OH MY GOODNESS!! WHATS UP! SO SORRY ABOUT THE 2 WEEK DELAY AGAIN! hahaha I'm getting worse and worse. I have been absolutely wasted, exhausted, and completely and utterly destroyed. But, IM SO HAPPY AND SO BLESSED! today I had the chance to rest and prepare for this week. These past 2 weeks have been the definition of a grind! I've realized I didn't come out here you know to talk to some people, teach some people, and just help them! I CAME OUT HERE TO TALK TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON, TO TEACH ALL NATIONS, AND TO SERVE THEM THROUGH CHRIST-LIKE LOVE! I came here to help them make unique promises with our Most High! Our loving Heavenly Father! all I can say is i dont want this power that I've felt or these experiences I felt to just be a switch I turn on. I want it to be my character and how i live my life! I'm grateful for these tiring and exhausting weeks because it has started to help me realize and become the person God needs me to become for His purpose! Friends and Family I know that we all have very specific and special attributes and qualities and gifts and talents! Christ has asked us to continue to strengthen those but to also, "humble ourselves before him and have Faith, he will make our weakness become strengths" I know this is true! This is how we can become what our Father needs us and desires us to become! Align your will with His, follow Him, pray in faith to Him, keep your promises with Him, and do all you can to become more like Him and specifically more like the person your Father desires you to become!!
This 2 weeks have been INSANE!! the start of this 2 weeks we had Zone Conference and my companion and I had a chance to train our whole zone! We helped them understand how to contact people! That has been our biggest thing to hit on is TALKING TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON EVER! by using the BOOK OF MORMON! we role played and talked about the things we've learned from reading the book of Mormon recently! The Spirit was so powerful! We learned all about what we can do to become the best version of ourselves! We learned how to be better with planning especially planning lessons and putting forth the effort so that the Lord can then provide! Let me tell you, HOLY MIRACLES FROM THAT! this past week we have been on top of planning lessons in depth! Obviously its bot always gonna be right on the plan but all 15 of our lesson during the week were incredible! We put Kenford and Michelle on date!!
Kenford will be baptized on July 31stand is progressing so well! We gave him a blessing a couple lessons ago because of the hard situation he is in with his family and his mom with cancer! The Spirit was so powerful as I laid my hands on his head and used the Authority of God to bless through him one of His children! We helped Kenford become familiar with prayer again and he said one of the most heart felt prayers I've ever heard!
Michelle is gonna be baptized on August 14th! She is 17 years old and graduated High School! She wants to be closer to God! We have taught her 2 lessons and the Spirit prompted us to invite her to be baptized and she accepted and loved it! She will be attending church with us this Sunday! She is prepared!
What amazing miracles! I could go on and on for hours about these tender mercies and miralces! I would like to share 2 more though.
Roger Page is a STUD! he is high functioning Special Needs and OH MY FLIPIN GOODNESS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! we talk about basketball all the time and study from the Book of Mormon! For the first time he said the prayer after we taught him how, and literally besides Kenford, one of the strongest, most powerful prayers ever spoken! He talked about us coming over and loving him, he asked for us to be safe, he asked that his mom would let him come to Church with us again! I completely lost it and we just cried! HE IS A STRAIGHT ANGEL!!
Dede is a lady we taught in the past! We finally taught her in person but she was not in our area so we past it off to the sisters in our zone! They then taught her and invited us to come back and dedicate her home and give her a blessing! Dede asked me to give her a blessing and it was incredible! Dede has been into some interesting things in the past and has a rough life (her husband has been very abusive and she had to divorce him etc.) Her countenance complelty changed after the blessing! She is still super funny and spunky but she is more at peace! She gave us the biggest hug and she started to say something I always say HAHA "way cool" she says it literally all the time HAHHAA she is amazing!
I'm currently in Jacob in the Book of Mormon I've fallen behind a little! But I will catch up this week! We did 4 exchanges last week and have 2 this week! I'm so grateful for the chances I have to be with so many great missionaries to learn from them and to also have the chance to help each other grow our testimonies and to just go out and work our butts off!
I'm extremely grateful to be a disciple of Jesus Christ in all things, in all places and at all times! I have never felt such a great love then being out here serving the people of Georgia and the people in my zone! What a blessing it is to feel personally Heavenly Fathers love for all! It's also crazy how he allows us to feel their afflictions and anguish! Oh how grateful I am to understand the Atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ, when we taught Kenford we read through Alma 7 and we all know verses 11-14 but there is so much more after those verses that I had never thought about! It hit me in the moment and as we testified to Kenford the Spirit was so powerful and we all knew that he will be baptized! What an amazing experience!
I have a talk I want everyone to read! It is worse then good
" Hearts Knit together" - April 2021 by Elder Stevenson
Also please go look at this... I cant stress this enough
" The Book of Mormon: what our life would be like without it" - President Nelson Oct 2017
As I have studied these talks and have continually studied the Book of Mormon and understood more about my Savior and more about His Doctrine and Gospel! The closer I come to understand Why The Book of Mormon! Why we have it, why we need it, and what it can do for me!
The Book of Mormon is the most powerful thing that we have in our hands! I have come to know my personal Savior and my brother in a higher and holier way! Our relationship has been strengthened and has deepened! I promise you with every inch of my being that you can feel the blessings of reading it everyday with a sincere heart, with real intent, with Faith, with desired to come closer to Christ, with love, with desires to seek how to bless others, and with open heart to know the truthfulness and the doctrine and principles it contains to personally bless you and your family and everyone around you!! I know I've been rambling forever but!
I LOVE THIS GOSPEL! I LOVE MY BROTHER JESUS CHRIST! I LOVE MY FATHER! I LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON! and I'm so happy that I have all of these amazing things and people in my life including friends and family to help me become the best missioanry, brother, son, spouse, friend, disciple, etc.
This is the only true and living church on this earth today and we have a Prophet of God called to bless each one of us! Seek His counsel, seek the council of our Savior and our Father, seek the counsel from the Book of Mormon! I love yall so much! Dont forget to read those 2 talks and also read atleast one chapter of the Book of Mormon this week so that you can share with me and I can share with you :)
Love yall so much!! Remember Moroni 7:48 (ponder this, this week)
" 48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen."
Love, Elder Wold 🤍🤍
PICTURES:
1. Zone Confernce with Elder Calton
2. Elder McCann and I (literally lives 10 min away from you in AZ so we know all of each other best friends and lowkey hung out at parties haha)
3. The Squad
4. Kim and our boys Elder Brimhall and Elder Hunter
5. Maddy a 90 year old sweet lady that we talked with
6. President Harris accidentally butt dialed the mission leadership
7. Fathers day so me and my dad
8. Roger Page
9-10. District pday golf/off white shoes
11. Elder Short and I on exchanges talking with our TLS (Sister Roane, Sister Anderson)
12. Exchanges with APS (Elder Rick and Elder Killpack, he was my last comp)
13. Strange Taco (exchange with Elder Riddle) out to eat with the TLS
14. Jersey Swap? #Tagswap exchanges with Elder Burg and Elder Campbell
15. Thing started in our zone, "Strap check" everyday someone calls it out and we take a picture with The Book of Mormon to make sure that we have one with us to give out!
Love yall hope you like the pics 🤍
