what’s up everyone! i hope you had a good week! this week we got shut down! it was crazy! we took L’s left and right. for the most part, people really weren’t down to talk and I just felt so sick the entire week. definitely one of the harder weeks of my mission but enough of me feeling sorry for myself. we did see some very tender, tender mercies this week #blessed
we got to watch the press conference and announcement of the new first presidency. how great is it that the lord leads his church today? coolest thing ever! we had interviews on Thursday with president and sister Leppard and P-Leppard dropped some wisdom-he is one of the best individuals I’ve ever met!
we spent a lot of time talking to people in town, and while many people were just turning us down, we did talk to a homie from london who is super cool, he was only here in Leicester for a day but he used to meet with missionaries and he asked a few questions about some things missionaries had previously taught him-he was super open to seeing missionaries again, and we sent him on his way with a new book of mormon. we also ran into a few formers and potentials we’ve been trying to contact which are mini miracles. one of our homies named fxxazzie (fuh-zee) came to church yesterday, all 3 hours and he loved it-he said he wants to be a missionary one day like us, such a cool guy, he recently converted to Christianity and the man loves Jesus! we will see him again this week!
today we just hung out in the city, got some Burger King and went to this cool museum that had a really emotional tribute to Ann Frank, it’s been a pretty swell day
i found my new favourite chapter in the Book of Mormon. ether 12 is such a good read. everything about it. it talks of the importance of faith, how we we gain a witness after the trial of our faith, how faith brings to pass miracles, and how god can make our weaknesses become strengths. there are so many gems in that chapter-read it!
one of my all time favourite scriptures is 1 Nephi 1:20. in this part, nephi and his family were facing severe persecution and people even wanted to kill them. despite all this adversity, nephi still managed to look at the good side of things, he said “But behold I nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the lord are over all those whom he hath chosen because of their faith to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance”. im not perfect at it, but I try to look out for the lord’s hand in my life. over all the hard times of my life including this last week, the tender mercies of a loving Heavenly Father have lifted me over my challenges. i don’t suspect that things will get much easier any time soon, but I trust that the lord will continue to carry me.
i love you all. go have a lit week. ill try to do the same. look unto Christ in every thought, doubt not, fear not 
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Elder Varner
also here’s a thought to reflect on for the week:
-an agnostic, dislexic, insomniac lies awake at night wondering if there’s a dog
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