Hi Mom!
That’s another week down! 3 days left until I’m a Year Old Missionary!
So, let’s get right into it. IM GOING TO MEXICO! Got a call in the middle of an English with the most elect family in North Carolina. President Brown was telling me a few important dates, on the 30th the Mexican Consulate is going to Mexico to get some things figured out. And that the Church wants me in Mexico on the 14th of September! I cannot explain how many prayers and faith went into this moment. I have my Spanish tutor, Hermana Krueger, praying and fasting for me. The Mata family praying for me. Myself praying for me. And who knows whoever else, thank you btw. I dont want any of you to get the wrong impression though. I have loved the North Carolina Charlotte mission. And I fully intend to fight hard for the next month. I have invested a whole year here, and I know there is a lot of important things God needs me to still accomplish.
With that said let’s talk about how my week went. It was a pretty depressing week not gonna lie. We had way to many lessons fall through and that made our motivation drop slightly. We absolutely hate not being motivated so we have a few things planned this week that will help us rocket out of this rut we are in.
However my week wasn’t all bad. My good friend Jevah was baptized on Saturday! And I got to watch over zoom with another good fiend, Sister Kinikini, who honestly did all the heavy lifting in teaching Jevah. But the whole experience made me tear up a bit because it just made me realize that missionary work is hard but so worth it. Not just for Jevah. But being able to watch peoples eyes light up when they hear that Jesus Christ visited the Americas. Or feeling peoples excitement as they sit up and lean forward when we tell them about the plan of salvation. This gospel is so true I can’t I even. If you want to know how to find true peace, walk the covenant path.
Anyways I just want to make a comment about how much peace I have felt while on my mission. The spirit that is out here is powerful. I have been so blessed to witness Gods hand in my life and the lives of others in such a personal way that really I’m the only one who can ever see it the way I see it. It is in these moments that my testimony grows. I have tried very hard to put down in words in my small plates of Nephi (my spiritual journal) but I dont feel super impressed to right them here on what I suppose is becoming my large plates of nephi haha. I know this gospel is true. I know Christ lives. I know God our loving Heavenly Father lives. I know that I am child of God. That I have divine potential. That’s not just some small thing. We have a lot to look forward to after this life. I pray that those I teach can feel the love of God through my testimony. And I humbly say these things in the name of our awesome elder brother Jesus Christ, my good shephard. Amen.
Till next time,
Elder Service
