Goooood morning and what is going on all you fabulous fine males and females! we are back at it again with another email from the blessed land of Skiatook Oklahoma!!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Much has happened- some crazy spiritual experiences have happened this week so let's get into it…y’all grab your popcorn, grab your treats and take a seat- let's begin…
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Our mission has been growing so it will be soon splitting into two! Watch me open a letter from my mission president to know what mission of Oklahoma I will be in! Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Mission or Oklahoma, Tulsa Mission
Address for any mail
704 W 5th St, Skiatook, OK 74070
Scripture of the week
Man, the weekly spiritual thoughts have been lowkey slacking so I will try do better at this hahah
But today I’ll share something from Thursday’s Zone Conference. Something I really loved was how personal the messages were to all of us missionaries. President Huffaker really expressed that it's important that we give it our all. If we do only a half job at our work the Lord can only magnify our best efforts. He encouraged us to try to do a 100% job all the time but he also expressed how we are all different and our 100% might look different to someone else's 100% so it's important we don’t compare, just do what we can. We are all working on our own journey and as we let go of our faults and let the Lord work with us, let Him guide us, we will be more centered in Him and feel the Holy Ghost more in our life. Elder Ulisses Soares said, “I know that when the Lord sees even a spark of desire or a flicker of righteous effort in our willingness to center our lives on Him and on the ordinances and covenants we make in His house, He will bless us, in His perfect way, with the miracles and tender mercies we need”
May 13th
P-day was an awesome day, we started off the day going to a member of our ward's house and went into their home built sauna and it was so relaxing. Then we did a polar plunge. they had a little water tub that was super cold and man it was a shock! After we headed over to the play monopoly with the Lake Valley elders. Elder Hunting won again so we need to change that next time but after that we just chilled at the house and watched The Chosen. overall a good day prep day.
May 14th
Man today was so spiritual. We had Zone Conference and it was so good to see other missionaries I haven’t seen in a bit. I got to see my MTC companion Elder Stinson and it was so good to see him again. I also saw Elder Cook, Fonohema, Douglas and Bauder, the original squad in the gore zone and it was good to see everyone. We got to hear from Sister and President Huffaker and the APs and they all taught really good lessons. They talked a lot about our personal conversions and it was so good. And then, after the zone conference, it was just a spiritual waterfall.
First we called Devin and he told us how he had been having a bad day and he was saying a pray asking God for help and right as he said his prayer, we called him We read in 2 Nephi and he had not cried in a long time but he felt the Holy Ghost and said he was crying because he knew God was telling him He was aware of him and he wants to keep growing his relationship with God. (please pray for him, he wants to quit smoking)
After we talked to him, our friend Abigail's mom reached out to us asking for two Book of Mormons. Her dad and grandmother were wanting them and it was so cool to hear! but man what an amazing day.
May 15th
Friday was a good day
We had a lesson with Devin and have been teaching Gods plan of salvation to him and he loved all of it. its clicking for him and he just loves having us over and we also gave him a priesthood blessing and he was overcome with joy and really wants to keep growing his relationship with God and he said we feel like real friends to him more than his actual friends. It's amazing how God can help those who seek him.
We talked with some people who had been taught in the past by missionaries and we got to talk to a guy who does welding for the union and he said it's definitely worth doing for a little while because you get crazy money. We mostly knocked on doors and talked to people on the streets. Good day tho.
May 16th
Welp today we got bashed again by someone who believes differently and doesn’t know how to be civil about it 😆 but somehow I was calm and collected and honestly was surprised at what I said but it definitely was not fun 🙃 so luckily we got out with no bumps or scrapes.
We went to a small town called Havant and walked around there to talk to people and met a guy named Dakota who is a absolute goat 🐐 He lives in Tulsa so it’s not our area but we gave him a card that has an address to the church in Tulsa and he said he would check it out . We also stopped to talk to a friend but he wasn’t there, we spoke to his wife and well, umm he may be in jail till next month soo ya but also stopped at a members house which was cool and overall all good day.
May 17
Well ladies and gentlemen some big stuff happened this glorious Sunday so let's do it–
First off, church was awesome! Our friend Devin came to church, he was ready and waiting at his house for 20 minutes before his ride came and he was so happy to be at church- so much so he shed some tears so he definitely felt the love of God and the Holy Ghost. It was awesome to see his smile the whole time. After church we headed back for lunch and I had two hotdogs hahah super good 🌭🌭
After that we did our weekly planning and then headed to our member meal and we got to talk to the Mcdormans who are awesome. They have 3 kids and one of them is working towards a mission!!! 🎊🪅🎉 We had a super fun time and taught an amazing lesson about the gospel of Jesus Christ and after that headed to the small town of Vera. There we walked around looking for people to teach. We talked to kid named Wyatt and gave him a BOM ( book of mormon) and then I got a email from President Huffaker and for those of you who don't know the Oklahoma mission has grown so much that it is being split into two missions (Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Mission) and (Oklahoma Tulsa Mission) so this email I got was a letter telling me where I will serve my mission for the Lord going forward and if you want to know where I am going you will have to ( go to my Google photos album and watch the video of me reading my letter) I know where I am going but you will have to watch but over all a good day.
May 18th
Well Monday was a little slow. We just did a lot of knocking on doors and walking. Elder Davis joined us for the day, he us a service missionary here in Skiatook okc and we had a blast. We tried to cook enchiladas but failed miserably 😢 it's ok. Then we went to bible study at the church and man what a great discussion we had. We covered how important it is that we give it our all as we follow Christ. You are either all in with Him and obey all His commandments or you don't follow one or more of them and you can't be with Him but over all a good day. So grateful for Jesus Christ and His atonement so that we can repent every day as we work toward following Him perfectly.
May 19th
Man what a good day! To start off the day we almost got struck by lightning so that was fun. Watched a barn catch fire 🔥, had to sit under a tree for a lesson while it rained, such a fun. Day. 😆🙃😆🙃
First off we had a lesson with Devin and we finished teaching God’s Plan of Salvation and he basically is so committed to quit smoking its so awsome, pls keep him in your prayers. we all have matching dog tag necklaces that say ( Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) After the lesson we came back to the apartment and changed in our suit pants and grabbed our suit coats and headed to teach Abigail. We taught the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ to her and she loves it so much. Abigail has the strongest testimony I have ever seen in a 8 year old and fun fact-she is reading high school level reading which is crazy. I was not reading like that at 18 let alone 8. We told her we may leave around June 10th, Elder Hunting will be moving because he is staying in the Oklahoma, oklahoma city mission. It was so cute, she was so sad to hear it she started crying. She truly has loved being taught by us and so we scheduled her baptism for June 9th of 2026. We are so excited to continue teaching her and she is ready for baptism! Afterwards, we headed to Tulsa to have our interviews with President Huffaker and we had an awesome conversation together and just talked about some questions that I had that were a little personal to me so I will not share in this email, but definitely were some things I needed to talk to him about and have just helped me further direct myself in life.
After that we headed home for the day. It was an amazing day.
Well folks thats all for this week hopefully you all have a great rest of your week and hope life is happy as always see you on the next one!
Elder Saunders