{Letter #8} Technology is Cool

Okay y'all so this week was pretty good! Nothing too crazy has happened, but things are good here in Boring and it's still not raining.

So this past Wednesday we had interviews and training with President Haymond. It was seriously so cool! The training was focused on technology and how we can use it to find people to teach. Let me tell you, it is amazing the work that is starting to happen over technology. The Portland mission is one of the piloting missions for some new online tools that the church is using and it's amazing to see the work that is happening because of them. The interviews with president were really good! Its amazing how much he knows about missionary work and just life in general.

Thursday was a pretty average day. Just lots of trying to get in contact with inactive members, and formerly taught people.

Friday is where the second part of the subject line cones from. So one of the people in my apartment, Elder Partridge, was making a smoothie that needed some water in it. So he pulled out the faucet hose thing and put it above the blender. He said "Technology is cool" then turned on the water and sprayed it all over the floor. It was a lot funnier in person. But it just fit with the title this week so I decided to put it in.

Saturday was good, we had SPC and got the new message that we are sharing with the members in the stake. It was pretty uneventful after that.

On Sunday we had fast and testimony meeting which was super good! After that we we to dinner at the stake president's house and shared the message that he had just given us the day before! It was fun.
Monday was our most eventful day. So we met with a referral named Caden finally! He's a super cool guy that currently attends a non-denominational Christian church. He seemed open to continue meeting with us and took a Book of Mormon with him that he said he'd read! Super exciting stuff. Later on Monday we had a lesson with Bubba. We asked Bubba if he wants to be baptized on November 12th and he said yes! I'm very excited for him!

That's pretty much all for the week so I'll get into my spiritual thought. It's going to come from Elder Rasband's general conference talk. In general conference Elder Rasband invited us to share The Book of Mormon with our friends and he promises us the same blessings that are promised in 1 Nephi 13:37 in which the Lord says:

"And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be"

I am going to extend the same invitation to all of you. I know that if you share The Book of Mormon along with a simple testimony of it that you will have the Holy Ghost with you and that you will have greater peace and joy in your life. If you do act on this invitation I'd love to hear some of your stories of how it went!

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