🌊🐋Allatoona #Arizona!🏜🩳

 Hey everyone!! Sorry I didn't write last week. A week ago that was the last week before transfers!! It was incredible! Elder Calhoun and I found and taught so many people. We met these amazing people who were so excited to receive the Restored Gospel. Another week of finding big. Sadly that Sunday I got the call that I'd be leaving Tuesday to Allatoona!! It was sad to leave all my friends I've made and so many people progressing!! 

Luckily Leo Wall asked me to baptize her so I could come back the follow Saturday for that. She is awesome. I've grown close to that family. 

I'm grateful for Allatoona and the wonderful experiences I've had here already. This ward is literally just straight people from Arizona -> specifically Mt. View area. Many people who had grandpa Wold as an institute teacher. KINDA CRAZY!! fun to talk about stories and know so many people they're talking about. This ward and the members are on a different level. They love and care so much! They are all in with doing missionary work. 

There are many part member families we've started to work with. The Lance family, the Wilder Fam, and the Foster Family. We are stoked to be with them and for some families to bring their friends. 

We found this dope guy named Jay. We were driving in a complex and we wanted to talk with everyone and he was walking so we pulled over the car almost hitting him and taught him the Restoration. HE LOVED IT. we come back the next day and all his homies and his homies girlfriends are there. So we tesch them about the Book of Mormon and Jesus Christ Church, relating it back to the Restoration!! 

My new companion is from Brazil! His name is Elder Apolonio. He has been out for 18 months so we have been grinding together. We have the sweetest lady Tanya Patton. She was baptized last week as well. We teach her every other day. She is going to the temple in the next couple weeks. She made us gumbo and Crab. It was the definition of AMAZING!! she has a wonderful family she has been teaching the gospel so slowly we have been able to teach them. 

One thing I've learned a lot recently is Humility! I've learned how our Savior is humble and submissive and Obedient and trusting. I pray and hope that I can continue to emulate him. I've seen the impact it has as we strive to be humble and full of charity! I read recently in Helaman with Nephi and Lehi Helamans sons. It's so cool to see the preparation and work they put in. I love how they are humble enough to do the Father's will and to trust in him. They keep the commandments. They pray and fast oft. They increase their faith. As well as their father reminds them to always remember! 

I love that reflection on other before us. On our past self. On our faith on the things we're learning. Remember remember. They put forth their effort and faith. Even though Lamanites put them in prison it could not hold them. They were encircled with Fire or protection. They were ministered to by angels. Their faith wrought a miracle. In the end they convert thousands of people because they were OBEDIENT AND WORTHY!! it teaches us these people to the darkness of a cloud. No matter where we came from or what we've done or even if we just have lost our momentum we can come back to the encircled fire. The protection, the love, the guidance, the strength that comes from Jesus Christ and His ministering angels. 

I know that as we strive everyday to do what President Nelson has said and to work on our conversion by turning outward and being a refined instrument in the Lord's hand. We will be protected and encircled with Fire and Angels. We will have more divine power access our life. We will get a sense of what it is like to be celestial and perfect even as our Father in Heaven is. I'm grateful for the things I'm learning. 

Family and Friends, ☆THIS IS MY LIFE☆

My mission both here in Georgia and for the rest of my life is to help others come home to our Heavenly Father!! That is the purpose for which I and you have been created. As we strive to help our fellow man we are serving God. We are also learning Heaven. We are becoming joint heirs with Christ!! I so testify of my Savior! He is the Christ! He lives and loves us individually!! He has been sent by our Loving and Omnipotent Father! 

Because of His love Jesus Christ has saved us from Spirtual and Physical Death. It's up to us to now become Perfect in Christ and deny oursleves of all ungodliness. As we do so there will be no thing, no source, no temptation, or sin that can drag us down. We will have his Power! 

I know it is through the Doctrine of Christ that we can continue to access His power. As we live, love, and Learn the Doctrine of Christ we will also be better teaches of the Doctrine of Christ. I know that the covenants and promises we make our crucial to the Plan our Father has given us. I plead with each of you just like our dear Prophet has to get onto the covenant path and stay there. Be worthy, be joyful! Especially finding joy in DAILY REPENTANCE!! what a blessing and a source of strength and light! 

I promise in the name of our master Jesus Christ that as you repent daily and change 1 percent you will reach the Divine Potential our Father wants us to reach. You will better understand covenants. You will see His love and blessings and miracles more abundantly in your life. I'm grateful for these things that have changed me. I'm grateful for the consistent change I've seen. 

This is an ongoing Restoration, especially one for oursleves! I know these things to be true because of the powerful witness I've received from the Holy Spirit. I love each of you with all my heart and pray for my family and friends always. I hope you can feel that! Always remember Him, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

LOVE, 

ELDER WOLD

2 wonderful talks 

" Conversion is our goal" 

" In Awe of Jesus Christ and His Gospel"