Anyways, hello everyone this week was interesting. I will start off with telling how I got sick. So we were doing service and I got and we were finishing up and they had some drinks that the volunteers could take if the want, and I did. I took a Diet Coke and I started to drink it when we got back to our apartment. Of course I didn't check the expiration date or anything because a food pantry will typically throw away anything bad so I didn't bat an eye. I noticed it tasted a little different (just goes to show how much soda I drink I guess) but I look at the expiration date and it turns out it expired in September.. 2016. That was an amazing experience. So I stayed inside all day because I was sick. I basically went crazy because I got so bored of just doing nothing but sitting and I could focus on my studies because I was constantly uncomfortable. So that sucked but whatever.
Earlier this last week on Tuesday we finally got rid of our couches. It was difficult because obviously a couch that had been owned by 18-20 year-old's is not going to be in the best shape. It was falling completely apart and we had to put it in the bed of a truck so what we did was we pinched the couch together on both sides and had someone lift from the middle as well. I have moved more furniture from my own apartment than from people in my ward. I am going professional.
We are teaching about 5 new investigators. We have set appointments with some and Friended the rest on Facebook for better contact. The weather is super bi-polar and always cold is, but I am getting used to it and can go out in 40 degree weather with a short sleeve shirt and be fine. Those two stories make this week sound bad but it was fun.
Also funny story, Salt Lake sent me a package that I didn't order, had my name and everything but I wasn't charged for it. So I take it inside and open it up and it was a box of 32 seminary graduation diploma cases. Just randomly sent to me. and I don't know what to do with them so I tried to offer them to the seminary teacher in our ward because we had dinner at there house last night. I still don't know what to do with them because I am not sure if he wanted them. So this box is just sitting in our room. I don't have a use for them and they have zero value because I already graduated and I don't need another. So that's an adventure waiting to happen.
We have been teach people lately and finding people a lot easier. Which is always good. It is always fun when you have an appointment or just stop by and share a message with these people. They all usually believe in God which makes it easy to strike a conversation about religion. Even if they tell you that they aren't interested you still get to talk with them and hear there story and testimony and also share yours.
Speaking of testimony, I feel like I should give mine in this email. I know without a doubt in my mind that these things are true, they always have and always will be true. I have seen adversity in my mission in many different forms and how they have affected different people. There will always be adversity and with that there comes doubt. This doubt as I have found is a strong tool to draw us away from what we know is right. It makes us feel inadequate and useless. But I know with all the knowledge in my brain and all the feelings of my heart that whatever may be a problem today will, with faith, be vanished. And though I can't give an exact time of when it will be gone I can promise that it will be. I think a good scripture to go with this is Matthew 28:17-18 and it states, "And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth." I know this is true because He has become my salvation, I will trust in him and be not afraid, because the Lord has become my strength to move forward and my song to sing above all else and he has shown me the way that I might continue and show others the same. I have prayed to know these things and as I have prayed for these thing I have had a physical shaking from the joy and peace and happiness which I had felt and I had started so swallowed up in prayer that I had become unaware of the world around me that I though feeling like an minute ended up being closer to an hour. I have desired to learn more and not only have I received and answer of the truthfulness of this but I am continuing to receive that answer as I desire more. Faith is the only thing needed find these truths. Without it, there is just doubt.
Anyways that's all I really had for this email I will put pictures at the bottom. Talk to yall next week. Bye.
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