{Letter #48} Jesus Loves You oO-Oo-oO0

 

Hello everyone! I hope all of you have had a great week! Things have gone pretty well here, lots and lots to keep us busy. A few things that have happened: interviews, cleanup, and Patrick!

First off, last Wednesday we had interviews with President Botchway! These were awesome! It was President's very first time doing interviews with a zone, so it was a pretty new experience for him. It was honestly just him trying to get to know us a bit better. It was cool. He follows the Spirit very well.

We also had a training going on at the same time that went pretty well! We talked a lot about treating everyone with the love that Christ would. It was very powerful. We have so many examples in the scriptures, and around us today, that we can look to and follow as we try to develop this love.

One that stood out to me from recent studies was in the account of Lehi's vision of the tree of life (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8?lang=eng). He saw many people seeking to come to the tree of life (which represents the love of God). All of them trying to press forward through a variety of different challenges, struggles, and temptations around them. The only ones who made it to the tree of life and stayed there, was the ones who help fast to the iron rod (which represents the word of God).

In other words, the only way that we can be filled with the love of God continually is to hold fast to the word of God! Hold fast to the scriptures! Hold fast to the teachings of the living prophet! Hold fast to what the Spirit teaches us!

When we do that we will feel God's love acting more in our own life. Not only that, but we will feel of God's love for all His children. We will be better able to love like Christ did if we hold fast to the word of God!

Next, we were able to go to Michael's house to help cleanup his property for his wedding on Friday! It's kinda out in the middle of nowhere on a bunch of fields. It's a very pretty place and it was good to help out with that.

We also had a really cool experience where we met our friend Patrick yesterday. We were trying to get in touch with a referral we had received the previous day. we had just knocked on their door with no answer. As we were walking towards the next person we were visiting we walked around a corner and Patrick was there! We started talking, he has a christian background and said that he had always wanted to meet with missionaries.


We had a really good discussion with him and he really loved the Book of Mormon! He said that it just makes sense that we would have another record of Jesus Christ. We invited him to read from it and pray about it, he seemed very excited to do so.

Th craziest part about this whole experience, Patrick is from Florida. He was visiting a friend of his, in our area, for the week. He was working from home that day, had just decided to step outside to take a walk for a little break. Everything had to fall into place just right for all that to happen! God is a God of miracles!

My spiritual thought from this week comes from what the Lord said to Moroni in Ether 4:

"Therefore, repent all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me, and believe in my gospel, and be baptized in my name; for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; ... and signs shall follow them that believe in my name."

Here the Lord, Jesus Christ, is speaking about us! I love the promise Christ gives to us! there will be signs and wonders that follow those that believe in Christ! There will be miracles! I add my witness to that! If we believe in Christ we will see those signs, miracles, and wonders in our own life and te lives of those around us!

I love you all! I hope you all have a great week! Let me know if I can do anything to help you all out!

Love,
Elder Goold


Pictures:
-random 9pm picture we sent to our zone

-Michael's dog Acorn


-interviews


-a cool decoration


-the view from Michael's