May 27, 2019

Helloooooo everyone! Can't believe another week has gone by here in the Idaho Pocatello Mission. What a blessing it is to be serving the Lord in such a beautiful place. I have learned so much this week let me tell you/enlighten you. One major thing I learned and improved on a lot was about faith. Especially how our faith is the catalyst to basically every good thing in our life. I wrote this... "Faith = action; repentance, obedience, dedication, trust, service, diligence, work." Simply put, when we do some type of action with faith, it increases and God blesses us. Whatever that action is, as long a we're improving, our faith is growing. 

This week we found 2 new people woot woot! It's been a few weeks since we found, so it's been so nice and refreshing to have some new people in the teaching pool. We actually dropped our whole teaching pool too so we've been stuck on finding recently... OH and one of the daughters of a family that got baptized in September didn't get baptized because she didn't feel ready and she wanted to less-active dad to do it. This family is AWESOME. They've totally taken hold of the gospel and love it. They daughter, Emmalyn, is active completely just wasn't ready for baptism until recently! We set a date today for this next Sunday at 4 PM. We are pumped and her dad is going to perform the baptism!!!!!!! There's a lot of other details behind the family, but I love them and so does everyone, especially President Southward. So that's so exciting and right before I get transferred out as well. 

For P-day we are going to go on a hike with our ward mission leader and his wife and baby. Hopefully the rain (which has been coming for like 3 weeks) doesn't poop on us AGAIN. Spring is just being skipped here in Idaho and we're basically back to winter again. Yesterday was warm but rain is in the forecast all this week. 

Well know that I truly truly love each and every one of you reading this email and thanks for staying for so long haha. It's kind of becoming more real that my mission is coming to a close but I'm still in denial. I absolutely love this church and the gospel of Jesus Christ. It 100% has brought me closer to God than anything I've ever done or heard of. I challenge you to give it a shot! 

I love you all so much. God loves you so much, and that's what truly matters.

My companion and I are taking bathroom selfies in every house we have dinner at. We are going to make an album and it's gonna be lit. 

We went to the baptism of a guy I taught on exchanges. It was such a good service!!!