Thursday, July 20, 2017
I just can't stress enough to anyone the importance of trusting God. He truly loves you and wants what is best for you and it is so important we never forget that.
What a crazy, awesome week. First, we got transfer calls and Elder Greer and I will both be staying in the same area again so we are super excited about that. We have a lot of fun together and a lot of good work going right now. We also have birthdays the same week and will get to celebrate them as companions this transfer. We also got to celebrate our last birthday as companions so that doesn't happen very often. But this week was a great week.
On Tuesday, I got to go with one of my old companions, Elder Muse, to the temple with Amanda, someone we taught. It was such a special experience. She and her whole family had changed so much over the past 9 months since I started teaching her. On Friday we got to go to the temple with Ram to do baptisms for the dead and did the same thing on Saturday with Andrew. I'm sure that probably sounds a little weird so if you have questions about it, ask and I'll explain. What are baptisms for the dead?
We also put our investigator from Chile on date for baptism for August 5 so that'll be exciting. He is a professional table tennis player and we got to play him before church yesterday and he absolutely destroyed us. He's a super cool guy.
Something that I learned this week has to do with God's Plan. Sometimes, we as God's children, think we know what's best for us and what our plan needs to be. We sometimes forget that God knows best. I know I've had some struggles in life where I looked to God and asked why he was putting me through that trial or if he was even there. Looking back on my life from where I am now it is so easy to see just how much He has been involved in my every day life and how He has used me to help fulfill His plan. I just can't stress enough to anyone the importance of trusting God. He truly loves you and wants what is best for you and it is so important we never forget that. That's all I have for the week. Hope you all have a great week!
Monday, July 10, 2017
I had probably the best week of my whole mission so far.
Elder Potter and his good friend Logan
He did get very sunburned at a baseball game last P-Day.
4th of July P-Day Fun
Watching the Bees
I had probably the best week of my whole mission so far. Seriously everything that seemed to happen was something good. Andrew and Ram were so prepared for their baptisms and their services were so awesome. The spirit was very strong there and you could tell Heavenly Father was happy with the choices they were making to follow Him. They got confirmed (What is Confirmation?) on Sunday and Ram asked me to be the one to do that for him so that was a really cool experience. I also found out about a recently reactivated lady, Amanda, I taught a while ago is going to the temple for the first time tomorrow so I get to go with her and I'm so excited. She has come so far since I met her in November. On Saturday night we had a really great Temple Square lesson with a cool guy named Tre that we are teaching and his girlfriend. They really opened up to us and we have built a super good relationship with them and they want to start going to Temple Square with us weekly. So that'll be really fun. We ended the week by going to a recent convert/returning member devotional put on by some missionaries. Andrew was asked to speak at it and did an awesome job. It was pretty emotional. I was also asked to sing at it so that was pretty cool. It was a pretty awesome week. This is already the last week of the transfer so transfer calls are coming up. I'm not sure what will happen with me so we will have to see! Hope everyone has an awesome week!
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