Hey everyone!
What is on the up and up!
Hope you guys have had a great week! Thanks for tuning in again! This last week
has been a good one but boy have I felt sick at some points, just with nausea.
So I think I've pin pointed it all down to me having a dairy allergy so I'm
currently trying to cut out dairy and that seems to help, I just need to give
it a few weeks. I went to Asda to get some dairy free cookies which also don't
have gluten, so the cookies are dairy free, gluten free, egg free, wheat free,
and they are also free of happiness...hahaha. Just kidding it's not actually
that bad, it tastes pretty good. And sister wadsworth brought me some dairy
free brownies today so that's cool.
I had a pretty cool tender mercy on Saturday. So we were on
exchange with the zone leaders and it all went pretty well, but I was feeling
pretty sick, and at the end of the day I got off the phone to one of the other
missionaries in my district and I saw a text, well it was from the referral
centre in Missouri and it said it was from a sister draper. Well we kept
texting about the referral and at the end she asks "are you the elder
varner from California" and then it hit me that she is Rachel Draper, like
the one from back home. So that was pretty cool to get a text from someone I
knew from back home. There were also multiple times where I felt a bit low and
in those moments I saw rainbows, and I really felt like Tavi Cook was right
there with me helping me push on.
We had a Book of Mormon fireside yesterday after church which
went pretty well, we made a mega Book of Mormon for it (picture attached
below). It really is the keystone of our religion! Our teaching pool is
actually pretty solid now, no new news for them for the last week though. We
visited the Gxxould family again and we shared 1 Nephi 1:20 with them and I
really felt God speaking through me, and there were some things I said that I
don't think I've ever said in a visit, but I felt led by the spirit.
Only funny thing for the week was we locked up our bikes to a
pole and when elder Mason went to unlock it the key snapped, so we spent the
next hour trying to figure out how we were gonna get this lock off cuz we were
kinda in a sketchier part of the area. Well after loads of time we finally got
some tweezers and got out the key, used the spare key and somehow unlocked it.
This week I studied out of chapter 4 in the ARP Manuel, what a
great chapter! It was all about truth and being honest with yourself and the
lord, one way we can do that is through keeping a journal. It said "When
you prayerfully write about your life, you give the Holy Ghost an opportunity
to help you see and understand the potential lessons that come from each of
your experiences." I can personally attest to this, when we write about
our experiences the Holy Ghost can teach us lessons. I've had so many of those
kinds of experiences out here! So go keep a journal and be honest when you
write in it. When you aren't being honest the only one you are hurting is
yourself. When we are honest, that's when god can really help us to improve and
overcome!
Oh I almost forgot! I'm staying here for the upcoming transfer
and will be getting Elder Yim from Hong Kong! Elder Miner trained him so I'm
hyped! It's gonna be a blast out here! Elder Mason is going to Leicester. Best
of luck to my brotha Adam who is headed out to the Phillies this week! Enjoy it
man! Love you all!
Elder Varner
pic 1: DA at
the winters
pics 2-3:
district meeting
pic 4: giant
BOM
pic 5: fam,
youll never believe it, i bought (on my own will) a...salad on exchanges
pic 6:
birthplace of the author of charlie and the chocolate factory
pic 7: cool view
video 1: america!
video 2: DA at the maizeys, elder mason was acting as samuel
the lamanite
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