HEY FAMILY!!!!

This week was pretty good. We struggled being able to find people in their houses, but we foucused a lot on contacting. We found some great people this week. One, his name is Arturo. He is about 45 years old, and is very humble. he has a great personality. He is really quiet, but soaks in all of the stuff we teach him. He went to church yesterday!!! And we thought he would probably only stay for an hour. but he stayed all 3 hours, and LOVED IT!!! He asked for a gospel doctorine book and they gave one to him, because he wanted to read more!! It was sweet!!

On christmas eve we were out contacting in the rain. well i looked over on the other side of the street corner, there was a teenager standing there but i couldnt see very well, because my vision at night is not very good. But i felt the impression to go over and contact him. I am not a fan at all of contacting teenagers. And not at all to contact the teenage men, boys.. because almost all of them are really bratty, and disrespective. But i told my comp i was going to cross the street to contact him, so i went over, as i got closer i almost bailed because he had earings, and his hair all weird but i went up and talked to him. WOW it was awesome, i started to talk to him, and he told me that he had always wanted to contact missionaries like us, but was always scared to do it. He said he would love if we passed by, but that he gets home from work at 9. So we passed by on Friday night. and he let us in. He said his parents wouldnt be to happy so we had the lesson in his room. He had a lot of questions for us, which we were able to answer, and he liked it a lot. We are going over tommorrow night. We will see how that all goes. He is 18, his name is Daniel. That was a really cool experience for me that i was able to follow the promptings of the spirit and act on it, although it was pretty uncofortable for me. But i am getting better and better at it. I know i have to follow them, so that God knows that he can trust,and give more promptings to Elder Allison. If we dont do anything with the promptings he gives us, he probably wont keep giving them to us... its pretty simple, but its hard at the same time. :)

Sunday, our church starts at 10. Well at 10:10 the second councilor when he found out that the people that were going to give talks werent there, asked me and sister rose to give talks...   its becoming a second instict for me ;) not really, but it wasnt too big of a deal. It all went well, i love the experiences that i am able to have everyday here, it is awesome!!! Other than that all went really well this week. I was actually able to get to bed early a few days in this week, and feel really good about that. Today we are going to go and play soccer with some members. I am happy. I love you guys so much. Thanks for your love, and suppport!!!

Elder Allison

Elder Jackman 12/29/2014

Dear Family,

Well it was an amazing week in London - a great Christmas! My most memorable one by far! This week flew by yet again. Time is speeding up I swear!! Lots of meetings from Zone P-Days (Minute to Win it!) temple trips, tons of Christmas meals and visits, Skyping!, baptisms, and fufu.

The greatest thing was going through the London Temple with Lewis Mancer, my convert in Brighton, to recieve his endowment! That was a truly remarkable moment! It was such a great opportunity - to be dressed in white with him, and my trainer, Elder Stephan in the temple. Such a wonderful blessing! He is happy and well. We went to dinner after too and had a good time again after like the old times in B-Town!!

Skyping was truly such a blessing. So nice to see you all!! You all have truly grown up - I was blown away at how much you changed (appearances, and goodness) At first, after ending the call, it really made me miss home... But I got over it and decided to work even harder for my family. D&C 31 was a very comforting scripture.

Christmas was crazy!! The weather is mega cold now in England - one of the coldest winters in London on record!

 

For dinner and lunch, we had African food - Jeloff rice, agusi soup, casava fufu, and cow stomach and throat. They had mercy on us and also cooked us some turkey haha. My stomach still is recooperating - on Saturday we went to a Nigerian members home and he taught us how to make Fufu - you have to stir it in a huge pot with a huge wooden stick and its like a wrestling match!! Hard stuff! Also, extrememly spicy with ocra soup!!!!!

The Wandsworth Zone is doing great!! Our missionaries are doing well - a big tansfer, so there are a lot of moves. I am staying in Peckham with the same companion, who I love! That'll make 3 transfers together, and 6 months in London! And many more months to come!

On Christmas we wrapped up Book of Mormons and gave them out to people on the streets as presents along with a 'He is the Gift' card! You should have seen people's faces just light up! The people were a lot more open to the gospel message!

I am loving my mission - every day and every second! Thank you all SO much for all the gifts/money. It is well appreciated. I love you all so so much and miss you dearly. Have a great and HAPPY week!! Remember, our purpose in life, is to have JOY, no matter the circumstances!

Love,

Elder Jackman 

Hey family!!

This week was great! We have been focusing again on finding new investigatores, and it was really nice. We found a lot of new people. We have the goal of finding 2 new investigators every day. Well we ended up finding 14 news this week. But we werent constant on the 2 every day. One day we found 6, that was neat, we found a family. We talked with them out side of their house, and smoothly asked if we could see some of the products they sell, he is a carpenter. And has his products in his house. we entered in and after looking at the stuff he makes, we had a little lesson and then showed them the "he is the gift" and "Thanks to him" videos which are super powerfull!! It turns out that about 4 years ago they had heard a little bit about the missionaries. Another cool new investigator we found this week was through a member. There is a 35ish lady that was about to committ suicide. She was in her 3rd story window about to jump, when all the neighbors tried talking her out of it, and it worked. One of her neighbors is a sister in our ward, and she said that it would be nice if the missionaries could talked with her, so we went over and had a solid lesson. She said that she really wants hope in her life, because she doesnt have any. Her situation is really tough!!! Her husband is a SUPER alcholic! He drinks every single day, and a LOT!! He cant hold a steady job, for how much he drinks, and he is abusive. When he leaves the house he doesnt leave her with keys, and tells her that she cant go anywhere. And when she runs an errand and takes longer than he thinks she should he yells at her. Well like i said she isnt married which techniqully means she wont be getting baptized anytime soon, because we dont want her marrying him. But that doesnt really matter to us if she cant get baptized or not at this point we just want to help her out, and we know that by teaching her and building her self esteem that can really help her. Who knows maybe one day down the road she can get away from him and get baptized. But she is really enjoying our visists so that is pretty much all that matters.

This week we did a TON of service. tuesday wednesday, friday and saturday we did service projects the whole morning until the afternoon for different people. like 6 or 7 hours each one. A lot of painting houses, and people moving houses. Then we hit it hard in the afternoon contacting and teaching. 3 nights in the week i fell asleep on the couch in my missionary clothes. And last night I fell asleep sitting on the ground against the wall in my suit. jaja I am dying of sleep, but I am going to go play soccer today in a few hours :)))))))))) 

I love you all so so much!!

Elder Allison

fotos... my comp and i, zone activity, and a teenager that is headed to peru today on his mission. (I tried talking him into giving me his sweater but he said he couldn't that it was from his GF :( 

Elder Jackman

Elder Hunter Jackman is serving in the England London South Mission. He is in Peckham currently.

Dear Family,

There's nothing sweeter than slowly walking into a baptismal font, dressed in white, and standing in the water... waiting for a young man you had been preparing for this special day finally come stepping down slowly into the waters of baptism and standing there with him. Yesterday was amazing. We finally were able to baptise Ethan, our young 'Tough-nut' investigator, who now knows that this is the true Church. I was able to baptise him yesterday and the service went perfectly. We had been teaching him since September, and he had been taught by missionaries since January, when his mum was baptised, but never wanted any part of it. But Ethan is a smart chap and knew the points of the gospel well. We taught him with his mum, a recent convert, who helped us out a lot. We used a lot of presentations/skits to help demonstrate lessons. It took quite a lot of creativity!! Things like boiling an egg and not the other one and him 'Choosing the Right' one and quickly choosing and smashing it on his head! We are so dang good! Haha. His anti-mormon father and his non member family came to his special day as well!! Prayer have been answered!

Well my life is so busy right now. I've never worked harder! We are running all over London right now!! Actually, the other day, me and Elder Hernandez took a wrong bus and headed into the other mission on the other side of the river Thames! We did 2 'mini' Zone Trainings for our districts; Peckham, Crystal Palace, Clapham, and Kennington districts - 24 missionaries to teach and train and support them in their work! A lot of computer work too - prepping for the training's and also, THE DREADED STAKE CORRELATION!!! You have no idea how stressful stake correlation is for us! We have to gather ALL the zone/stake info of all converts, all statistics, baptismal dates (which we do already), and a ton of other info and then present it to the whole Wandsworth Stake Presidency and the mission president and his wife and other people. I must say it is training me for future callings. What work!! I have been drained physically this week.

As far as emotionally - I had a powerful experience with using the Atonement that built me up so much and helped me become a better man. I guess all of the hard work of missionary work finally built up too much and I just felt so down on myself and just everything one night. There's always a down-time in missionary work for every missionary, and I felt it this week hard one night. I did pray so sincerely and all I will say, is that I do know the Saviour lives and that He is very near. Nearer than we think. That night I felt the love of my Saviour so strong, I cannot ever deny Him or the truthfulness of this message. 

We have been teaching so many great people. Mostly all our baptismal dates! They are all progressing so well; Nicodemus (getting baptised on the 13th), Isata, and Tenna and her boyfriend Jack! We are killing it here in Peckham and in the whole Wandsworth Zone! President loves us haha. All of our dates came to Church yesterday too!! Even Tenna's hesitant boyfriend Jack came and loved it!! And Ethan got baptised and Russell did the last week!! So, things are going amazingly well and we know that it's all the Lord's hand.

Crazy experience of the week: Went contacting in Burgess Park one morning and saw a man sitting on a bench. Me and my companion said to each other; 'Which life question do you think he is pondering right now??' We approached him and he turned around and told us he hated us. He was from Jamaica and had LONG dreadlocks that went down to the floor. He told us we were absolute fools and mocked us hard. He got up and came at us angrily, but me and Elder Blackner stood our ground and rebuked him and stood up for our beliefs and he got more and more mad and was cursing us and showing us science books. And then he continued on and told us how since we were white people we came from black people and were their slaves before and we lived in caves as white creatures. He hated us because of our skin colour. He told us many other racist things, but we stood up for Christ, whom he did not believe in. And told him that God loved him. You had to be there really in the park, but it was wild!!! Tons of things like this happen in Peckham! 

I love my mission and for the opportunity it has given me and learn and grow and to wash myslef clean in the blood of the Holy One of Israel. I am excited for this Christmas to see you all :)

All my love,

Elder Jackman

Hey Family!!

This week was good. I am doing well with my companion. We are focusing a lot on finding new investigators. I had a mini heart attack this week because I have been worrying so much in the people we are teaching. Here during this time of year, a lot of people are open to listen about Christ. But also almost everyone is just "too busy" to listen, accept us to come by, to pray, to read, its kinda frustrating me a lot!! But we are working to find new people. Satan has also been working very hard with the recent converts in this ward. and with some of the investigatores that have been progressing, both of the sisters, and ours. We have a big war we are going up against, which means we have to step it up even more. I am doing all I possibly can to be the best missionary I can be, and to give everything I have. I am gaining stronger testimonies of faith each and every day. 

Also we have been focusing a lot on helping out each member of the zone. President is always teaching us that we should never let behind the weaker missionaries. It is very true. We are trying to help them, by going on visits with their investigators, contacting in their areas, fasting for them, and anything that we can think of. But that means a little less time that we can spend here in our area, but its okay. This type of stuff, staying very busy is helping out my companion a lot, to have more desires to work hard, and i am very thankfull for that!! I have been praying for a lot of help, so that we can find people that are truly ready to hear the gospel. Because president is stressing us a lot that we have to be putting the example for the zone, and we HAVE to start baptizing each week. I feel a big load, but I know that if we can be obedient, and diligent the Lord will help us. 

Angeles who got baptized about 2 weeks ago, has been going through a lot of trials. Her sister stopped talking to her, because she got baptized, she hasnt been able to get work off, and so yesterday, after 2 WEEKS she got confirmed the Holy Ghost. But thank heavens she was able to come, because she came straight from a full night shift. But she said that she has really wanted to come, but her boss hasnt let her get off. But that she is going to try and talk to him, so that she can rest saturday in the nights, to come to church not so tired. 

We got a christmas tree in the house, and santa hats, and lights and orniments for the tree. It is pretty fun!! . 

I had a few different experiences this week giving priesthood blessings. I really love and am thankfull for the priesthood, and the ability to use it. I was blessed to be able to give a blessing to a 1 and a half year old girl yesterday after the church services, that is sick and not able to use her legs. I felt a little part of the love that God has for her. Especially being a little child, innocent. Before the blessing i asked the mom what the little girls name was and as i approached the little girl she grabbed my finger, and held it tight, I sat there for about 30 seconds with her holding onto my finger with her tiny hand and I just felt so much love.

I am learning a lot. And I am happy, I can't not be, I am a missionary!! :) Thanks for all your support. I really love you all so very much!!!!!!!!! Have a wonderful week!!! 

I Love you!!!

Elder Allison  

Hey Family,

There were quite a bit of cool-strange things that happened this week. I had litterally 25 or more comments on the new hair cut... A drunk guy hugged me late at night in the street... we ate pumpkin pie and cheese cake :))))... We got into the CCM again... I had to give a talk in stake confrence... and much more fun adventures. 

This week we focused a lot on gaining our personal testimonies of Joseph smith again. It was great. I read and really analized the whole joseph smith history. I love it so much, I truly have been learning so much, and strengthening my testimony a lot!!! I am so thankful for him!! And for the great sacrafice he made for us, to be able to have this church. 

We got into the CCM again. It was so great!! We had to take the keys to the stake president again. It is so amazing inside!!! There is a big difference once you walk in the gates, and when you leave to go back to the street!!! It is so beautiful also! Oh and guess who I saw when we were in the CCM?? My companion Elder Nogueda, the one who really trained me!! It was awesome! He finished about 3 months ago so that was cool to see him in there, he was there for his test, to see if he can get a job working there or not. 

The hair cut... wow, jajaja super funny stuff!! President when he saw me was making fun of me even. Saying that he would make sure to never go to that same hair cut store. I even said a prayer during the week that my hair could grow back a little faster, and it has a tiny bit, but is still pretty short on the sides.

The event of the week was during stake confrence. So apparently President Hall was going to give a talk in the stake confrence no.. Well about 3 min. before the confrence starts the 1st councilor in the stake presidency comes over to me and my comp. And said "President Hall was going to give a talk in the confrence, but he isnt here, if he doesnt make it, Elder Allison could you give a talk on missionary work about 5 or 10 min.." I immediatly started praying that President Hall would come. I said yes, and then we went out and called President. He didnt answer, so i franticly started to prepare for what I would say, and continued praying that president would come... well that prayer wasnt answered. I had a brief outline of what to say, but didnt have much time to really memorize the order in how I would say it, but i decided to trust that all would be well. I was really nervous. For one, speaking in stake confrence is extra sketchy, second not having any time to prepare, and third in spainsh. Crap... But I got up there, and started to talk, thankfully it is a topic I am passionate about, and I could talk from the heart. Unlike almost all of my talks I gave in english I actually had my head up about 90 percent of the time (maybe its because i didnt have time to write anything...) I truly felt the spirit guide me as to what to say. It was amazing, and i consider it a miracle for me. Also my spanish was really good, I know that the Holy Ghost helped me out a lot. I ended up saying just about everything I had planned to say, and a few other things that came to my mind during the talk. I know that I am developing some good attrabutes and I know one of them is talking infront of people. I had a lot of help from Heavenly Father, there is no doubt in my mind about that. When I got done, and got back to my seat, I felt a big releif, and was very thankful! All in all it was a good experience for me, but I think 1 is all that I want or need :)

This week we had a lot of spiritual experiences teaching about Joseph Smith. And it was great, we helped a lot of investigatores gain a testimony of him. 

On Sunday we went to the temple visitors center with The Rocha family. Dolores, her 3 kids, and her husband mario. It was very nice, especially because her husband came, and he is progressing. slowly progressing, but progressing.

Angeles, hasnt been able to assist the past two sundays :( she gets done working a long night shift at 5 or 7 in the morning sunday, and the tiredness has beaten her.. We are going to see what happens with her this week, but we are continuing to help her out, and she is just about ready for baptism. 

 I am so thankful for your support!! I love you all so much!!! Have the best week ever!!!

Love Elder Allison. 

Hey Family.

This was a really solid week. Starting everything off, was tuesday. My comp. and I taught the zone because it was first tuesday of the month, and we taught about the good samaritan :) I learned just how much I love that parabol!! It is quite great, and teachs a great lesson. After Tuesday I decided to memorize the parabol, and I am close to concoring it :) After leaving from the zone confrence we had to give the keys to the stake center back to the stake president. Well he works in the CCM!! So we went over to the entrance of the CCM, which is like 3 min. walking from the stake center, figuring that the high tech security guards wouldnt let us in, that we would have to call him, or leave the keys there. Well what do you know. One of the coolest blessings in our lives. The security guard let us in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He gave us visiting passes to wear around our necks. I felt like a rockstar!!!! It was so awesome. It is like a different world in there. It is HUGE!!! We had to find him, so me and my comp decided to "look really hard for him......" as we walked around "looking" for him, well yeah after about 15 min. of taking it all in and taking pictures of everything we finally headed over to the building he works in, and gave him the keys. There were a lot of missionaries walking around, and a few that looked at us like we were rockstars. It was pretty awesome!!!! We were very happy, I always wanted to go into the CCM, it was a dream of mine, and now that I have been just accross the street, I have had the desire even more. It was a true wish come true. Also it was my companions birthday on Tuesday I bought a mexican flag, and secretly had all the missionaries in the zone sign it, then we gave it to him at the end of the meeting, with cake, he was happy :) He only has two weeks left, and I am trying to help him be excited to keep working hard, until his last day.

On friday we had thee longest meeting of all time. it was from 9 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon. with a 45 min. lunch break. President made a lot of different changes in the mission. The best one, is that we are going to have 1 hour during every week to go to the church and use the computer to send emails to recent converts, less actives, investigators and members of wards that we have been in, to excite them, and to help them to stay active!!! That is way cool I think!!! 

I started a thankful journal. I got a tiny little booklet, and I am writting down every little thing that I am thankful for throught the day, It is really fun. I love it I feel more thankful always. Also about 3 weeks ago I finished my first journal, and am now on my second one. Sometimes it is very hard to write late at night, but I know that it will be good in the long run, and that future generations better like it!!! :) 

I got my hair...cut.... or chopped.... which ever one you want to say.... It looksreally funny. The guy cut it really short on the sides and in the back, and then it looks a tiny bit like a fluff ball on top.... thank heavens hair can grow back right??? To be completly honest it doesnt bother me. Its funny to laugh about.

On thursday, or friday not sure which, I had a cool experience. I wanted to reconfirm my testimony about joseph smith, so when we got home at night I started to read the joseph smith story in the scriptures, and after I read I got down on my knees and prayed then sat up and pondered. Well it felt like i was there for a while waiting for the answer, so i got back down on my knees and said another prayer I got back up and thought, then I felt a wonderful feeling, that I cant describe it was amazing, and I was very thankful for it. I have learned that even though we know something is true, it doesnt mean that we cant and shouldnt keep praying for a confirmation of that testimony. It is very important that we have a lot of spiritual experiences, because the hard days will come, and if we can lean on the spiritual experiences we will be able to remember, and know that this is the right path, and we can get through the tough times without falling away, which happens to so many people!!

Also I am learning a lot about Love, and service. These are the 2 bases that we should have as people and as members of the church. It is what Christ taught us, He has unconditional love for everyone. and he always served everyone. I am thankful for this opportunity to serve. I am learning lots, and I am learning each day to love more and more!!! :)

We went to the Lady that called us over in the street. wow. her little kids are crazy, it was very hard to teach because they have SOOOOOOOOO much energy. So we had to have other gameplans. We taught really simply, and we are going to teach with pictures next time. There son has 15 years, and he is really cool, he went to mutual on friday night and liked it a lot!!! We are going to see if he can come and do visits with us to get him excited about missionary work, because on sunday he brought his friend, and had an interview with the bishop, it was his first time going to church since he got baptized at 8 years old.

Also Dolores and her family including her husband came to church, and they stayed for the second hour. That was the first time it has happened with him. We got a lot of help from their son, that ran to his primary class as soon as sacrament ended, but what ever works right?? :)

I sent you guys a letter in the mail today, so hopefully it gets there soon. I love you guys so much. And am always so thankful for you, and your love. I hope you have a great week!!!!!

Love Elder Allison

Elder Allison

Familia,

What a week!!! wowzers. the highlight of the week was for sure having Elder Clarke from the 70 here. I learned so much!!! And I know that i will be a much better missionary from the things that I learned!! He taught so much by the spirit, and I felt like everything he said I needed to hear so much, he is so inspired, it was the best!!!! 

Something that i really liked is when he was talking about how we need to find people to teach that "want to", and "Can" there is a lot of times here that we are teaching people that want to get baptized but for a specific reason (not married, husband wont let them, parents wont let them, work on sundays) they cant get baptized. and there are other times when they can get baptized but they are life long investigatores and just dont want to. He explained that there are too many missionaries that waste their time with these type of people. We need to start finding, and focusing on people that want to, and can. that was an interesting point, that we have been thinking about a lot!

This week we made a lot of progress with Angeles!!! She is so awesome!!! She came to church again this sunday and is way ready to get baptized, she just needs one more assistance. She invited a friend to church, that is in other ward boundries, and the friend liked church a lot also. She is great!!!!

Yesterday something pretty funny happened. So we were just walking in our neighborhood, with all the apartment buildings, and we turned one way, well from about 50 feet away across the street a lady yelled to us to come over, so we turned around and walked over to her. On our way over, I said to my comp, joking around "this lady is going to ask us how she can get baptized, my comp said, no she is going to ask us if we teach english classes." We cross the street to talk with the lady and her two little girls. and the first thing the lady says. "at what age do you get bapitzed in your church?" Us.  "when you turn 8 years old, why?" her." because my two twin daughters are going to turn 8 on November 15th." we talked with her for a little bit, apparently a long long long time ago she got baptized, but completly fell away from the church, and she told us that she wants her kids to live a different life than she has, and that she also has a 15 year old son, that she said only got baptized and never went to church, but that she wants us to come by and teach the family so that the kids can go to church and live a better life. That was pretty cool. We are really excited to go to their house this week and see, how we can help them out!! It was a cool experience!!! The lord is blessing us a lot, which is really neat to see!!

HALLOWEEN, here they celebrate dia de los muertos, and on the 1st of november there were SO many people dressed up, every one dresses up of terror people, and dead people, and witches, and scary stuff, I honestly missed a lot, super heros, and other fun less freaky stuff. That was one thing i miss about Utah. I was very tempted to take my "nerd" costum to the street, but i thought twice, remembering I am a missionary;) 

Saturday the sisters baptized Ester, it was really cool! She cant walk and cant move her legs or she is in a ton of pain, but is in a wheelchair. Me and my compainon along with the ward mission leader all helped her get baptized, my comp held her legs, our ward mission leader her body, and me, her shoulders, arms, and head. It only took 2 times to get it right and it was a very cool experience!! The ward mission leader and I pretty much had to carry her in and out of the fount which was not very easy, but all in all a very good experience. Ester has a daughter that is 11 and she didnt want to get baptized, she said that she is not ready, but after the baptism, and the special musical number that we sang (a different one....if you were wondering yes, go ahead and sign me up now for the voice, 2016.) it was very spiritual the whole service, the sisters put a baptismal date for this coming saturday and she said yes, so far so good, hopefully it will work out!!

Me and My comp carved our pumpkins and put them in our second story window, varios members of the ward really liked it and thought it was a clever idea. My comp really liked it!!! He only has 3 weeks left, 

I am a very happy camper, I got a package today, from the releif society!!! They were so awesome and very thoughtful, I thought it was a genius idea what the RS did, please thank them from my part, and i hope to be able to send off a letter soon. Lately its been almost impossible for me to find extra time, i really want to write to different people, to help them out, or show them my love, but i dont have time for anything almost. Even pdays arent really free, having to go to the offices, and what not each monday for the meetings. But i will try my very best. Just know I love EVERYONE SO MUCH!!!!!!! :) :) 

Thanks for all you do. Your the bestest!!!

Love Elder Allison

p.s. forgot to write. So on tuesday in the night Elder Clarke talked with all the stakes in the mission. So i got to see Cristian and his family, and also some people from my first ward. Cristian is thinking a lot about going on a mission. And his mom, told me that she is going to get baptized, she just wants to know a little more, also an investigator that me and my second compainon in my first ward taught is going to get baptized!!!!!! :) good stuff!!

Živjo!

They split the Ljubljana branch, and now we have a branch in Kranj!!! We had an amazing district conference yesterday, and they organized the new branch. I'm so excited! Sadly the building isn't quite ready yet and they won't actually be having sacrament meetings in Kranj until December, but we'll be having sacrament meeting separate from the Ljubljana branch. This is the first branch in Slovenija that they've created by splitting an existing branch, so it's a pretty historical step and a sign that the church is growing here.

I could just end there, since that was definitely the highlight of my week, but I guess I'll write a little more :)

We had a good lesson on Monday with Dušan and his wife (a guy we found a few weeks ago). He sometimes seems reserved and like he's not sure what to think about all this, but it's clear he feels the Spirit and he wants to feel that more. His wife isn't as crazy about it, since she thinks we believe the same things she already does, but she was a huge help with prayer. We asked Dušan to pray, and when he said he didn't know how because he had never done it, she told him,"It's easy! You just say what you're grateful for and anything else that's in your heart!" It was awesome.

We had another funny finding story this week, too. We were looking up a potential and (as often happens in Slovenija) getting confused because the numbers on the street don't line up like you think they should. As we were looking, we passed a blok that had its doors wide open and felt like we should tract it. As usual, I wanted to go to the top, and pushed what I thought was a light. Turns out it was a doorbell. The lady who opened the door, though, was awesome! We talked to her about how the gospel has been restored to bless families. She had three young sons that she was just putting to bed, but she asked us to come back again.

I'm pretty sure that story is about the third time when we've either accidentally started at the bottom or felt like we should start there and had awesome miracles happen. That might be a sign that we should start doing it at the bottom. And, there seems to be a trend that the members tend to live at the top of bloks. Our theory is that that is due to the missionaries' tendency to start at the top. Maybe it's time to break that trend ;)

This week we also went to do visiting teaching with Ana, who is mostly recovered from breaking her hip (she can walk now, but uses a cane). We visited Marjana, a member in really bad health in the retirement home. I learned a lot from seeing Ana and Marjana. We were with one old woman who had her own health problems, who took the time and effort to visit someone who needed love and care more than she did. I think that the image of Ana gripping the bedridden Marjana's hand while smiling and talking to her is about the most vivid image of Christlike love I have ever seen.

Another random thought about district conference: the missionaries did a musical number and sang "Jesus Once of Humble Birth." It was a really cool experience for me, and was really powerful. I would encourage you all to read the words to that hymn and really think about them. They're really good!

I'm really grateful to be able to serve as a missionary! I know that Christ lives and that His restored gospel is the way to true happiness. He truly makes us more like His Father when we live the gospel. The church is true!

Love you all!

Sestra Jones

Brad's New Area - McCall Idaho

Hello!

So this week has been a great week! We got so much work done! We cover 3 areas Donnley, McCall and New Meadows! I love it and we have a truck! A 2013 Nissan Frontier! It's a nice truck, but I would never buy one. 

We already have someone that's getting baptized! All she needs to do is get us a prescription from her doctor saying it's ok, then we can baptize her, but she has medical conditions so we have to be really careful.  We are going to do it at a hot springs and 4 or 5 of us will have to baptize her at once! She can't bend backwards so we will lift her into the pool so she doesnt get hurt! It will be an interesting experience!

We are talking to this guy that hasn't read his Book of Mormon for 50 years and wants nothing to do with the church, but yet he likes when we come to visit him... so it's a little strange... but that's okay. We helped him split 10 cords of wood!

We are in such a cool area.  I love it! It is really, really smoky though so that sucks because lots of fires are surrounding McCall.

We are not sure what we are gonna do today there is only so much we can do... We are thinking about going and playing pool somewhere. so we will do that and go look at some shops and then probably walk around the lake. Not sure! But it makes me really want to go boating or surfing or just jump in the water! but I can't:( but I can in a year! :) 

Our house is sweet! We have a full kitchen, a 2 car garage, a living room, a laundry room, an office, a workout room and our bedroom! We each have our own bathrooms!! That's the best part!! We have the biggest house in the mission!! So it's sweet and it's nice and clean! Which makes it even better!!! 

It's really nice being surrounded by all the pine trees and all the mountains! I miss the mountains so much and now I get to live in them! I love it here!!

Well I gotta go get busy!! 

Love,

 Elder  Bradley Riley

                                                 Brad's new companion Elder Jolley

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Brad's weekly email July 22, 2014

Hello all:

Okay, well today I hit my 11 month mark!!! That's crazy insane!  I look back and think that flew by!~ but I look ahead and say well I got another long year! But its crazy that I am already at a year! (almost)

Well this past week was not a bad week. We did a lot of service this week. I painted ceilings almost every morning in that same house that we are remodeling! So my neck was really stiff yesterday!  

We met this guy on Friday. I don't think he is too interested but he's still a really fun guy. His name is Chief White Eagle. He is part indian so that kinda makes sense, but half of his house burnt down and so we were seeing if he needed any help.  He didn't want any but he did say that we could come over again and talk to him! He has tons of crazy war stories so he is really interesting to talk to!

We went and saw one of elder Hasenauers old recent converts and they are really struggling and are having a hard time but we had a great time seeing them.  I was able to share my testimony with them and to help them in a way that they will be able to see things from a different perspective. They are awesome people! We are actually going to go to Cascade with them next Monday and we will go fishing so that will be fun, but we are helping them build a shed and we will do that on Wednesday and that will be a good quality time to talk about important gospel topics and hopefully get them to see how important the gospel is in their lives.

On Friday we went to a rodeo with a family that is investigating the church and got to spend some good time with them. It was nice I think for them to see that we are there for them and there to build a relationship with them rather than seeing them as just another number.  They said that the missionaries in this area about 9 months ago just wanted them to get baptized and that's all that they would talk about with them and just basically didn't treat them very well, so I think things are headed in the right direction with them.   They should be moving along great within the next few weeks,  but I want to visit with them as much as possible because transfers are on August 4th. Not sure if I'll stay in this area since I have been here for three transfers, so we will see what happens!

Today (p-day) we are gonna go fishing again and we are going to go to Black Canyon and try and catch some trout! So that will be fun!

I am still trying to lose some weight, but it gets hard cause there is so much good food.  But its okay I am losing weight and I am feeling good!  I am going to keep it up so I can be more healthy and be able to feel a lot better!

Well that's it for this week sorry it's kinda short, but we will see what happens next week!

Love you guys!!

Elder Brad Riley

Brad's email 7-2-14

Okay so now that my busy day is over and we finally made it to the library to email, we have been really busy today.  We have been doing a lot of service and today we textured walls in an entire house my shoulders are really sore. Yesterday was a good day of fishing! We didn't really catch anything but we were able to spend some time with an investigator which is really good! We had some really good conversation and we were able to get to know him a lot better! We went to lake Lowell and fished from the dam. I only caught a little baby bass and then a tiny trout but it was still a fun day! I bought some fishing gear yesterday and ended up buying a new pole and reel... I didn't really need to do that but I don't want to worry about breaking or ruining someone else's pole and I will be doing a lot more fishing with our investigators.

We are going this Saturday with an investigator and we are going cat fishing and some salmon fishing so it should be fun we are going to Payette! So that should be fun!  It seems to really be working the fishing thing with investigators, mostly the guys.  It gives us two on one time with them and they can't leave. haha.

This past weekend we had a baptism and it went sooo good.  We were able to get some other investigators there and they said they felt something that they have never really felt.  It went really good. The musical number was really really good it sounded professional and the baptismal ordinance was good and the spirit was for sure felt. The talks were really nice too!

This week is supposed to be busy and now that I can wear closed toe shoes people are wanting us to move them and do a ton of work!! But it will be okay I like doing service it nice and gives me a chance to do some hard labor haha and help get those less active active again.  Well right now that's really about it!

love you guys!!

Elder Riley

Brad's email June 2, 2014

Hey all! 

So this week ended up being a pretty good week! We did a lot and got lots done! We got to do a lot with the non-members and have had a great time working with them, but my goal for the ward that I am in currently is to get to know all sects of the church and all quorums! So far its been great! 

I have got to know all the members really well! This past weekend we went to father and sons! (we didn't get to stay the night) but we played football with all the little kids and adults and it was a blast! We went to a place right up Black Canyon called Roystone hot springs! (we didn't get to get in the hot springs either) haha, but we had a great time! The next morning we went back up there so we could go on a mountain bike ride with the deacons! It was a 22 miler and it was awesome! The first 4 miles it climbed 2000 feet! It was war intense (Shawn-Prepare yourself for when I'm home), but luckily for me I have been in bike areas and my legs are in good shape! It was a great time and to be able to talk to the deacons and share with them my testimony with them and teach them a little lesson about enduring to the end! It was a good little ride and we got to know the deacons really well! 

This past Monday we got to take an investigator fishing and that turned out great! We were able to get to know him really well and this next week we will take him hiking, but it was a fun time! 

This week we picked up a new investigator and he is solid!! He knows so much already! We taught him at my ward mission leaders home and  the spirit was so strong. We asked him to be baptized and he accepted and he will be getting baptized on the 17th along with another investigator! The first one's name is Brandon and he is 18 and the second is 52 and he is a solid guy.  We just have to get him to stop smoking, so that will be a little tough! 

We have been doing lots of service work. Installing more sprinklers and mowing lawns and pulling weeds and fixing cars, laying down sod and lots more landscaping! It's been a lot of hard work, but at least we are making an impact in the ward and them seeing us working is a really good thing! The work is progressing so much and it is so nice to always be doing work all day! Right now we are working with a part member family and it has been going well and he seems to like our lessons. He has a son right now in Fiji and so we have been teaching him what his son is teaching other people! 

Well, thats about it this week! It's been a great week and we have had lots of success! 

Love you guys,

Elder Riley

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April 29 - Bradley Riley

Hello Everyone!

So this past weekend we had a baptism and it went great! There were so many people there it filled the chapel it was nuts! But it was a really nice baptism! His name is Braden Lenz and he is 12 years old and he will be the first one in his house to have the Priesthood, so that's way cool!

We got a lot done this week! We were able to teach a few new people and they seem like they are pretty interested! We found this one family and their last name is Riley! haha The parents are never home but we stand on the doorstep and talk to the kids! They are pretty interested! We gave three of their kids Books of Mormon and one of the girls really likes it! She took it to school with her and is reading it there! So I can't wait to get in there and talk to her family! We did meet their uncle! He is pagan so he believes in witchcraft and stuff like that! He was an interesting fellow!

We are currently teaching a little girl, she is 10 years old and she wants to know more. We have gone over just 2 of the lessons but she really likes it and wants to be baptized.  Her mom wants her to be baptized but in order for that to happen she has to attend church twice and she hasn't so that's tough and her Mom doesn't really enjoy church that much so its a struggle! But we will get her there so no worries!

Now we are trying to get this one investigator to stop smoking so he can be baptized but he's having a hard time quitting. He likes to smoke too much so that kinda suck but he comes to church every Sunday and he says that he really likes it! So he's gonna keep coming! I'm hoping someone will say something in a talk or lesson that stands out to him and he will then know how he can put away his bad smoking habit!

Well that's about it for this week! Thanks for all the support of my family and friends and the ward! 

Love - 

Elder Bradley Riley

Brad Riley April 14, 2014

Hi all!

This week went all right! We got another baptism date and we are excited about that! We had a couple lazy days this week where we didn't get much accomplished but we still taught 21 lessons this week and picked up a new investigator! So we were pretty stoked about that cause we found him while tracting and we are hoping that he will continue to let us in!

This past week we picked up another ward the 8th ward and so that will keep us really busy! Plus now we have 6+ hours of church each Sunday, but that's okay! It will keep us busy and on track! (mom insert:  Is this my son talking?!!)

We are excited to start riding bikes this week! It will save us miles and plus gives us a chance to see people doing yard work and we can help them! So that's good.

So I don't know if you know this at all, but as some of my friends and some of my family I am a 49ers fan and this week we were teaching a samoan family and while we were there this kids brother-in-law walked in the room and it was Mike Lupati. He is one of the top  guards in the NFL and he is less active but he wants to be more active and learn more so we taught him about Joseph Smith in a little more depth! But he is so cool and a lot bigger than me! haha

Well that's about it! Love ya!

-Elder Riley-

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Brad's latest April 7, 2014

Hello!!

Just got transferred and I am in a car area and we are trying to save miles so we are going to start riding our bikes, so that means I need to get it fixed! Our new address is 25612 Kingsbury Road, Middleton, ID 83644.

Okay this week has gone by so fast! We worked our butts off and I am so tired! Ae committed someone to baptism and he will be getting baptized on the19th of april! So we are pumped for that! My companion Elder Weston and I have made a goal of getting more baptisms this transfer so it gives us something to work for!

We are in a car area and it's nice to be in a car again haha but we live 2 miles outside of our area, so that's kind of a bummer! But the place where we live is pretty nice! We have a small kitchen and a small room and a shower that's about it! But where we live is nice! We have this pond in front of our house and there are hundreds of frogs in it so we get to hear that all night! haha

General conference was all right, but the best part of it was priesthood session! It was so good. I think that it was the best one that I have ever heard! I highly recommend watching it whether you have the priesthood or not! There we a lot of really important things said that really stuck out to me that would really help us in our missionary work!

There was something that was said in conference that I really liked! "Be persistent even in the face of discouragement". I have a huge testimony of this and how the Lord will bless you if you are persistent and another thing is to have courage. Courage is so important as members of the church! We need to be able to stand up for what we believe! I testify that this is the true church everyday and I have seen the blessing of it! So have the courage to stand up for what we believe!

I am so grateful to be serving here in Idaho and for the help I have received from Heavenly Father and being able to be tools in his hands! I have personally seen peoples lives change because of this gospel and I have seen families become closer and more united because of it! I know that this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ and am so proud to be apart of it!

Thank you to all that have been there for me and helped me get to where I am now!

I love you all!

Have a good week!

Love, Elder Bradley Riley

Catherine Aldous, March 2014

From Sister Catherine Aldous:

We found some amazing new investigators this week. K was walking
her dogs when we were walking back from unsuccessfully contacting a
referral. We "talked with everyone" and started a conversation with
her. Over the course the conversation, we learned that she has been
wondering to herself what her husband will be to her after this life.
It's hard for her to accept that he would just maybe be another spirit
to her and that their relationship would not continue after this life,
but that is what she's been taught her church. She said "I guess you
don't have an answer for that, but is something I'm thinking about."
Do we ever have an answer for that?!! We were so excited to share with
her the doctrine of eternal families. We will be taking her to a
lesson in our church building tomorrow morning. Moments like that make
me so happy to be a missionary. I realize the kind of traditional doctrines that
people have a hard time with that have great answers in the Restored Gospel.

We also started teaching in 18-year-old high school senior named J.
His girlfriend is a less-active member in Washington. He was excited
to take a Book of Mormon. We are also teaching a spunky old lady name
S. She pretty thoroughly understands what we teach, and she
really tries to understand. We will be giving her a chapel tour on
Wednesday. She even understands the apostasy, and called it a "cycle".

We were part of an incredible miracle this week. A few weeks ago, we
had an evening appointment with our stake president and his wife, who
are in our ward. They learned that I played the organ. He asked if I had
played in the 18th Street building. I said how much I loved it. The
man who built that organ is now extremely anti-church and Mormon. It's
really sad. His daughter and her family live with him and his wife.
His daughter is the Relief Society president. His wife is a faithful
temple attender and a lovely member. But his daughter can't even feed
the missionaries in his home, because he gets so upset about it. I
don't know what happened, but it's a really sensitive situation. He's
definitely a "do not contact."

Pres. Barnes how did the idea that I could approach him as a musician rather than as a missionary. I
mentioned it to his wife and she asked him. We were shocked at what
resulted. I had envisioned simply going to their home for maybe fifteen
minutes and asking him about his experience with the organ. Completely
unexpectedly, he agreed to come to the church building and actually
show me the organ. He has not been in that church for possibly
decades. But in addition, they invited us to come to dinner with
them. This is the man who less than a month ago was sneering his daughter
for feeding the missionaries. On Friday night, we met them at the
church building and he spent almost an hour showing me pipes, the back
door and repair areas, and so much about the organ.  Then, almost two
hours taking us to dinner and giving us another appointment. It was
an incredible miracle.

T was baptized on February 9. He loves the Church and feels that God has led him here He loves having "technical" discussions with us, not to bash but because he loves to understand. For example, he wondered why we don't use wine and unleavened bread in the sacrament, and was completely satisfied by the answer in Doctrine & Covenants 27. He said, "There it is in black and white."

An excerpt from Catherine's journal:
"Experience is the prize of mortal life, the gift of God, the result of agency. Through it I learn the good from the evil. This life of experience is only a good thing because Jesus Christ is the Savior. Without Him, agency and experience would be condemning in their consequences.

"From Hymn 195:
'How great, how glorious, how complete
Redemption's grand design,
Where justice, love, and mercy meet
In harmony divine!'

"I don't think I have felt this grateful to my Heavenly Father before. I love Him! And I love my earthly parents for their role in bringing to pass my immortality and eternal life. A mission would be totally worth it, if only to have this moment of perspective, understanding, and gratitude."

Elder Jansen Hall - March 31, 2014

Hey Yall!

This week was another normal week here in New Albany. The weather is still hot and cold. And there is nothing to much different then the news we got about transfers. Transfers are on Wednesday, Me and Elder Black will both be staying. O there is something else that will be different. Ill see if yall can pick up on it;)

But this week like I said has been another normal week. We contact in the stores...... Well really only Walmart. We tried to contact in some of the other stores like piggly wiggly, dollar general, save a lot and their was a total of about 5-10 people combined in all the stores. I couldnt believe it. We have tried going to the park, maybe 1-5 people there. haha i dont know where everyone is hiding. We would tract but this place has been tracted out about 12 different times haha but we are hanging in there and trying to find those that need and want the gospel in there lives. We pretty much walked and biked all week which it was good to get out and be seen by everyone passing us on there cars. One thing thatll be good is that we are getting a set of spanish speaking sister missionaries. Thats good for 2 reasons. One is because there are a ton of hispanics in our area, 2 because there have been a lot of people that dont like Elders but said if we had girl missionaries they would listen to them.

One thing we have been focusing on really hard is trying to strengthen and build up a base for our branch so it can actually grow. We have been working hard with less actives, recent converts to strengthen and help them. We are trying to get the branch excited about missionary work so that they can have the courage to invite their friends. We have been working hard with the branch president and trying to come up with ideas on how to better help the branch. One idea that we have already put into place is starting FHE in the different areas. One thing thats unusual about the New Albany Area is that there are only about 2 families actually in New Albany, there are some in Blue Mtn (about 15 miles north of here), some in ripley (about 22 miles north of here) some in holly springs and potts camp (about 20-30 miles away) and with limitation on how many miles we have and how little the towns are its hard to find people, but anyways back to the FHE. We are going around to all the little towns and with some of the active members we have their we are doing family night. We are hoping as we do this that 1. The members will come, have fun and feel the spirit. 2. Invite others less active, non members, and others to come. and 3. be able to help the branch grow this way and find people to teach.

So thats pretty much been the week. FHE, contacting, trying to start Book of Mormon studies with recent converts. Life is good though. I wish I could tell yall some funny or interesting stores but for now I dont have any. I will hopefully have some soon. I just wanted to let yall know about a 10 step process to help you improve yourself in any aspect in your life. What ever you want to improve on do these 10 things. They come from my favorite chapter in PMG. Chapter 7, Learn the Language:)

1. Be patient with yourself. 

2. Be dedicated in your study. (Read AND ponder the BOM every day and it will help you with anything you will be doing) 

3. Memorize scriptures, poems, quotes. (This may seem silly or a waste of time, but Elder Richard G Scott has promised us that memorizing things gives us power) 

4. Record words or phrases you dont know in a notebook and look up the definition. (this will help you continue to learn new things every day) 

5. Actively listen (to others, to leaders or teachers or parents, and most important to the spirit!) 

6. Ask others to help you. (We all need help! Just ask) 

7. Dont be afraid of making mistakes (they are gonna happen. If your not afraid, once they do happen you can get past quicker and more easily) 

8. Learn with your companions, family, friends. (Be able to teach others, and be able to let others teach you) 

9. You need to actively seek it. (It being whatever your trying to improve on, you will not obtain whatever you seek without effort on your part) and 

10. Trust that the Spirit will help you as you live the way you should and do your very best! (Have faith and everything will work out:))

These can all be found in PMG pgs 128-133. I know that if you apply these 10 steps into improving yourself they can help you! You will improve, and see success more rapidly. You will be happier and also have fun.

This is kinda random but the other change this week is that im adding the "G" back onto my words haha I had a good talk with president Hanks about it:) but anyways hope yall have a great week! Love yall so very much and know that yall are in my prayers every night! Remember to be Happy:)

Love Elder Hall

Elder Isaiah Williams - March 31, 2014

Well this week was another blur. But lots got done. We're finally getting to know more and more people as we settle here in Arlington Heights. We have about 9 investigators, and continue to pick up more as we go throughout the weeks. There's lots of part-members and less actives here in the ward. Most of our investigators come from them. Which is good. I love teaching families. This week I've asked a couple of them if we could come over and do family home evening with them and most of them said heck yeah. Our goal is to show them how the gospel strengthens families.

   

I know being on a mission is all about serving others but as I teach families that don't have the gospel, I think In the back of my head of how I want my family to be. I see all the little things I want my family to do. I want my family to be glued together by the gospel. The gospel really does strengthen families. I've seen all the many blessings that come from it. Families seem to be more happy, loving,

and united. And who doesn't want that for their family!?!? Haha

The weather was bipolar this week. -_- it snowed, it rained, then Sunday happen to be 62. Haha it's annoying because we can't check weather forecast or anything so I never know what to wear! The area is finally starting to turn green after about 6 months. The golf courses look dead, the streets are all cracked because of the snow plows. They look like radiator springs after Lightning McQueen went through it. Lol I feel like I'm off roading most the time.

    

I'm honestly past the "Greeny" stage, but I still get called it all the time. I'm gonna start telling people that I've been out for a year. -_- maybe they'll stop. I think I'm seriously learning things to fast. Haha there are missionaries here that I tell stuff too and they are like "what the heck, how did you learn that so fast I learned that

when I was a year and a half out". I'm a genius, what can I say. ;) haha jk the spirit has been REALLY good to me though! One of my favorite times of the day is my personal study time from 8-9. That hour goes by faster than any hour I've every experience. I may have been disobedient once or twice going over. Psh haha jk way more times then that. But that's what repentance is for. I love the gospel. I have lots of things revealed to me from time to time and it makes me a

better missionary,  better teacher, and a better person. I love the role of the Holy Ghost!

   

This might sound weird but I'm afraid to come home. I've never been in this state of mind before. I've never felt the Holy Ghost so strongly in my life before and I know when I get back it's going to be really hard to feel this way. With the world being the way it is. Being busy with work and school. It's like almost impossible. But it is possible!

     

The members in the ward are finally getting pumped about missionary work. It's cause I bore my testimony on it and everyone feels bad haha but hey if that's why they come I won't be mad. They will get blessings from it anyways. Eventually they'll see why it's important.

     

We had a guy come out with us the other day. And me and my companion knew that he was beyond nervous. He is a convert of 20 years but never went on a mission. He volunteered himself to go out but didn't really know what he signed up for Haha we got to a house and before we get out he car we ALWAYS say a prayer. We prayed that he spirit would be with us all as we approached the house that we would know what to say when they came to door. We build his confidence with that prayer. And you could see it in his smile. He walked up, rang the doorbell and me and elder Jensen stepped back. Haha he was like "what are you doing!?" I said you got this! I was standing behind him. It was night time. As the investigators turned on the lights and came down stairs (in a onesie). He said "get from behind me, she's gonna think a big black guy is holding me hostage or something"lol. She opened the door, said she wasn't interested and slammed the door in his face. Surprisingly, he took that as a badge with of Honor. He just needed to go through that. He still had his confidence and wasn't afraid anymore :) we went to other houses and had little success. But at the end of the night he told us he LOVED the feeling of being out with us sharing the goodness of the gospel. Now I'm not saying go get a door slammed in your face but go out with the missionaries! There are hearts being prepared for YOU to bring others to Christ also. Missionary work isn't completely stopped but it's basically at a stand still, and it's not going really anywhere UNTIL members get involved. Numbers would double, even triple if members were involved more. so do more. :)

     

We do this activity in the ward. It's called gospel and goodies. As you can tell, it wasn't us that picked the name. It was the sisters before us. The missionaries conduct it. It's any activity that we do every other Wednesday. Members come and they HAVE to bring a non-member friend. It's a good way to get investigators involved in church in a more normal scene. We play games, eat goodies, and then the missionaries give a spiritual thought. We've only done it once but it seems to be pretty successful. It reminds me of a regular singles ward Famly Home Evenings.

     

K, so everybody can probably see that I have Facebook now. I promise it's authorized. It's one our biggest proselyting tools. So I'm not being disobedient I promise. Haha umm anyone can message me on it, I probably won't message you back, but I CAN read it. :) anyone can post on my wall as well. For the most part try and put a message that would make someone closer to Christ. Same thing with pictures, if you tag me in a picture or anything make sure it's missionary minded as well. :) if anyone has any spiritual messages, memes, or anything throw that bad boy on my wall! Like my spiritual posts as well, So I can get 100 likes! Chea! Jk haha so my post can make it on your Facebook and have someone whose not a member see it. So the more likes the better. It's missionary work, so don't let these opportunities past you by. At all times we should be building someones faith. So why not do that to multiple people at once. There's tons of losers (Sean Kleiman) lol out there who have nothing better to do but be on Facebook. ;) give them something to scroll down and see!

      

Anyways, this is my letter for the week. :) I hope everyone is continually building their faith as well. Continue to be examples to those who are watching, cause there's people creepin all the time. Study Christ like attributes and apply those in your lives. Send me emails! So I know how everyone is doing! everyone have a great week!!!

I'll end with a spiritual note.

In Alma 41:7. I highlighted the last sentence in that verse. Read that verse. And keep in mind that it's ok to judge ourselves. Everyday have a self-evaluation. Ask yourself what am I doing wrong, what can I change, how can I help. Read alma chapter 5! There are evaluation questions that alma asks. write them down on a piece of paper and take the test. When you get done, ask am I ready if Christ comes today??? Hmm we are our own judges, and we decide now, here on earth where we want to be after this life. Everyone gets rewards. If we do great, we get a great reward. If we do good we get a good award, but if we suck beyond all measure, what kind of reward do you think you'll get? Think about it. :)

- Elder Williams