Hello :)
Boy oh boy.. it was chili this week! We got some intense winds from sandy.. but that is it. No rain or anything. But it sure was fun biking in that wind. haha
Sounds like Camas is tearing it up in 4A. It's awesome. The missionaries here make fun of me for still keeping up with my high school. They all say once I graduated high school.. I graduated from everything a part of that high school. I think that's lame. I am proud to be a papermaker. Elder Huckvale does the same. We are the only two missionaries that are proud of our high schools I guess haha. Just shows how amazing Camas is!
I am glad you weren't in New York for that marathon ahaha.
Well, MISSIONARY WORK! Everything is still trucking along really well. We have someone on for baptism for the 17th this month, and then two on for the 24th. I am pretty excited! However, the baptism from last week didn't show up to church for their confirmation this week :( That was really sad. The first baptism I was apart of in Ocala. That man is second guessing. We are going to see him tonight and I pray the spirit will be with us to bring his testimony back.
Anyways, the biggest thing I learned this week is the power of scripture study. WOW! I have been studying the scriptures a lot more this week. It has made a huge difference in my testimony. I have really realized how true the primary answers are. You see great missionaries go home and go less active. It isn't because they lost their testimony. Their testimony is still there. They just don't remember their testimony. That is the trick, to always remember Jesus Christ and our testimony of His restored gospel. The best way to do that is through daily prayer and scripture study. It truly is powerful. Those missionaries who go home and go less-active, go less active because they forget to do the simple things. We get so caught up in more complicated things of the gospel because it is fun to think and explore ideas. But the problem with that is we forget the plain, simple, and PURE things of the gospel.
But that has been my week. I love being a missionary. It is definitely what I need to be doing right now. An Apostle said "It would take a man 40 years to learn what he could learn on a mission." I can't remember which Apostle it was : (. But that is super true. I cannot believe how much I have learned while being on my mission. It is a night and day difference between the person I was, and the person I am now. Hopefully a better difference :) haha. Im kidding, I know it is a better difference. Because I am now living the gospel.
I am sorry it is a short email but we have to be done shopping within an hour and head up to GVILLE!
I LOVE YOU
Elder Wise
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