Greetings, what is up all you fine males and females? Hope you are all doing fabulous. I know that I have been having a great week! So with that let's get right into this week's letter…
Spiritual thought
Something that has come up to me is two verses I was reading in 2 Nephi 10:23-24
And the say. ( 23- therefore cheer up your hearts and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life”
24- wherefore my beloved brethren reconcile yourselves to the will of god and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; remember after ye are reconciled unto god that it is only in and through the grace of god that ye are saved) i love these two verses! it's important we understand our purpose here on earth. Our time here is only temporary and one day we will go back to live with our Father in Heaven and we have to make an effort here to get back to Him. No one is making us follow Him or have Him in our life but I can promise you both in my own life and seeing in others lives, you CAN NOT AND WILL NOT MAKE IT in this life without Him at the center. He will always stretch out His hand to you to help you!
Jesus Christ has done so much for us and suffered so much for us and I feel that sometimes we ask for more from Him and expect Him to immediately make us better when we haven’t put forth our own effort to prove we are serious-such as attending church, partaking of the sacrament, reading and praying, keeping the Sabbath day holy and i myself was not the best at all of these things but I have seen how much more joy I feel when he is the center of everything I do. I lay my head down at each night knowing I made time for Him and I was walking in His path trying to be more like Him.
My invitation to all of you is 1) to see how much time you give to your Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ and 2) make more time even if that's one more minute of time praying or If there are 2 more verses in your scriptures. Take that time in your morning or at night to draw yourself closer to your Savior! take time out of your day to make Him part of it. I can promise all of you that as you consistently do so, you will see the joy and see that days become more fulfilling. I have come to see that while on my mission.
April 8th
P-day!! Super sigma day, we woke up and just chilled around for a little. Elder Siddoway went back to sleep, he was tired. I was doing my laundry and cleaning our kitchen 😆 later we went bowling again at Thunderbird bowling alley and had a lot of fun. our zone leader Elder Domen bowled a 245!-that's a lot of strikes you need in order to get that score. I did okay, I'm no pro but I'm learning. After bowling we went to some thrift shops and I got a tie and a new shirt and then we went to Atwood's which is basically Oklahoma's version of IFA or cal ranch whatever you want to call it and it was fun to walk around and try out some ropes. I wanted one but too much money but that's OK I got three at home waiting. Also I still have yet to find a site that sells the lamb feed I would give to my lambs during the fair. all that is sold here is sunglow show feed, not a bad feed by any means but i prefer the showrite newco grower feed myself and no one sells it here sadly but thats OK.
After all that, I went to the church and chilled out, called my family and hung out with the other elders.
Over all a good day
April 9th
What a day- we had an amazing lesson with our friend Kendra and she is so awesome, she wants to get baptized into our church. She felt like when she was 3 weeks old her baptism never meant anything since she had no say in it and she fully believes in our teachings and wants her 11 year old son to attend church with her and he wants to come! We felt so blessed to talk with her. After that we went and worked at the food bank just cleaning most of the time. other than that just a chill day.
April 10th
We went over to our friend Lavonne and helped her clean her house and get it ready for a yard sale and then we went to our friend Robert and taught him about temples. It was so fun to teach him and we are so excited for his baptism coming up. Other than that, a chill day
April 11th
Today was a sigma day. We first went to visit our friend Kendra again and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and she loved it and is willing to do anything to be baptized. God truly has put her in our path at this time! She is ready to make the commitments to God and we are so excited to help her. Then we went to a super cool German restaurant for lunch that a friend named Craig took us to and it was such good food but the dessert was soo good! I had German cheesecake so good 10/10 🙌🏼
After that we talked with another friend named Kay Kay and she is bringing her 3 grandchildren to church so that's awesome! After that we went and had dinner with a family member and it was good! It was their version of Chipotle. What a good day, God has truly blessed Lawton. Tomorrow is another exciting day at Fort Sill post and our home ward church.
April 12th
3 months down!!!! 21 more months left- light work ladies and gentlemen but today had its ups and downs. to start off the day we went to the post chapel was locked so we could not bless and administer the Lords sacrament to the soldiers sadly so we went back to our apartment to do a personal study and it was goods I finished Nephi 9 after a month since I had been reading slow and understanding the chapter better but now I can start chapter 10 finally. Then we went to our home ward church for a fast and testimony meeting and we had one friend show up. Her name is Elizabeth and she loved it so we were super excited about that! After church we had our weekly planning.
March 13th
It was a chill day. We had our last lesson with Robert before he had his baptism interview and he did really good! after teaching Robert we visited and walked around all day and had a lesson with our friend Misty and her little granddaughter came running out and give a big hug she was so cute how do you say no to a 3 year old running up to and hugging you, she did it 3 more times that day lol and her grandson jayshawn wants to be like us when he grows up, he wants to spread the good word to everyone which was so cool and she is also wanting to learn more about the Book of Mormon. Overall, a chill day.
March 14th
Today we had an exchange with the Zone leaders. I was with elder Doeman and elder Gold and it was a fun day. We had an amazing comp study at McDonald's and then biked in the rain all day and it was so fun! I love biking in the rain! We ran into some puddles and had so much fun even being soaking wet I was having a blast and it was awesome to learn more about elder doemen and elder gold and then we had Volleyball and it was sigma time overall a good day. oh also got bashed at McDs which was funny but it's okay
Well that's all for today folks, keep crushing life ya'll. Jesus loves you! Till next week
Elder Saunders
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