of Mormon in 40 days
I love you guys so much!! When I send this I'll be done moving and playing basketball and I'm so excited to be FREEEE FROM COVID and to actually go play basketball for the first time with my zone 5 v 5 baby and its indoors!! SO READY!!
Ps. I was negative for COVID, and now I'm out haha
LOVE,
ELDER WOLD
Pictures:
1. Quarantine face mask pt 2
2. A delicious breakfast I made #omlet
3. A quote I love, you're here because he needs you here!
4. Loves others!
5. A Nachos lunch I made (hot sauce, chick fil a sauce, and ranch)
6. We have to have faith and trust, Heavenly Father knows what's best for us
7. I love this picture and the message of us ALL BEING ONE!
8. Favorite picture of Christ, His arms are always open for us!
9. Great quote!!
10. The Invitation to read in 40 days
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