Transfer to OU!

Everything is going well here! We've been working hard, having fun and staying hydrated (it's hot).

I'm transferring to the University of Oklahoma (OU) campus in Norman, Oklahoma, so I'm a boomer sooner now, probably for life. It'll be so good! 

Yeah things have been picking up! I've been really growing and I think I know how to missionary! Now it's time to become a true disciple! OU is really going to push me that's for sure! But God trusts me and sent me here, so that means I can do this.

I know I'm making a difference out here! I've been seeing it more and more. I'm just grateful that I can be used in the Lord's hands. I've grown a lot.

So a miracle from this last week was with our Investigator Alicia. We found her in a very average way, we just talked to her and her friend at a park a couple of weeks back on exchanges. She was interested but kind of indifferent about everything. We were finally able to meet up with her this week at the park again. We started talking about life, she's been through a lot and is just kind of down trodden. We talked a lot about a person’s ability to choose and how so much revolves around that. So that naturally lead to the plan of salvation. We taught her simply and she asked some good questions. At the end of it all, she liked it. She said she felt very peaceful talking about it, a peace she hadn't felt in a long time. Then Elder Kestner asked her to pray about what we had said. She hesitated, she hadn't prayed in years and felt so distant. We explained how to do it and just that she just needed to just say what she needs to say. We reassured her that God is our Father, that he wants to hear from us and is just waiting for us to "knock". We sat there a bit, quiet. Then she started to pray. What a spiritual experience that was. She was talking to her Father, we knew it and she knew it. It was simple yet natural and special. She told us after, she hadn't felt so good in so long and that she knew the things we taught were true. She's excited to keep meeting with us.

There are a lot of hardships with the mission. There’s homesickness, loneliness, feelings of inadequacy, fear, and a work grind that at times becomes tedious and feels like nothing is happening. But it is all worth it for that one experience. 

Elder Wold