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Aloha my Ohana!
Guess I am back to doing my letters the old fashioned way. Doing the videos was past my tech knowledge anyway!
Glad to hear things are going their usual. It's been the same here nothing too exciting, all our appointments ended up canceling on us at some point. So we have been doing a lot of finding activities. It's the first time I've actually had to do finding in this area!
We had stake conference this past Saturday and Sunday, we had president Pearson of the 70 come and speak to us, the talk he gave l on Saturday was amazing. He talked about walking on the path of discipleship, by clinging on the iron rod. He said the book of Mormon is our spiritual survival guide a d without it there is no chance we can survive spiritually In this world, he also talked about the mists of darkness being Satan's attempt to confuse us and lead us away. He also shared his thoughts about when the second coming would be, and bu what he said he thinks it will happen within the next ten years. He tied that in with all the adjustments with the church saying: there will come a time where the church will be the only source of light on the earth. I thought this message was a great way to put perspective on these changes. Whether or not it happens in 10 years or more, we know that the work is hastening... that means things are going to happen...
. Besides this I don't have much else to talk about, one of the people we are teaching (Kabor) came! He was driving all around town the night before trying to find the stakecenter. (Some missionaries took a pic of him so I will send it).
One last thing we had another person we are teaching (Tanya) come, she is going through a hectic time right now but we invited her and she said she would come (but unfortunately she said she had to drink coffee to do it).
So we were up till 11 that night trying to find transportation that night for her. We finally found someone who is a really great example of true ministering. They risked their spot in the choir to bring Tanya. Nobody else in the ward was willing to, not even our bishop! I feel they had the right sense of what's important. They sacrificed their own wants to help someone come closer to Christ. (And they still got to sing!) Maybe it's because I am a missionary I am so excited about the work, but they had every right to refuse, we even gave them a way out, but they chose to help. Which I really appreciated!
But this was my week! Nothing too fancy, but it still had something exciting happen.
I will look out for the package! Thank you that should really help food wise. They surprisingly have not increased our budget yet, guess we will she if that changes.
Take care
with much Aloha
Elder Esplin
Guess I am back to doing my letters the old fashioned way. Doing the videos was past my tech knowledge anyway!
Glad to hear things are going their usual. It's been the same here nothing too exciting, all our appointments ended up canceling on us at some point. So we have been doing a lot of finding activities. It's the first time I've actually had to do finding in this area!
We had stake conference this past Saturday and Sunday, we had president Pearson of the 70 come and speak to us, the talk he gave l on Saturday was amazing. He talked about walking on the path of discipleship, by clinging on the iron rod. He said the book of Mormon is our spiritual survival guide a d without it there is no chance we can survive spiritually In this world, he also talked about the mists of darkness being Satan's attempt to confuse us and lead us away. He also shared his thoughts about when the second coming would be, and bu what he said he thinks it will happen within the next ten years. He tied that in with all the adjustments with the church saying: there will come a time where the church will be the only source of light on the earth. I thought this message was a great way to put perspective on these changes. Whether or not it happens in 10 years or more, we know that the work is hastening... that means things are going to happen...
One last thing we had another person we are teaching (Tanya) come, she is going through a hectic time right now but we invited her and she said she would come (but unfortunately she said she had to drink coffee to do it).
So we were up till 11 that night trying to find transportation that night for her. We finally found someone who is a really great example of true ministering. They risked their spot in the choir to bring Tanya. Nobody else in the ward was willing to, not even our bishop! I feel they had the right sense of what's important. They sacrificed their own wants to help someone come closer to Christ. (And they still got to sing!) Maybe it's because I am a missionary I am so excited about the work, but they had every right to refuse, we even gave them a way out, but they chose to help. Which I really appreciated!
But this was my week! Nothing too fancy, but it still had something exciting happen.
I will look out for the package! Thank you that should really help food wise. They surprisingly have not increased our budget yet, guess we will she if that changes.
Take care
with much Aloha
Elder Esplin
