I am gonna apologize in advance! I didnt have alot of time today to write this email! But I would love to share some of the cool experiences/miracles I saw this week as well as things that have strengthened my testimony and deepened my knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!
This week was transfers so you know I was super excited when I heard I was getting my boy ELDER LARSON!! we were really good friends in online MTC!! When we saw each other! We literally freaked out haha! So happy to be companions with him!! So it is me, Elder Shaw, and Elder Larson!! And we had honestly such a great week and we worked so hard! We set goals and worked on things to keep each other accountable and to stay obedient in all we do! And I can testify that as we set those and have kept each other accountable we have seen blessing and miracles! I'm so grateful for their example and their love and willingness to work hard, we had to fix and talk about many different things this week but I would definitely say this has been the most fun, successful, just happy time! I love my companions!!!! We have been using Facebook a good amount and talked to A TON of people this week, we taught 2 lessons with people we found and we set up 2 as well for this upcoming week! We talked with a guy named Tim and he was open to hearing anything and asked questions about our faith! We answered them and taught him half of the Restoration and half of the Plan of Salvation! Afterward he said he wants to take us to dinner and talk more so were excited! Andy from the last couple weeks could not make it to church because of work but we talked and he said he wants to really badly come this week with his whole family!! Super excited for him and how hes been desirous to learn!! The last person I will talk about is someone we talked with at WALMART!!! YAYA! so our mission has a new thing to TALK TO EVERYONE (invite everyone, and invite them to invite others to hear our message) sooo I gave a training on that last week and I asked myself if I'm teaching about this I really gotta implement it in my work! Sooooo that's what we did!! At walmart I told my companions that I wanted to start slow and just talk to 2 people today while we were getting groceries! So while we were walking LITERALLY! this lady walked past and I saw she was looking at our tags so I said hey hows it going, and she respond good and we got talking about how my companions and I are missionaries for the church and she said awesome then we invited her and she very kindly turned us down.. but that was effort and I did it so I was proud then like 5 min later i saw this worker walk out of the back and i just felt strongly i needed to talk to her! So I told my companions and we "accidentally walked into her"
I said Heyy, hows it going? And she responded great and asked can I help you with something, I said no then after that we got talking and she asked about our tags and about who we were, the next 30 min we talked while she was working! She asked questions and we answered them! She kept saying how there is no way it was a coincidence she met us and talked, she explained that he grandpa just died and she was trying to figure that all out and we tlaked about it, then she said the way you smiled and joked with me just gave me so much joy, she said when we gave her our names she felt like she knew us and it was a weird feeling! Then lastly she said I feel like I'm supposed to meet you!! IT WAS HONESTLY THE BIGGEST MIRACLE AND SO COOL !! talk to everyone! Invite everyone!!! YESSSSSSS
So we got her number and asked if we can meet with her or even just video call and teach her! She said she would lobe to do that and understand more about something we said! HOLY TENDER MERCY FOR BOTH OF US!!!!
so happy right now hahaha AHHHH
Anyway that about sums up the week but I will share a couple things I learned and loved!
One thing that really stood out to me was in Alma 17:24-25 so this is when Ammon comes to king Lamoni! I love this because President gave a some of us a training to help us help our our districts and misisoanires in general! When Ammon comes to Lamoni, Lamoni becomes pleased with Ammon because of how righteous and great he is! So he offers his daughter to him!
This is how it connects, President explained! Throughout out work we will have those moments where members or others will offer us great and amazing things wether it be, come watch the superbowl, or come play games with us... etc. But the purpose of us being on a mission is to serve and that's why I love Ammon's response!
" Nay, but I will be thy servant" how powerful is that! He gave us those fun, cool, or in this a beautiful daughter to just serve and change lives! I know that we can apply this to us( might not be the best analogy haha) but we will have those things come up wether on a mission or out in the world and worldly things come up! I promise that as we focus on the things we need to focus on like missionary work and serving and as we go do that we will be blessed and br able to change and love people like Christ and even as Ammon did for Lamoni and His people!
( Hopefully that kinda made sense haha)
The last thing I'll share, plus I will invite you to read a talk but first
Mathew 14: 22-33 the story of Jesus and Peter walking on water! I like this story especially because of some deeper meaning I was able to find! In the story Peter has the faith to walk to Jesus, so he goes and does. He then becomes afraid and sinks, but Jesus IMMEDIATELY SAVES HIM!! He was right there ready to save Him and love him I think its important to understand He is there for us! The other thing is, I was speaking with the Stake President and he had great insight about how we wonder if Peter remembers that experience as He sank or as He was walking on water! He made a great comparison to us, he mentioned that sometimes we compare ourselves and we like were sinking and nothing's working but more times then not we are walking on water and blessing people! We walk on water more then we think and we should he looking for those unique and incredible experiences cause they happen all the time! I'm grateful for this insight! I know for a fact you all walk on water as do as Christ does and I invite you to continue to do that! I love you all so much! Thank you all for the support! I just want to invite yall to read this talks!!
• "Rise to your call" - 2002 Elder Erying
• "Becoming like Him" -2020 Elder Whiting
Love yall!! Have a great week keeping being you, dont ever let someone change you! Your personality is so unique and that and your talents and efforts will be used to further the word of the Lord! Keep pushing, keep working, and keep loving!!
Love,
Elder Wold
Pictures!! Not alot haha:
1. Picked up Larson... LETS GOO
2. First night together!!
3. Talk I shared!! A good quote!
4. Another great quote by the one and only President Hinkley
5. Love this quote, it's been really powerful to me
6. JESUS CHRIST :)
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