The Gospel Give Comfort

Hey mommy! 

    Thank you thank you! I really did have a good birthday!  I truly do feel loved. Sister Dale from my last area was I guess planing on making me a cake for my birthday and ended up being sick that day.. So brother Dale took us out to eat... And they had us over this Saturday for a surprise birthday party another one hahah.. So I got another cake for my birthday. I am so spoiled haha.  I love them so much. That family has just been there to support me so much. 

 

     I am glad you like hearing about my investigators. I truly do love them. It's wired how that works. It could just be one lesson that we have taught to an investigator but it doesn't matter.. I feel like I have had that love for them for all my entire life. And the more I get to serve them the more I love them.

My district is doing super well. None of the areas in this district have baptized for the longest time like almost  year each. But this transfer we have all been blessed with baptisms. The lord does truly have his tender mercies. I love him. I remember how terrified I was when I got this call. And president said. That he expected baptisms out each one of this areas this transfer.. I didn't know honestly if it was possible at all. But we did it!!!!! We are so blessed! I love my missionaries. In fact  I think we have the best missionaries in the world here in the Kentucky Louisville mission. 

Wendell is doing so good!! He got stuck after thunder over Louisville Saturday night and had to spend the night at a hotel.. So he wasn't able to make it to church the next day but we went to a fireside for investigators and recent converts. They just basically go up and bare there testimonies! It was super powerful. Wendell got up and bore his testimony of the reality of the savior Jesus Christ. And he even used scriptures from the Book of Mormon.  I was so happy. Now we just gotta baptize him haha. And the cool thing was some of my recent converts were there for my last two areas and they all bore their testimony of their conversion. And it really humbled me and brought tears of joy. I love them. And they do mean the world to me. 

Josh,Sarah, and Michelle are all one family. We have been working with the them now for little over a month. They are super sweet humbled family. Michelle lost her husband and her child here recently and it has been very hard on her. She really had no clue what would happen to her husband and her child.. And she specially was worried about her child because he never was baptized and she taught he would just go to hell. And she was super troubled and we were able to read Moroni chapter 8 with her. And it gave her so much happiness and comfort and peace. They are super awesome. We are working hard to get them baptized here in a few weeks. 

This gospel does give comfort to those that are looking for it. I love it so much. It gives me hope. I know I can't find this joy any where else.. But from this church. He loves to shower us with blessings. But the catch is .. With every blessing there comes also a law. And that is being obedient to gods commandments. Our apostles and prophets have said " it is by obedience that we gather light into our souls" I hundred percent believe that to be true! I love you guys! Thanks for all you do. I think I have the best parents in the world. No wait... I know I have the best parents in the world. You have a blessed week!!

Mesafint's Birthday Week

   hello!!

    yes indeed its my birthday! it is crazy. i am not a teenager anymore!!!!!!!! praise the lord. this week has been so much fun and very eventful. i don't really member everything that happened but i know that it was good haha. first of all before i forget... please tell damitu to get light closing for July. that is the hottest month we have and humidity doesn't make it any better.and everyone i have talked with from there says the same. but winter i guess is not so bad there. and then the other thing is i got couple referrals for her.. from some people in our ward. and i will give those to her, when she get's to leaving.

    but anyway we had a sweet zone conference. this week and everything we got trained was what i trained my district the week before haha. so we had some good answers from perch my gospel because we have been studding that section so we sounded smart haha. and after that i went on exchange with elder gay and corydon Indiana. and that was super fun. elder gay has been out for very long and is got 2 more transfers before he has to go home. but anyway we has this super sweet service we did and it was on a ranch and they like had a buffalo and camel and they even had goats.... and and they had pigmy goats!!!!! they were so cute!!  and i came back the next day.

    and then we had tracy get baptized this Saturday!! that was pretty cool. i was super exited for her. i was amazed that we were able to baptize her so fast because we have only known her for 3 and half weeks haha. but she is awesome and i get give her alot of crap. because she likes chicken feet too.... but anyways i got to confirm her a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints god bless it.

  wendell is doing super well. but i don't know if he will be baptized this weekend. he know the church is true and the gospel is true but i guess he wants to find out more on Joseph smith before he gets bad. and he wants to see both sides of the church like the opposing side of the church and supportive sides of it as well.. so please keep him in your prayers!! i know he will get baptized.. i just don't know when tho...

    it looks like Friday will be crazy because the dales are planing on coming to Brandenburg for my birthday and i am so exited. i love those guys so much. matt got ordained an elder this weekend so he is super happy. they made a big difference in my mission.

   but anyways things are going so well for us here. i feel so blessed. thanks for the birthday wishes mom. it feels so wired not being home for my birthday but then again, i feel blessed im on my mission and celebrating my birthday here is a blessing. i love y'all and thanks for everything you do for me.

General Conference

  It's sounds like y'all a super fun week!! That's super fun. I feel like y'all go on a lot of fun trips when me and mubarek go on a mission haha just kidding. Luke is so cute!!!!!!! I don't even know how I will introduce myself to him someday haha. But anyways my week has been super awesome a lot happened in such a short time. My mission is going so fast that sometimes I don't even know what to even think.

    

        We had another district meeting in Indiana this last week and I gave a training on setting and reaching our daily goals. And binding the lord with our goals and aligning our goals with what he wants. It went really well and as a result my district surprised me with really good numbers last night. I was so proud of them. We are starting to see big difference as they start applying the principles we talk about. And before that tho I went to Jeffersonville Indiana with elder Waite my zone leader and I had a good exchange with him. And I guess Candice got the wrong Idea after feeding us dinner!!! I was just being nice haha. But she feed us so,e good hamburger helper with mashed potatoes! 

 

        General conference was truly a blessing for me. I heard what I needed to hear. What a wonderful blessing it is to have inspired people lead gods one true church. My cup is full and I was rejuvenated. They all gave wonderful talks and I was really happy to see our prophet make it.  And elder holland was like a dessert to general conference. They couldn't have ended it any better. I'm humbled. And I learned to much. Now that being said I will tell you what I tell my district after every district meeting haha... So there couple penguins waddling around and they see and Eagle flying around and they say... I wish I could fly like that.. So the eagle flies to them and tells them that they are holding a flying seminar next week and if they come to it he will teach them how to fly.. So they did go to it and he did teach them how to fly and they were astonished and taught it was marvelous  but at the end of the day when the seminar was over, all those penguins waddled home.. The moral of the story is don't waddle home apply the principles that were taught at general conference. 

      Our investigators are doing so well. We have Tracy getting baptized next Saturday and Wendell will be getting baptized on the 14nth of this month. I love these people I get to serve. Our teaching pool is growing so fast and we are finding a lot of awesome to share this glorious message with. I don't know if I truly deserve the blessing I get but I sure am very thankful for them. Thank you for all you do. I love you and have an amazing week. 

       

Love,

Elder haws🙈