I’m doing great out here! It’s the last week of training
Elder Ellsworth so it’s pretty crazy how fast time flies!!
Wow, another little Heimuli coming and around Hevynn's birthday!! That’s great!! Haha
tell them congrats from me and that I love them.
What great scriptures you shared. Keeping God’s commandments
brings blessings, ESPECIALLY during tribulations. That’s where many people
who leave the Church believe God has abandoned them. But I testify that God
will never abandon us, usually we abandon Him. Scripture study and prayer will
definitely get us through the different trials we are facing. It’s when we stop
doing those things that we start to lose our faith and start to fall in the
midst of our trials. It’s all like one giant circle, but to sum it up, prayer,
reading, and keeping the commandments will ultimately bless us and keep us from
straying from the path.
I was just thinking about Aunty Lani when I read Alma 26:27 where
it talks about how when we bear with patience all of our afflictions, God will
give us success. This means that even if we have all the diligence and
obedience in the world, we will still have to bear the challenges we are
facing. Again, God never abandons us. He provides ways for us to get through
these trials through the love we receive from our family, good friends, leaders,
His Gospel, repentance and the Plan of Salvation.
When loved ones pass, it’s sad. I’m so sad for Uncle Tom and
Aunty Ana and glad you and dad are going there to support them. We all know how they
feel because we have all felt it. Nephi felt it in 2Nephi 4. But instead of
letting it shake his faith, it increased his faith. Read this scripture, it
will help. And I will keep everyone in my prayers!!
Tell Harrison, Congrats!! I’m proud of him, he is killing it
right now haha, even if he doesn’t think so. That’s good that he didn’t lose on
asparagus ;) And what’s a carafe? Did you feed that to him for dinner the next
day like you did with me and asparagus haha.
Well this week we had a pretty cool experience. So we were
biking to an area about 7-9 miles away from our house and halfway to that area
my tire like blew up!!! So we stopped. No one could give us a ride for like 4
hours. So we looked at each other and half-jokingly I said, "Well God
wanted us right here since he popped my tire so let’s work." We really did
believe we needed to be there. So we tracted for 3 hrs. Finally on the last
house a woman came out and answered the door. I told her we were missionaries
and she said, "Oh you’re Mormons!! I know all about the Mormons!!"
We both thought in our head, “Oh crap, she knows ‘all about’
the Mormons.....then she surprised us when she said, ‘I love them.’
She then told us the story of how when she was about to die
from a clot when her neighbors, who were Mormons, prayed and checked up on her
constantly. She lived, much to the surprise of the doctors, and she was
grateful to our Church. So we were able to teach her and we are going to see
her again this week! Anyways just a reminder of how charity goes a long
way. That’s pretty much the highlight of my week. I am still reeling from
how fast this is going! Love you mom and tell everyone I love them as well!
Ofa Lahi Atu!
Elder Heimuli
P.S. haha GHS!!! What a lame high school [Elder Heimuli got this picture of Harrison at the District Spelling
Competition held at Viewmont]
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