Elder Nathan Wold’s mission in Atlanta, Georgia North Mission: Merry Christmas!! 🎄/ ALARMS?

Hello everyone! I'm currently writing this email at 3 am here in georgia at the stake center!!!! Haha man I'm tired, we had some problems with alarms (fire or carbon monoxide) in our home and were still not sure what's going on so we left and our trio is currently laying on the ground in the church haha picture will follow, but hey I get to write my email now! :)

Friends and Family!! This has been THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WEEK YET!! I am so so so HAPPY! Nothing could beat it!

Tuesday: We were still quarantined on this day but made it very useful! We studied alot! I loved learning about, Helaman 5:12 "

"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." Love this! I read all in Helaman this week as well as 1 Nephi 8-12 about the Tree of Life! I've learned as we build our foundation on Christ we can always be protected from the fiery darts of the adversary! I love the word remember! Helaman teaches His soms alot about remember and how important it is! Like it says in the sacrament prayer, "that you will always remember Him" we make a covenant to do so! What are you gonna do to always remember Him throughout the week and throughout everyday?

We ended up making about 150 pumpkin muffins for some members in our wards that was a SUPER FUN experience HAHA great bonding time for us as companions! But later we were able to reach out and get to know those people and just Love them!

Wednesday: were out of quarantine!! We did lots today! We helped out a guy next door because he asked for help to the apartment complex and the guy in charge said that we'd be willing to help him and as did!! We helped him move and he was going to live in cantan and was Intrested in what we were kinda chatting about as we moved and so we told the Cantan Elders and they've been in contact! Later that day after our studies which again! Amazing study I'll take more about it, but studying the Book of Mormon and a little faster pace is nice so I can kinda get the whole run down. Anyway we went and got a couch for the sisters and it barely fit in our car! After that it was later and we had an extra long companionship study and did facebokk finding, we posted a new post but the last one had over 1k comments which is INSANE!! so weve been slowly messaging them, some cool stuff about that later.

Thursday: everything thursday was good but I want to focus on GREAT! we had found this lady on tuesday over facebook, so we had been messaging her and seeing if we can meet! She said that would be great, so we talked to her Thursday and we found out she had some people pass away in her life so we taught the plan of salvation! IT WENT SOOOO GOOD!! She had so many questions, she understand the whole thing too mostly, so our challenge was for her to pray about it and come to church on sunday! She committed to coming to church with her daughter!

(I have more just you wait!!!!) I started to also study from the Topical Guide under

"Self-Sacrfice" this is something huge I am working on! How can I completely sacrifice myself to the Savior and for His gospel! I learned about Abraham and His son, about Simon Peter and everyone putting their whole lives down and following Christ, about Christ sacrificing everything about Himself for us!! I have so much more to share but please please go check this out, I an completely blown away.

Friday: Today was zone conference!! WHAT A INCREDIBLE AND FUN CONFERENCE THIS WAS!! .... President and Sister Harris challenged us to come with a gift to give to the savior mine was, giving up myself and creating a closer relationship with Christ! We talked about how to do that, KNEELING AT HIS FEET!! I love that!

You are a ordained minister of Jesus Christ! Hearing this just hit me deep! Especially after listening to "FEED MY SHEEP" by Elder Holland again! Ether 12:27

"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them"

This is Incredible, we all have strengths and weaknesses! Our goal is to continue in out strengths and using our strengths to strengthen our weaknesses! I was specifically called here to strengthen people while strengthening my weaknesses ---> that's the impression I felt during this meeting and I know it's the same for you all as well! Strengthen those weakness, turn to Christ he will show you how!

Dinner with Homans that night, Sweet little Lily Homan made me a card so cute :)

Saturday: we texted people in our ward to make sure Jeanette Love the person we found over Facebook could get a ride, with her daughter Destini, Jeanette is a single mom with her daughter, a niece, and two sons one of which is handicap and I was able to connect with her and tell her I know what it's like! Her and I have become close! After we figured out her ride We made mor muffins to give to less actives in our ward!

We then had the great chance to have DISTRICT COUNCIL!! man o man I love everyone in our district and you might say oh its because they're all sisters hardy har NOOO they mean so much more to me then you know! We have become close all together we ask questions constantly throughout the week, we share tender mercies, we ask for help, we teach what we learn! It has been incredible! At district council, I learned,

So much more about sacrifice and a ton about prayer, that was our focus! Praying with real intent, praying for people, family, friends, guidance etc. But most importantly praying to give thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father!! Prayer is so personal and special! PMG has so many great things with prayer that we can remember!

We then helped some people in our other ward and the sisters at Roy's home who has been previously taught with us and the sisters teaching! Hes a great guy! We dis yard work and the sisters stayed and chatted with him some more, after which we had our Zone Blitz AKA social media finding! We all get on a call and say a prayer as a zone then we all go out and find, I FOUND 7 people who are interested in learning more ANDDDD we have set appointments for them already this week!! LIKE WHAT.... MIRACLE :))) this is honestly the happiest I've been out here serving! Then of course Sunday happened...

Sunday: JEANETTE AND DESTINI CAME TO CHURCH!! She said shell bring her son Hose who's disabled next week!Yaya we were so happy! Our district all together had 10 people at church this week! This is kinda un heard of! But I had the chance to sit next to Jeanette and tell her about our service and about the sacrament, she asked some great questions that I was able to answer, she then brought up a scripture we shared earlier that week with her and wanted to know what a different verse meant and I didn't know the answer and neither did my companions so when we got home we prayed about it then searched and studied everything we could to understand it and we got a great answer and were excited to share with her tuesday! Now THIS IS THE HAPPIEST IVE EVER BEEN! IM SO VERY EXCITED TO TEACH MORE PEOPLE especially because weve all become close over messenger sharing personal life stories and about our lives its just amazing the vulnerability of people seeking for Christ!! Sunday night we sang Carol's to people that might feel alone during this time and we got to meet people we haven't met yet so that was exciting PLUS.... there's a family in our ward that only speaks Russian so weve been learning silent night in Russian and we sang it to the family!! They were grateful even tho we didnt do so hot haha! I cant even Express the Joy I have!! All I know is I want to keep at the happiness and Joy I only want it to increase:)!

Read these (haha I don't want the email to be too long, or else I'd explain them)

• Watch ya therefore, and pray always, - President Ballard - 2020

• Supernal Gift of the Atonement- James E. Faust - 1988

LOVE YALL SO MUCH!! email me updates cause I care!! :)

Love,

Elder Wold

Pictures 🥇

1. 3 am at the Stake Center haha

2. Couch in our car ;)

3. Getting pulled over

4. Waking up in the Church 6:30

5. Muffins, we called this a muffin roll lol