Hey y'all!!
Elder Tait and I are having a blast! A normal day for us recently has looked like lessons on lessons on lessons back to back. The Lord has been blessing us so much with some solid people! We taught 24 lessons last week and I think we're going to teach even more this week! It all comes back to this saying for me that Elder Van Alfen gave me: "Work like it all depends on you, pray and depend on the Lord for your blessings because it all depends on him".
We have like 30 investigators right now and the most solid people are:
Ash- we met on campus, she was on a unicycle and the member I went finding with could ride one! So we showed her how and then asked to meet up and she's so cool! She has a date to be baptized right now!
Carlie- She’s a ballerina and I gave her my personally marked Book of Mormon. We saw her on campus and she remembered it and actually read it and met up and is doing well too!
Ethan- member referral from our ward mission leader! He’s getting baptized on Nov 17th and nothing will shake him from that!
Beth- met her on exchanges, literally so cool! Felt the Spirit way strong our first lesson when talking about Joseph Smith! Also working on a baptism date.
The biggest thing I’ve learned is true is the Book of Mormon. Now I'm not gonna say I didn't believe it was true before, I had a pretty good testimony. But I know it is now! How? Well it's not like anything special came and hit me in the face, no super spiritual experience or anything.
I think Alma 32:28-end really describes my process. I've experimented with it for years. It teaches about Christ, the teachings have blessed my life. It makes sense and has brought me closer to my Savior. And it denotes that a living prophet translated it. And the fact that we have prophets and apostles and such a great church and people just makes me so happy and fills me with so much joy unlike anything else. And all things in our church rely on the Book of Mormon. So I know it's true.
In my scripture study lately I’ve learned a lot on faith. More specifically on how the Lord asks us to just simply believe and we still struggle with that. I've been applying this in my daily life, like when I have things I worry about and am scared to do, I choose to believe in my calling and in the Lord's promises that He'll help me as I'm righteous and worthy.
I've also learned a lot about choices and my ability to choose how I feel, how I act and how I respond to adversity. Because in reality, it's all my choice. And I love that, that it's all up to me, not something I just can't control.
As far as mission life goes, I’m not cooking much but when I do it's usually something off the wall. Like we made street tacos the other day and we had spaghetti too. But the ward feeds us so we mostly don't. Sometimes for lunch I make a ham and cheese but I grill it so it's waaaay good. On preparation day, my favorite thing to do is to play basketball or play a fun game called signs! It's way fun!
Love y'all so much!!!
Elder Wold
