HIII EVERYONE!!!! I love you all
Mannn it was so good to get to see
all of you yesterday and get to say hi!!!! Seeing the extended fam and Grandma
and Grandpa was such a blessing as well! So thank you Scottie for setting that
up and I got to see baby Hazel!!! That was so awesome haha I love you guys and
miss you!!!
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| There's nothing like getting to see your missionary smile and laugh! |
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| Mikey and Elder Nau |
This was a little bit of a more
challenging week. I felt as if I was in a little bit of a lull after being in
Mingo Valley for so long now with Elder Nau and it can be discouraging to teach
these same people and have them not ever end up showing up to church or
anything. I think we just need to re-evaluate who we are going to go see and I
need to be a lot better at finding people to teach.
We saw some awesome miracles still
this week though. One of them was our new investigator Danielle. She stopped
some missionaries and said she needed some prayer in her life. She is probably
in her late 20's early 30's and she has two kids one of them is 8 and the other
is a newborn. Her story is pretty sad and has left her wondering about
spiritual things quite a bit. Her fiance' passed away a couple of years ago
right before their marriage and she is struggling to find purpose and comfort
with life. It was so awesome to show her scriptures from the Book of Mormon
that just brought her so much peace. My favorite chapter from Preach my Gospel
and my favorite thing to teach people out here is the section "The Book of
Mormon Answers Questions of the Soul." It is so true. God didn't leave us
to just wander around this planet with no instructions. The scriptures are
literally all the answers. The hard part is just that they weren't written
topically haha also that is a blessing though because it inspires us to have to
search!!! Danielle is awesome and she already has made an awesome friend in one
of our awesome members, Sister Oakley!!! We are excited for her future and I
think she has really been prepared to join the church.
I was reviewing one of my all time
favorite talks this week from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf entitled, "In Praise of Those Who Save."
I love this talk so much and I have been trying to apply the teachings into my
life. Often times as a missionary it is easy to get into like a negative mode
and then pretty soon you realize how much you hate this and that about
missionary work. This is all just because of your mindset though. Hence
the scripture "seek and ye shall find." So in all the situations I
face I am trying to apply President Uchtdorf's teaching of "pull out the
weeds and plant the garden." I hope to be able to feed and nourish the
happy parts of my life and seek for the good qualities in others always. Rather
than looking at other people and what bugs you about them, why not look at them
and see all the things that you love about them. Whatever you are looking for
you will find. :)
That talk was given to the
priesthood about saving marriages, and saving families. I am so grateful for
the family that I was given on this earth. I loved talking to them so much
yesterday! Especially for my Mama! I love you Mama. Thank you for raising me and
teaching me the gospel and so many things that I never even realized. Thank you
for all the hours at the gym and ballparks :) I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. Thank
you to all you mothers everywhere. Me and all my friends have such awesome moms
and I am very grateful for Jackie, and Dana, Lori, Valerie, Sherrie, Jodi, etc... I could go on and on about how many awesome people I have
in my life that I am so grateful for. Especially
my mama who gave me such awesome opportunities in this world by her own hard
work and faith and all the amazing characteristics she exemplifies. My mama
having raised three boys loves the story about the stripling warriors. She has
her own little army of helaman in her home haha sometimes more like a bunch of Laman and Lemuels haha but I know that me and my brothers do not doubt that our
mother knew it! I just love my family they are so
awesome and I love my awesome friends/adopted family that I got to say hi to
yesterday! I just love you all haha
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| Mikey with his arm around me haha |
Elder Green
remember Jacob 6:12 - from Parker Green
“O be wise; what can I say more?”
