Elder McCloud is
good!! In fact things here are great!!!!
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| What a clown |
Things at home seem
like they are doing a lot better! I hope Helam didn’t get injured at this year’s
game haha! He probably didn’t because he was probably beating everyone else
down. I hope Aunty Lani is doing well. I got to hear from her :) she is strong,
stronger than me. And why would you say your challenge is to follow the
promptings of the spirit?
This week was
great! We went on exchanges with Plymouth and did service with them this week.
I got to go with an Elder Morgan who actually came out with me on the same day.
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| With Elder Morgan |
Doing service I got to
be with Elder (Jared) Clark who played DE for Woods Cross. Heyyy, no one’s
perfect :) It’s funny what good friends you become when you’re on a mission, when
before you hated their guts because they went to a rival school.
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| With Elder Clark from Woods Cross High School |
So him, Quick and I
love to reminisce haha!!! However the service was great. We cut wood for a
Brother Richarts who coached for BYU in 1980. He knows Vai and said to say hi from
him. What a small world.
Then this weekend
we had the opportunity to go to stake conference. Elder Randall K. Bennett and
Elder Michael V. Beheshti spoke at the conference. It was amazing. During Saturday
stake conference Elder Bennett loved having the audience involved. So there
were only three 5-minute talks (awesome!) and the rest of the time he turned to
the audience.
Here's what he did
after each person spoke. He'd say "Ok, you know what you’re doing wrong.
Now, how are you going to change?" I thought about that the whole time. How
am I going to change? We all recognize our faults and recognize what we do
wrong, but what are we doing to fix those issues? We get into a habit of
thinking that since we recognize what we are doing wrong we can just wait for
someone or something else to change us. No. We have to do it! In the Gospel of
Jesus Christ true repentance is when, after recognize what we’re doing wrong,
we IMMEDIATELY stop it! Then we do all we can to make up for it. So if we are
not doing something right, STOP IT and move on.
Needless to say I
was inspired and I thought, "Yeah, I need to go tracting for 4 hrs now!!!!
LETS GO!!!" Wouldn’t you know it, tracting that day did not go that well.
In fact we pretty much got shut down at every door and I thought,
"Well.....crap..." haha!!
However we saw a
pretty cool miracle. We knocked on a door and a guy came out and said, "Oh
you guys again. My mom’s a Mormon and she thinks she should send missionaries
here to convert me. I’m not going to be converted, forget about it."
We paused and
looked at him and said, "We just want to share a Christ-centered message
with you if that’s ok." He looked at us and told us to go out the side
door.
We talked for a bit
and of course he was not interested, but then his sister-in-law came outside
and said, "Oh thank goodness!!! I’ve been praying for you guys for
weeks!!!"
Turns out this lady
moved from Florida just a couple months ago and was homesick. She was converted
there and knew that the missionaries could help her feel better and find the
nearest church. So this week we will be visiting her and taking her to church.
It’s just funny how miracles turn out, and it’s often not always the way you
think.
Anyways other than
that this week has just been another great week of missionary work :) I love it
out here!! I’m so blessed and so thankful for this gospel! I pray everything
goes well at home and I love you all!!!
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| Proud uncle showing off his beautiful planner cover |
Ofa Lahi Atu
Elder Heimuli
P.S. Thank you for the packages :) I bought milk
and we downed the cereal! haha Thank you!
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