Its great to here from you guys. Italy look s
beautiful! A lot better than when I was there. Anyways this week has
been quite rough, but the end of it was real good. I got pretty homesick
during the beginning of the week. I hadn't really been homesick all
that much since I have been out and I thought that I was going to get
out of it scott free but no... It was tough but I just stayed focus and
kept working and it has past and things are pretty good right now.
Other than that I had lots of questions on my mind. Just questions and
questions. It got quite frustrating. After studying and listening
carefully to the leaders of the church in conference talks, I kind of
came to the realization that I simply need to have faith. Simply just
having more faith. After that, everything else didn't really seem to
matter all that much, and I was able relax quite a bit. Anyways I have
continued to read the book of Mormon, and as I read it just gets keeps
getting more real to me. My gratitude for being able to know of our real
purpose here on Earth has grown, it has put what I am doing now here on
Earth in an Eternal perspective and makes me want to share what I know
with those in Onehunga. It's a bit depressing when people simply don't
want to know what we have to share, they are stuck in the mindset of
worldly things period. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for each of his
children so they can grow to their fullest and so I just keep doing my
best and putting my trust in him. I have certainly learned a lot!
Well at the end of the week we had a baptism! That was a
wonderful experience. We baptized a guy named Rob, Elder De Kock
performed it. Rob's girlfriend is a member. Which is a bit questionable
but we really made sure that Rob has a real testimony. It's is a good
example as to how memebers are the key to missionary work. President
Monson has said now is the time for members and missionaries, to join
forces and both labor in missionary work. When a member is there to
answer the questions of the investigator and help them understand
certain aspects of the church it can really do wonders. Me and Elder De
Kock have also really been trying to get the Ward involved to. We gave
talks in Sacrament meeting about missionary work not to long ago, and
now we are going to families homes inviting them to pray and ask
Heavenly Father who is ready to learn of the gospel and receive it. So
hopefully some miracles come of that!
I wish I
could right more! Love you all and keep the e-mails coming. I try to
respond to all them well but it is hard to!
Love you guys so much -Elder Ward
Picture of me and Elder De kock at the Baptism.\
The one of the park is a Stake Rugby activity it was really cool!
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