I am so GRATEFUL!

 HEY HEY!! this week was super exciting!! We have been in our new apartment and area now for a week! Makes it so much easier to do missionary work let me tell you haha! I'm so grateful for President Nelson and his message Friday! I think it's so important to show our gratitude to our Heavenly Father and to Jesus Christ!! They are everything to us! Service is a great way to show our gratitude for them and also to everyone else! So weve had alot of chances to serve and SOO MANY MORE on the way! To start off,

Monday night: we ended up going to a non members home! The Schrimsher Family, they are absolutely incredible! Such strong testimonies of Christ and His sacrifice! We got to talk about the bible and that was super fun! We shared psalms 126:5 and we had a great conversation about it and it says, "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." You have to have those hard times to be able to feel joy!! It was so fun sitting around the fire pit with their 4 kids and talking about that! We are going back over this week and are gonna talk about The Book of Mormon!!!!!!! 

Tuesday: I read two talks! Both great and I encourage yall to read them 

1. President Oaks, " Sharing the Restored Gospel" 

2. Elder Christofferson, " Sharind the message of the Resurrection and Restoration" 

President Oaks speaks on ways we can be teachers of the gospel he gives steps, he talks alot about genuine care for people and Chrisy-like love! 

Also today I had my first zone conference! It was super cool!! A couple things I loved...

• "Change starts with desire"

• "If it is to be, It is up to me" 

• Good, Better, Best principles 

• Obedience in EVERYTHING!! And a huge emphasis on making sure that we submit our will to the Lords!!

Tuesday night we went to a families house the Denisions, they are a family of 6 and SO AWESOME!! very very kind family and super fun and easy to connect with! We are going for dinner in 2 weeks! They have a son working for a mission so we got to share a message about a Refiners Fire! If you haven't already I posted something from a person in our area that had their house burn down! He tells a story and it is SOO POWERFUL!! I invite yall to check in out on my Facebook! Then later played basketball with YSA and talked to 3 new non members that go every week, they play Tuesday and Thursday so were excited to start teaching them! 

Wednesday: Elder Payne and I have been studying from Topical Guide and studying under all the scriptures under the words we pick! We picked Self-Mastery! Lemme tell ya its INCREDIBLE!! go look at it! So many great things to learn! 

Today was the day President Harris gave us new rules..... he wanted us to unfollow everyone on Facebook except our family, and the people in our area, we can still be friends with everyone but unfollowing makes it so we cant see people's post and he felt like that's what needs to happen! Its been amazing and uplifting! So happy for revelation in our lives!! 

We ended our day Hours and Hours of service! We did christmas decorations, wood cutting, mulch, painting etc. 

Thursday: 

We finished our Family mission plan that has a WIDE variety of ideas and things people can do for missionary work! Weve been meeting with families to discuss what goals they wanna make and what they want to do every week! Their are so many ideas that there's something for everyone! We gave service to a man named Roy with the Sisters in our ward after service we talked and all 4 taught him The Restoration! We prayed with him and gave him a Book of Mormon! That night we went to the Newbolds home a family in our ward and taught them! It's a single dad with 3 daughters, he was a fun and cool guy! He was recently divorced and struggling but was so happy we came over, he said our presence made such a difference in his life! Just the Light we brought, that made me so happy!! I'm happy that we could provide that for someone! 

Friday: I listened to "His grace is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox! I won't go in depth because I am not as good of a speaker as he is!! PLEASE GOOOO LISTEN AND STUDY THAT TALK!! ITS AMAZING!! 

That afternoon President Nelson gave his Message of Hope and Healing! What a great opportunity we had to all be United at the same time, I FELT HOW POWERFUL THAT WAS ESPECIALLY when he said the prayer!! Just remember the 3 things he invited us to do (BTW hes the prophet and receives revelation from Jesus for the WHOLE WORLD so like if hes telling us to do this I'd do it haha) 

1. Turn social media into gratitude journal 

( post everyday for 7 days of what you're grateful for) 

2. Say a prayer of Thanks to God

3. Build a stronger relationship with our Savior 

WOW!!!! Such great inspiration, I invite yall to closer look into this and follow the prophet and Jesus Christ!! This will be such a powerful thing in everyone life and will provide opportunities to meet people and help others come to Christ!! 

After this message Elder Payne and I went to dinner with the Stevensons in our ward and I had my first Southern Meal!! "Low country boil" IT WAS ABSOLUTELY DELICOUS!!!!!!! we got to talk about the message and it was great hearing their testimonies! After dinner is when it got CRAZY FUN! we went to a park with 4 sisters and there was about 7 of us Elders, we set up free Hot CoCo the catch was people would have to sign our poster for what they were grateful for!! We got tons of convos!! Proabbly gave over a 100 cups of coco out! A couple phone numbers too. So there's a basketball court in the park and me, Elder Payne, and our good friend Elder Tarkalson had people playing basketball get Hot coco then we asked if they wanna ball and they said come rn so we did HAHAHA in our proselytizing clothes we played 5 on 5 with all these guys! It was us 3 on a team with a couple guys we met!! We ended up winning out the rest of the games (3games in a row then everyone playing left HAHA) 

I HAD A NICE DUNK!! Everyone there went crazy and was like HOLY OH MAN!! haha so that was fun and were gonna do it again this Friday and hopefully set up lessons with these dudes, they were open to it! 

Saturday: we had a district car wash from 11-2 and got some new contacts to teach! Super fun HAHA just a great time with Elders! We ended our night from 3-6:30 we gave service to these people ( we sent out a service ad to huge groups in our area and its blowing up) they had leaves everywhere and WE DIDNT EVEN FINISH HAHA we made piles taller then me haha I'll send a video of me jumping in one that was pretty small! But we came back and studied for awhile!! I've been doing the challenge to read the Book of Mormon in 40 days and I'm RIGHT ON TRACK! I encourage yall to continue it! Soooooo

Invitations for this week:

1. Take President Nelson's message to heart and do those 3 things 

2. Read the talks (Oaks, Christofferson, Wilcox) 

 And I just made this one but 

3. Send me an email of your favorite Scripture either Bible or Book of Mormon! 

I love you all so much!! I probably should go back and read this again but I'm too lazy and wanna play basketball haha! Yall are in my prayers and I'm so grateful for yall in my life and what you've done for me!! Remember to be Thankful in everything!! 

LOVE YOU LOTS!!!!

Love, Elder Wold 

Pictures:

1. Elder Wold, Elder Larson, Elder Seely! Homies! 

2. Getting Cold haha down in the 40s 

3. Elder Shaws bday breakfast, Kua and I made it for him! 

4. The team that took it all the way!! This guy kept saying our score then would say "varsity" HAHA it was so funny both were ballers! 

5. Just messing around dunking ;) 

6-7. All the people involved in Hot CoCo idea!! ( one of the best nights of the mish)

8. A quote I love!! 

9. The video of jumping into leaves HAHA

10. Southern boil