Greetings, what is up all you fine males and females! I hope all is well and late Happy Easter!!! Hope everyone had a good time and for those who watched General Conference I hope all of you got something from it, I know I did! but let's get right into this week's email
Spiritual thought: His timing
This week was different, one thing i have been studying a lot this week was the word hesed ( he-sed) in Hebrew- it translates to covenantal love which is another topic in itself. I will explain in another email another day down the road, I’m still learning. But this was a word or meaning I was counseled by my Stake president, my brother and my dad to study and to focus on the meaning of this word. As I have, it was like a light bulb switched on.
One small struggle I have had has been street contacting. I just say two words and lock up and don't say anything else but since studying this word and its meaning everything is starting to click. it's so amazing at the timing of when it happened. Sometimes we have struggles and often ask God or wonder why all these bad things are happening to us but it's important to understand everything happens for a reason- both the good and the bad. All of it was meant for a specific time in our life when we needed it and as we see that picture God is telling us or trying to teach us we soon see all those struggles and trials were for a reason and happened when they needed to happen.
My invitation is for all those who are going through hard struggles, trials or addictions or any sort of pain and affliction to look at it in the eternal perspective and think this is happening for a reason and I need to understand why and learn from it. As you realize that your struggles are there for growth everything becomes easier and things don't seem as bad as they look and you find out what you need to learn.
April 1
p-day! Was a good day! We started off the day just chilling in the apartment & then shopping. we went to boot barn to get a new belt and then to Walmart and got some electrolyte flavors for water since it's getting super hot here. Also we got on tornado watch all day so fun fun. Then we went bowling and one elder scored 225, crazy! After bowling we just came back to our apartment and chilled until we had a lesson with our friend Ann. oh ya also we watched someone blow a barn on fire and she ran but got caught by the cops. Unfortunately the fire got some of the house so super crazy that we got caught in the middle of all of it and watched the firefighters go put out the fire so fun p day.
March 2
Super chill day doing service, We helped a sister from church clean her house a little and then afterwards we did service at the food bank! so that was fun, over all a good day.
March 3
Friday was a chill day with a change. Something that happened to me was switched on like a light bulb. I just started being more bold when talking to people about what I believe and have been saying some bold statements during street contacting. I feel more myself knowing I can do it with confidence and I owe it all to my Heavenly Father who has blessed me with the ability to talk to everyone and to be bold about what I teach. During lessons with friends I am talking more. All of it feels so amazing!
We also made a new friend and she is so awesome! Her sister saw us drive by and said, Watch, those missionaries are going to come to us and we need to listen to what they have to say. So we talked to them and she was so excited when we gave her a Book of Mormon to read. Her name is Misty she is super sigma
March 4th
Man what an amazing General Conference! I learned and gained so much from the speakers. One thing that stuck out to me was to hear all the speakers talk about how its important to minister to everyone, including our families we are assigned to and to magnify our callings. When we are giving, and this is something my parents have always expressed to me is whenever you do something you do it all the way- not a half job. Do as much as you can to your ability even if it's something you don’t fully like, you should still do the best you can. When we are doing our best in our callings it opens the gate to let the Holy Ghost work with us. After, we went and had dinner with our friend Chuck and invited him to watch General conference and he said he would so that's good. I really liked the talk on ministering from Sister Kristen Yee. She said “If you want to feel grounded, gain a sense of divine belonging and make a real difference in the world, I invite you to follow the Savior and minister in His name.” And Elder Patrick Kearon, “Serving in callings is a choice and an offering to God, helping us grow and join the Savior in his work.”
March 5th
Sunday started off good, we woke up and headed to Fort Sill Army post. We did a baptism interview for someone who is getting baptized on the bct side. The other elders in Lawton are baptizing him, it was cool to have a small part in it. We had our service for the ACT side then headed to the church to watch General Conference. It was another good session! After conference, we had dinner with some members elder Siddoway knew from a year ago when he was in training. He has served in Lawton before. After that we just chilled and did our weekly planning.
March 6th
Pretty sigma day. We made a friend, she is a chiller and used to be taught by missionaries but got a new phone so lost contact with the missionaries and we decided to go knock on her door. She actually pulled in the driveway as we knocked and she is willing to learn more. We had another lesson with Robert who showed us his two ferrets he and his grandma have. They are apparently really good at stealing anything and everything lol after that we just did lots of knocking and walking around but over all a chill day!
March 7th we went on exchanges with the Zone leaders and i was with elder Taylor and elder Gold elder Siddoway went with elder Doeman. we had an amazing day, taught a lesson and made 4 new friends and they are all chillers and its been good out here in Oklahoma! We are currently in tornado season so we will see if we see any— low-key, I want to see a tornado. Unfortunately my mom doesn't want that to happen lol but its ok. over all a good day- loved working with elder Taylor and elder Gold. They are such (Chad's) if you know you know.
Over all a sigma day
Well that's all for today folks keep crushing life, no shout outs this week sadly but thats ok one day someone will get one idk when tho but feel free to email me or if you want to send me a letter reach out to me and I will send you my address ps if you send a letter don't write in cursive I can't read cursive. But I love to hear from everyone.