I LOVE Seeing Things Like That Happen in My Life!!!!!!!!

Email received 1/20/14

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I have changes but I won`t know where I`m going until Wednesday. But yeah, things here are going pretty good. It`s been cool. We`ve been able to leave and work with the young men in the ward everyday this week so that`s been SUPER helpful!!!!!!!!!!! But yeah things are going good. The bishop is doing good. He`s still SUPER sick but we were able to meet with him last week and he`s improving a lot which is good!!!!!!!

But yeah, like I said this week has been good. It was pretty normal but good. Something cool that did happen was I gave a baptismal interview to a guy who went to church for the first time 3 weeks ago. It was cool because he told me after the interview that he feels a little weird because he`s only known about the church for 3 weeks but he`s going to get baptized. He said that he doesn`t quite understand what`s going on but he said that he`s going to get baptized because he knows it`s true and the spirit is telling him to do it. It was really cool!!!!!!!!!! I instantly remembered the scripture in 1st Nephi when Nephi is going in to get the plates from Laban and he says that he went in following the spirit without knowing beforehand what he needed to do. It`s REALLY cool to see people exercise their faith to do what the Lord wants them to do. Sometimes we feel like we need to know all the answers before we do something. But that`s not the case. More times than not, we just need to go for it having Faith in Christ and knowing that he`s going to help us out and guide us to do the good. 

Another cool experience was that my comp and I were visiting some people with a lady in our ward that lives SUPER far from our house. And other then the fact that her son peed on my shoe it was a SUPER cool experience!!!!!!!! We visited a lot of her neighbors teaching them little lessons and inviting them to church. It was really cool!!!!!!! But anyway, after we finished, my comp and I went to go wait for the bus. But it was already 9 in the PM and there were no more buses so we were going to have to take a taxi. Like I said, we were SUPER far from the house so a taxi ride was going to cost us at least 6 bucks. So we were a little frustrated with that but we took a taxi anyway. But the cool thing is, when we reached our house, I asked the taxi driver how much it was going to be she told us that she wasn`t going to charge us anything because we are missionaries serving God and serving others. And she told us that if she could serve us and help us serve others that`s good enough payment for her. So we thanked her and invited her to church. IT WAS SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE seeing things like that happen in my life!!!!!!!! I love seeing people being good people and helping others. It really animates me!!!!!!!!!! And it`s animated me more to be constantly looking for ways to serve people. Because like it says in the scriptures, when we are in the service of our fellow beings we are only in the service of our God. That is 100% true!!!!!!!!!!! And we recieve TONS of blessings from helping others!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

But yeah, like I said things are going good here!!!!!!!!!!! Next week I`ll be in a new area. Thanks for EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


P.S.
Oh, one more thing. In my interview with President Carmack he told me my exact date for when I go home. It looks like I`ll be going home the 3rd of July!!!!!!!!! Anyway, LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!