October 10, 2016
Well, another week has passed,
and it's been another great one full of miracles left and right. To everyone
who thinks my emails are too long, I'm sorry haha. So BIG NEWS: we found out
over the weekend that transfers are this Friday so elder Mthethwa might be
leaving because he will only have three weeks left and the mission home is far
away, so we will either be in a trio or I'll have a new companion. Also...a member
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is coming to speak to all the missionaries
in our mission next Monday the 17th...Elder Quentin L Cook!!!! Which also means
I will not be able to email next Monday, but I'll be able to email next Tuesday
most likely!
After emailing last week, us and
the zone leaders went to a place called the Gower to visit with one of elder
Mthethwa and elder miners old converts, the family's name is the bxxxs. The
guy is named Jxx, this guy is freaking crazy, he's one of the funniest people
I've ever met, no filter what so ever. Super generous though, they bought all
of us lunch and dinner, and the Gower was stunning.
Tuesday was a sweet day. We had
some member visits and a great lesson with a cool guy named Jxxxn, he's 21, things
are looking good for that. We did some service at some man shed thing which was
kind of weird to be honest, but oh well. And we had dinner with Royston and
Fiona, I sent a pic with them a few weeks back. These people are my absolute
favorite. We spent three hours at their place eating and talking, which is two
hours too long to be at a dinner appointment, so we are gonna set up
appointments at 7:30 with them so we can say we have to leave for curfew, but
they are so funny, and super generous, Royston is like 78 apparently but he has
the energy and personality of a guy in his 20s. We all jammed out to some
gospel choir, and it was an amazing night. And happy birthday dad! Don't worry,
I didn't forget. Also, total miracle for the day, we were walking back from
town and we saw the sister missionaries sitting on a bench with a member, and
they had been trying to get a priesthood holder so they could give this member
a blessing, and the other elders just told them they couldn't at the moment,
and we walked up right at that moment and were able to giver her a blessing,
their prayers were answered, and I saw, first hand, how the lord directs are
paths.
Wednesday we really didn't do
anything too much, just a lot of finding people to teach.
Thursday we had district
meeting, and then some finding and talking to people at the city centre, it was
crazy, after awhile I was getting bored and tired of talking to random people,
and right when I said a prayer to regain excitement, the next person we talked
to said he'd love to meet up again and talk more! Man, God answers prayers
guys. He does, if I've learned one thing out here, that's it, but I've learned
more too. We also met with Kxxx again, man, she's so fetching solid, she
has her mind set on the 29th for baptism and she's gonna do it! We were walking
through city centre back to our flat around 7, and I saw like over two thousand
college students and there was a dj and I got so hyped. Finally, people out
past 5pm! And I couldn't do anything, but I was pretty excited to see that this
city had some night life.
Friday, a member took us to an
all you can eat place which was really good. We met with Axxxn after and a new
investigator named Axxxa. She's had a really hard life, like crazy hard, but
she really wants the gospel because she knows it'll bless her life, she told us
she wants to get baptised, wow. She wants to aim for November 12th,
flip...miracles, so many miracles.
Saturday not much happened, we
talked to a few Chinese students who seemed interested. We also had another
lesson with Kxxx, wow, she's so solid. She asked us how much baptism cost,
and when we told her it was completely free, she seemed so relieved but she
said she was ready to drop like £1000 on it no big deal, that goes to show how
solid she is.
Sunday was my first real fast
Sunday of the mission, fasting can be hard because I get headaches when I'm
dehydrated so it was hard towards the end, but I felt a lot of peace from it.
Testimony meeting was the strongest spirit I've felt so far on the mission, I
loved it so much. Kxxx and Axxxa both came to church and everyone there
loves them, they are pretty much part of the ward already. It was a good day,
but man I was exhausted after. Oh and the Flippin gospel principles teacher asked
us Saturday night what we wanted him to teach the next day, he said she would.
And then that homie didn't show up, so I totally had to wing a lesson but it
went well, next time I'll make elder Mthethwa do it haha
Spiritual thought of the week:
in conference last week, Elder J Devin Cornish said the most powerful and
inspiring thing I have ever heard in my entire life, he said "I witness to
you that if you will really try and will not rationalize or rebel--repenting
often and pleading for the grace, or help, of Christ--you positively are going
to be “good enough,” that is, acceptable before the Lord; you are going to make
it to the celestial kingdom, being perfect in Christ; and you are going to
receive the blessings and glory and joy that God desires for each". Wow,
wow, wow. Elder Cornish has a way with words, you'll know what I mean if you
listened or watched that talk, he is so uplifting. We have a promise that if we
try and repent, that we will make it to the celestial kingdom because of Christ's
grace. He said it the most straight forward I've heard it. We all have things
we've had to repent of before, but even after repenting, we may sometimes still
feel as if we will never be able to obtain the celestial kingdom, but through
christs grace, we CAN! This is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ!
This is the best thing on earth! If you have repented of something, but are
still struggling to forgive yourself, keep following Christ, I promise you the
relief you seek will come, I know that for me, forgiving myself takes time, and
that's because repentance is not an easy thing, it takes time, the consequences
of mistakes can last a life time, elder Cornish said that too, but he said that
as we repent we will positively be good enough!
This week has been great, my
confidence has risen so much it's crazy, I feel confident to walk up to
absolutely anyone and it's sweet. Life is good and it keeps getting better.
Pleas please continue sending words of encouragement, there are hard times, and
I do love to read the emails, so if you are emailing me, keep it up, if you
haven't, try if you can haha. Now the reason I call this email Sunny with a
Chance, no not the old Disney channel show(but gold star for you if you
remember that), it's because Swansea is supposed to be one of the wettest
cities in the U.K., but it has been SO sunny this week, it's been quite great.
No rain at all for the last 8 days!!
Have a blessed week! Love you
all! zàijiàn!!!!!
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