The official day is the 30th but this is the email. It's been an awesome year and this week has honestly been one of the craziest so it was a good week to end the first year. A lot was left out sadly or y'all would be reading for a while but here are the highlights:
Kevin - so this is the mute and deaf Kevin and he really wants to be baptized. So last Sunday we had ASL Sisters over zoom and they tried teaching him but it wasn't so great, then this week they had to bail so we weren't sure what to do. We got a bunch of pictures of Jesus and a member who knows ASL and taught them the plan of salvation and the Atonement of Christ. According to the translator they understood it pretty well which is awesome! Please pray for him
Transfers - it was crazy as always. We took a slightly longer way down for a cool pic, and then had fun talking with a bunch of missionaries. Had fun talking with everyone and then I got my new comp, Elder Harmon. This guy is so awesome. It's only been like 4 days but I've honestly loved it and am getting along with him great. The drive home was long but we got chick FIL a so that was nice.
Alana + Tasha - Tasha came on Sunday and seemed to enjoy it and said she had questions. So we met with both of them right after transfers and had the best lesson with them ever. It was mostly for Tasha because this time she was asking the questions and was invested in the answer. It was super cool because up until then she didn't talk much and just seemed interested in activities. But after that we had an even better discussion on prayer and the things that were holding them back and it honestly went so well. Please pray for them.
Tatum - we had so many great lessons. This was Sunday night and we started by talking about The Things of My Soul by Elder Rasband. We focused more on temple recommend and she finally goes, "I'm holding myself back. I need to stop procrastinating." And Harmon goes, "you just got told by the Spirit."
It was pretty awesome and we went over the questions and she shared her testimony and it was legit.
Spiritual thought: so the thought I wanted to share was Matthew 14
29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
When Peter walked on water he did it because of His faith and focus on Christ. But he began to sink when he doubted himself and lost his focus on Christ. There are a lot of times when we don't necessarily doubt God but we doubt ourselves and the trust He puts in us. And I just wanted to remind all of you that no matter what you think about yourself God thinks the world of you, He sacrificed His Son for you, and He trusts you to do the right and receive all the blessings He's promised us.
I hope you reach out to God this week and feel those blessings, feel His power in your life.
I love and miss y'all
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