Another weekly

Hello there

This week was pretty decent. I thought I had a lot more to say but actually don’t have much right now. We got a piano in our apartment though which is pretty cool. Now our neighbor hates us even more haha

We just talked to a lot of people as always and it was fun. Had a lesson over facebook where the guy started cussing us out at the end and called us a cult which was fun haha. Also last P-day we went bowling!!! I didn’t say anything last week because I was afraid I might choke and then when you guys asked what I bowled I’d be embarrassed about it but I bowled a 167 so that was pretty good! Especially after not bowling for a long time. 

We had a lot of really good lessons this week (other than that one guy). Mark is doing great and will hopefully be baptized this Saturday if all goes well. We had a couple people ghost us too which was fun, but hey it’s all good. Chuck is doing great too. He’s actually reading the Book of Mormon for the first time so that’s exciting. Also another guy named Tracy we met wants to stop smoking and get baptized so we’re working on a plan with him.

Also this week I had a coolish experience giving a priesthood blessing to someone. For the first time when giving a blessing, I totally just let go of anything I wanted to say and committed in every way that I was going to say exactly what the Lord wanted me to say. It was cool to feel like I was being a mouthpiece for the Lord. So that was fun!

Spiritual thought for this week would just be that reading the Book of Mormon is essential to spiritual survival. We had a lesson with a girl this week who doesn’t have a testimony of the Book of Mormon and isn’t reading it. I’m pretty sure the two are correlated. We were like “well, would you like a testimony?”. Then I talked about how I didn’t have a testimony of the Book of Mormon, until something magical happened...I actually read it! She told us that she didn’t have time to read it but we were determined that she’s gotta have at least a couple minutes during the day to sit down and read. So we pulled up google sheets and had her tell us her daily schedule. She seemed kinda shocked at our determination but we went through her whole day and sure enough, we were able to find some time where she could sit down and read a little bit each day. I’m excited for her to get that testimony!

My point in sharing this is that we always have time for what’s most important to us. If reading the Book of Mormon isn’t important to us, we’re not going to have/make time for it. But if it really matters to us, we will make the time, and we will be all the better for it. So if you’re not reading in the Book of Mormon daily, you need to rethink your life a little bit. It will make all the difference

Honestly I really don’t have much else to say. But this upcoming week is going to be crazy busy so I’m excited for it. 

Adios chicos

Half of a sister mission - 9 Months

 Hey what’s up

I’m actually excited for this weekly because I have stuff to tell you guys. But this week was actually super awesome. I also hit 9 months this week. That’s half of a sister mission! Pretty crazy stuff

Elder Smith's Ankle

We were at the ZL’s apt a while ago for the night and Elder Smith who lives there has a big problem with sleep walking/crawling. He always wakes up in a different place every morning and it’s a bit concerning at times. So before we went to bed, me and my boi Elder Lewis went in and tied a rope around his ankle while he was asleep, and then tied the other side to his companions ankle. That way when Elder Smith tried to escape, his companion Elder Rust would be notified. Then the next morning we found the poor guy on the floor as if he was trying to crawl out during the middle of the night but was held captive by the rope that was tied to Elder Rust, who didn’t get out of bed. Just thought that was funny haha

Spikeball w/Elder Goodman

Just had to give a quick shoutout to @Elder Cole Goodman because the two of us destroyed the zone in spikeball a little bit ago. He also reads all my weekly’s without fail. What a guy

Wrong Referral

This week we sent a ton of referrals to missionaries all around the US. When they get our referral, they get the number of the person we’re referring and our number as well so they can contact us and get some more background info. So we sent a bible delivery referral and these elders accidentally texted us instead of the guy who wanted the bible. So I couldn’t help but mess with them. Our conversation is as follows (the red text is them and the blue text is me):

“Hey Alfred its the missionaries, whens a good time we can drop off a Bible?”

“rite now is good”

**they didn’t respond for a day**

“hey yiu still has my bible”

“Sorry we were pretty busy last night we can drop it off today if that works”

“wait”

“ate you mormouns”

“We're members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints some people call us mormons”

“do you do baotizm”

**didn’t respond for a few minutes**

“Yeah we do baptism”

“how can j do baprizm”

“We would love to help you, is there a good time we can stop by and talk today?”

“I alrwady read book of mromon many times”

“Thats amazing whats your favorite part?”

At this point, I was so excited. Seriously, I was bouncing out of my chair with joy. People say that a lot out here when we ask about the Book of Mormon. They’re like “oh I’ve read it”. And then we ask what their favorite part is and they say something like “that part where Joseph Smith wrestles the bear” or some nonsense like that. So these elders were calling my bluff, but I had a plan. I then created the most incredible response of all time. So following their question of “what is your favorite part?”, I said-

“all of it

but my favorite part is  in mosidh chahpter 2 3 and 4 whenn I read abotu king bejanmin testifie of jesus Chrost

so its all very  goos byt rite bow I am studying in alma 11 avout the nephite financial sistem and how it pertains to tbe authenticity of tbe book of Mormun and I find it very inresting. what is your favotie part?”

Pretty good eh? But then it fell apart. But sadly, as I was preparing to send it, they called me. I panicked. They were going to figure me out. As I was in this moment of shock and great alarm, I realized that if I didn’t answer they would hear my voicemail that says “this is Elder Wride and Elder Petrucka” so I went to answer the call, planning on just hanging up immediately after, but I missed it. So I missed their call and they heard our voicemail, exposing us as fellow missionaries. On the voicemail they left us they were just laughing and told us to give them a call back. So we were able to call them and get them the referral. But it was pretty funny! They said they totally bought it though and were ready to put me on date for baptism.

Who?

Yesterday we were looking for an inactive member family called the Owls. We went to what we thought was their house, preparing to ask them when they opened the door, “Is this the Owls?”. I then imagined them responding with “who?” and just died laughing. Get it? Because owls go “hoot” (and that sounds like “who”). Unfortunately nobody was there. But if they had said “who” after I asked if it was the Owls, I would have been like “ayee!! We found you guys!”. You might not get that joke but I thought it was really funny. 

Shelina!

Alright enough with the jokes and down to what really matters. Which is, as always, the people. 

So I’ve been telling you guys about Shelina for the longest time. She lives in Mexico, has been taught everything, and is way elect. I love her and her kids with my whole soul. She would have been baptized already, but the Elders down there are pretty rough. So it’s been several months now of me doing my best to teach Shelina without any help from people who live by her. I’ve tried contacting the elders several times about getting the information of members down there so I can connect her with them and get them at some video lessons, but the mexico guys just ignore me. 

So this week, I decided it was about time to just break into the system and get er done. So I had Shelina send me the zoom link for church down there. 

My initial plan was to sneak into the zoom meeting and then privately message everybody in the ward to get their personal information to get them at future lessons, however my plan was infiltrated when I saw that the host had disabled messaging people privately. So I decided to just message the host and get his information. 

I told him that Shelina is a non-member who wanted to join but needs some help doing it. He misread my text though and thought that I said that Shelina was a member already, so at the close of the zoom meeting with a ton of Mexico members, he called on Shelina to say the closing prayer. It was nuts!!! I was nervous for her but I knew it would be all good because me and her have practiced praying a lot. I could tell she was super nervous but she prevailed and did an amazing prayer for the entire ward. It was awesome. 

Long story short, we got the bishop at a lesson with Shelina and her kids and now the ward knows that she’s there! It’s amazing. I am so happy. So now it’s looking like Shelina will finally be able to get to know the members and go into full activation following her baptism. Pretty awesome!

Mark!

Mark is AMAZING! I love this man so much. We had a literal miracle at church with him yesterday that is probably too personal to share but it was amazing. I know that God is working on that man and y’alls prayers are working!!! We also watched the restoration with Mark, his wife (Sister Hunt) and another guy we’re teaching named Austin. The spirit was soooo strong during the lesson. I’ve watched the Restoration film many times on the mission with investigators but this time was the strongest. Mark cried and I got pretty teary eyed but contained myself. At the end we bore testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith and the Restoration. It was so powerful! I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God!

Chuck!

Another miracle was Chuck. This guy is amazing. I love him so much. It was his birthday so we made a short audio clip of us singing “happy birthday” on the ukulele. Afterwords he called us and was like “what did you do with the money?”. We were like “what money” and he was like “the money your mom gave you for singing lessons”. It was pretty good. But that wasn’t the miracle haha

Chuck has been taught by missionaries since the dawn of time and has never progressed or read the Book of Mormon. But at our last lesson he told us that he had read the chapter we left him, prayed before he read it, and taken note of the mentions it has of the savior. So awesome! He’s finally starting to see that all we want for him is to become closer to Jesus Christ through the ordinances of the gospel, which have been restored in our day!!

Other Stuff

We taught so many people this week, like I can’t even keep up. So I’m not going to into much more depth, but to sum up some other appointments, we taught a guy from guatemala named Bartolo who is a legend (he talks really fast but I understood all of it which was a miracle), a really sweet mother named Ashley who is super promising, a super cool street preacher named Andre who is also elect, a lady named Sabina who is super elect too and asked us to come teach her before we had the chance, a really sweet lady named Irene who says we’re super nice and wants us to start teaching her the gospel, another lady named Sadie who doesn’t seem as interested right now but is still super awesome, a guy named Tracy who is going through a lot right now and got emotional when we offered a priesthood blessing, a guy named Wayne who invited us to his bible study, and so on. These are just a couple of people we’ve had the privilege of teaching, and there’s still a ton more. Litchfield is such an awesome area. The Lord has got big plans for this little town. The people her are incredible.

Testimony

There’s a lot more I could say about funny things that happened and spiritual moments, but I gotta wrap this up. I want to bear my testimony to you guys that the Book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith was a prophet, this is the Restored Church of Jesus Christ, and that true joy and lasting happiness cannot and will not be found anywhere else. 

But yea overall this week was good. Some rough spots, but much better than the last couple weeks. I’ve been praying like I never have before and it seems to be working. I know I still have some rough weeks ahead but it’s in moments where you actually feel like you're actually changing someone else’s life through your message that it all feels worth it. I just hope the conversion lasts in the lives of those we’re meeting with. 

I'm thankful for Jesus Christ and His gospel that make it all possible

2 Nephi 25:26

"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins"

That’s all I’m gonna say for this week. Love you guys. Adios

Weekly

 Hey guys! This week was very interesting.    

Rough Night

I really don’t have much to say. One super interesting thing was that we slept at the ZL’s apt a couple days ago and one of our ZL’s snored super loud for like an hour straight. But it wasn’t normal snoring. It sounded like those squeaky/wheezy chicken toys that you squeeze and then they just scream super loudly. It sounded just like that except it was coming out of his nose. It was the worst night of my life. I literally shed a tear over it. But he’s my ZL so I wasn’t about to hit him in the face with a pillow like I would with my family back home. But yea that was pretty eventful!

Mark

We had some good lessons with Mark this week. During one of our lessons we invited him to be baptized again and then together we all got on our knees to pray for a date. It was pretty cool because during the prayer I had a really strong thought that May 1st should be the date. After the prayer nobody was saying anything and then I was like “how bout May 1st” and both Mark and his wife were like “that’s what I was thinking!” so it was cool. And I love Mark so much. He is a Man of God and I honestly feel honored that the Lord has allowed me to work with him. Please please keep him in your prayers! Like right now, just pause reading for a second and get on your knees and pray that Mark will be able to get baptized on the 1st. 

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people are like “we’ll pray for you” but like, are you actually going to pray for me? So whenever I tell anyone I’ll pray for them, I literally stop whatever I’m doing and me and my companion get on our knees and say a prayer. So if you guys would be willing to do that for Mark I would appreciate it. Prayer is how we receive revelation, and Heavenly Father wants to enlighten our minds, but he can’t if we won’t put in any effort. So yea prayer is important.

Chuck

Also we had a lesson with another guy named Chuck who is super awesome. I love that man. But he is a bit stubborn/lazy when it comes to keeping commitments. So at our lesson when he told us he hadn’t read the part in the BOM we left him, we told him we were going to leave for 30 minutes so he could read and pray about it, and then we would come back and have our lesson. He seemed a bit annoyed haha and said he still wouldn’t read it. So we just asked lots of inspired questions and it was good. We asked him to give us his word that he would read it before next time and he said he wouldn’t. But after bearing testimony some more and asking more questions to find out what his real issue is, he gave us his word that he would read it which was super awesome. 

His wife is a member and she texted us after the lesson saying that no missionaries have ever pushed Chuck in the way that we did, and that it was inspired. So that was cool! We’re excited to meet with him again this week. 

Dianna

We met this amazing lady named Dianna this week and had a really good lesson with her. She is the very definition of elect. She told us that she’s been praying for someone to teach her about who Jesus Christ really is and then she met us. So we had a great lesson on the restoration and she is solid. We are planning on inviting her to be baptized this week.

Other Stuff

We had lots of other lessons this week but those were probably the most interesting ones. Also this week I heard a rumor that my mission in the Dominican Republic is gonna start sending north americans over there so that was cool to hear. I honestly totally forgot that I was originally supposed to go there. So we’ll see if that happens soon. 

Also we got vaccinated this week! I got to back to St. Louis and see a bunch of old mission friends, including my dad Elder Morgan! It was good to see him again. 

Spiritual Thought

A couple months ago I was really frustrated feeling like the mission was changing me, but now looking back at the past 9 months I have changed so much and it keeps going. The mission has totally broke me and it’s made me a better man so it’s good stuff. 

Also for my spiritual thought this week, I just want to testify to you guys of the prophet Joseph Smith. I’ve been reading a book called “Brother Joseph” and it is so dang good. That man was a LEGEND. Every time I think about him I get teary eyed. I’m so grateful for what he did to bring the gospel into our lives. And God was so hard on him. I feel bad. He just felt like a failure most of his life and was constantly chastised. But really all of those trials were what made him great. 

I love and respect Joseph Smith with all my heart, but most importantly, I want to testify of Jesus Christ. My eyes out here in the mission are opening, and now there is nowhere I look without seeing the savior in it. He is really the light and life of the world. I know he’s going to come again soon.

That’s about it for this week. Love you all! 

-Elder Wride

Still out here don't worry

 Hey weekly-

Sorry I didn’t write last week. I just wasn’t feelin it 

Transfers

New Comp

People we’re teaching

General Conference

Spiritual Thought

Transfers

So I have been transferred from one boonies to another. Now I am a little over 2 hours west of Paris in a town called Litchfield IL. Not gonna lie, I was really hoping I would be able to go back to the holy land (Missouri). Half of our mission is in Missouri and the other half is in Illinois, but everybody kinda hates IL for a number of reasons. For us missionaries, the biggest reason for that is that Illinois killed the prophet Joseph Smith. 

But I’m getting by just fine and litchfield is a nice place. It’s a small branch but we have a really nice building and the members are fantastic. No tweakers to be seen though which has been a weird change. 

New Comp

My new companion is Elder Petrucka. He is....interesting. But he’s super obedient and diligent so it’s been good. We’ve been working really hard and seeing a lot of success. Good things are happening in our area. 

The best thing about Elder Petrucka is that he’s the first companion I’ve had really that talks to strangers without me making him haha. We both have no fear when talking to random people about Jesus Christ, so it’s been really good. Sometimes though it’s not as normal and natural as it could be haha, but that’s okay. We were at Walmart, and since conference was around the corner, Elder Petrucka walked up to this guy and said “Do you believe in prophets?”. It was the cringiest thing mine eyes have ever beheld. The guy looked super irritated and confused. After a couple seconds of silence he was just like “I’m….not……..interested”. It was pretty funny! But yea it’s been a good time. We’ve both been working really hard. Nothing is more fulfilling to me than knowing at the end of the day that I gave it my all.

People we’re teaching

So yea there’s some really great people here in Litchfield. We’ve had a lot of success finding and teaching. One of our friends names is Mark. He is so awesome! He’s been married to a member forever and has always gone to church with her but has never joined, but he recently had a dream or vision or something that he needed to get baptized so now he’s speedily progressing. 

Another lady named Kathie wants to get baptized after praying about it which is cool.

This other guy we met this week named RJ had a cool experience with the BOM. We saw him and some other people walking around in this field so we went and talked to them and long story short we taught them the restoration and gave them a BOM. We promised him the Book of Mormon was true and invited him to read and pray about 3 Nephi 11. Then the next day he texted us saying-

“..after we had our talk yesterday. I had a little bit of extra time b4 bed and I read the chapter 11. I woke up this morning with a bee job offer in another state making excellent money. I believe it was a sign and/or answering to my question last night. U was right, it is his book. I appreciate you both and I hope you have the same effect on others as u did me. I thank you for that. Now I am being rushed, I have only two days to get my things in order and hit the road. Prayers…”

So that was cool I guess!

But yea that’s just a small handful of those folks in this area. I’m happy to be here and I’m guessing I’ll be here in Litchfield for a pretty good while. 

General Conference

The biggest highlight of the week was general conference! I haven’t been that excited since avengers endgame came out. But when I saw the intro to conference and heard that guy with the deep voice say “welcome to the 191st annual general conference…” I started to go nuts and in my head I could hear the avengers theme. I love conference so much!!! The talks were pretty fantastic. Our ZL’s live in a members mansion so we came up here to watch conference and it’s been real nice. But I’m excited to get back to Litchfield and get the work going again. 

We had a couple of people say that they were going to watch conference, but after talking to them about it, I’m not sure if they really watched it. This one guy who we followed up with after conference definitely gave that impression. He said it was very good but all of his answers were super vague too. But I didn’t want to just assume that he was lying, so to know for sure I was like “how did you like the dancers?”. Then he was like “oh yea! The dancers! They were fantastic!”. I didn’t call him out haha but in my head I was definitely like . But it’s all good. 

Spiritual Thought

For my spiritual thought today I just want to share my testimony of the power and importance of temples. 

I don’t think a day has gone by in the mission field where I don’t think about how much I miss going to the temple. Looking back, my favorite memories from jr high/high school are easily when me and my friends would go there. Those were good times. I miss it so much. There’s just such a feeling of peace there that can't be found anywhere else.

I loved President Henry B. Eyring’s talk about temples in the Saturday morning session of conference too. There’s just so much power in the house of the Lord! 

So in the last session of conference when President Nelson said he was about to announce 20 new temples, I lost it. So amazing! I started getting very teary eyed as he listed the names of places where temples would soon be available. Just super powerful stuff. Temples are literally dotting the earth as prophesied. Now more than ever! And I have the feeling that this is just a small beginning of the temples that are going to come. Temples are such a blessing. 

So that’s it for my week. Hope you all  have a good one. Feel free to email me if you want 

-Elder Wride

last pic of me and elder powell

cool clouds

goodbye to my paris apt

me and elder petrucka

Jusqu'à ce que nous nous revoyions Paris

 This week was a wild one. Lots of stuff going on. 

I found out last night that I will be leaving the great city of Paris. I knew it was coming though. Last night me and Elder Powell were driving back from some appointments and as I was looking at those good old corn fields listening to Saturday’s Warrior I had a really strong feeling that I was about to get pulled out. And yea I was right. 

But yea Paris has been an amazing experience. I have grown so much here! Haven’t learned as much french as I thought I would though. 

So yea this week was neat. Here we go baby!

The Running Tweaker

Interesting Woman

The Refiners Fire

The Refiners Fire Pt. 2

Irthdayberb

Last Thoughts of Paris

Concluding Remarks

The Running Tweaker

Man I am going to miss tweakers SO MUCH! They are just the best.

So yesterday we were trying to visit some peeps but nobody was home, but we saw a tweaker out. We went up to try to talk to him but he was being all weird and when we asked how he was doing he just made a grunting noise and walked away. So we started to make our way back to our car, when I heard a nearby train whistle blow in the direction that the tweaker had started walking. 

Then, I beheld the most glorious scene of my existence. This poor tweaker must be terrified of trains or something because there he was, running away from the train, at full speed. Seriously, I have never seen a tweaker run so fast. Actually I don’t even think I’ve ever seen a tweaker run at all. They’re always just walking slowly in a zigzag pattern. But yea I’m really not sure what it was about the train that got to him but he was running for dear life. Me and Elder Powell were laughing so hard. 

Then right after that another tweaker we tried talking to told us to “get the f*** away” and it was pretty good. Ah I’m gonna miss that so much!!

Interesting Woman

We went to this ladies house and as we were talking to her she said that she put Jesus’ blood on the whole perimeter of the house which keeps all evil from entering. She then looked at us and said, “so you passed the test”. Not sure to react, I just kinda threw my hands up and said “yahoo!”. Also when she said that I thought about some tweakers that we know that could help us test that theory. But yea we taught her the whole restoration and she’s a great lady. I love meeting people outside of our faith who have a strong faith in the Savior. Maybe there’ll be some potential there! 

The Refiners Fire

This week was the most spiritually draining time I have ever experienced in my lifetime. I can’t think of another time in my life where I felt the power of Satan working harder than ever to tear me down. 

So I was up late just praying in my bed for strength. It was probably an hour or so of just pleading to the Lord for strength and guidance. After a little while I went to the other room to get a tissue, when the whole room lit up from behind me. My heart stopped. No joke. I was like “ohhhhh my goodness it’s an angel”.

I turned around slowly ready for like a Joseph/Moroni experience when I saw that Elder Powell’s phone had gone off for some reason and the screen had lit up the room. It was pretty funny haha. He never leaves his phone in there either so I would never have guessed it. 

But yea an angel definitely did not appear to me, as cool as that would be.

But long story short, I fasted and prayed for a couple days and got a lot of strength. I read in my scriptures like I never have before, clinging to the words in there. I can not adequately express how grateful I am for scriptures that lead and guide me on a daily basis. 

The Refiners Fire Pt. 2

So yea that was one challenge this week. Another challenge is Dusty. It is one of the saddest points of my mission. 

So as I’ve been talking about in my past emails, Dusty is just incredible. She is so elect and everything has been more perfect than I could have ever imagined. She was set to get baptized on Monday the 15th (like I talked about last time), and was super excited about it. She was inviting all of her friends and we were inviting all the members. Then after church on Sunday, right before her baptism, she got sick with covid and has been under a 2 week quarantine. 

So every day we have been doing video calls with her. We have been taking her food and medicine and all this stuff. We’ve also had members at almost all the lessons so she knows them all super well. It could not have been more perfect!

Then the other night, right before we were about to call her for another video lesson, she texted us saying that she doesn’t want to learn about God anymore and that she has unfriended us and the rest of the ward on Facebook. Me and Elder Powell were shocked. We tried to get more information about what happened but got nothing. She told us to come by and pick up all the stuff we’ve given her. 

So we both wrote her letters with our testimonies in them and dropped them off. When we saw her, she was crying. We and she both know that she wants to keep meeting with us, but the power of the adversary is so real. She’s been being beaten on all week and hit her breaking point. She said none of us did anything wrong, but that she just wants to be alone. It was heartbreaking!

I was super discouraged. But after listening to some Saturday's Warrior I was able to get through it. 

So yea I’m not sure what’s going to happen with Dusty. But that was a huge challenge this week. She was so close! But I continue to pray for her daily and I have faith that she will get back on the covenant path hopefully soon. 

Irthdayberb

Yea so it was also my birthday yesterday! Weird stuff! I honestly totally forgot. Even during the day while doing missionary work I would forget haha. But that’s exciting. Elder Powell baked me a cake and his mom got me a shirt that says “It’s my birthday”. It’s only good to wear one day of the year haha but I wore it proudly.

Last Thoughts of Paris

I have really truly loved my time here in Paris. I have learned and grown so much. One thing I have definitely learned is that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is what makes people happy. 

Paris is a pretty lost town. The vast majority of the town seems to be pretty depressed. The only people I have talked to here that are happy with their lives are those who have a belief in Jesus Christ (whether or not they are a member of our church). 

The reality is folks, that choosing the right makes you happy and sinning makes you sad. And that goes for whether or not you are religious or anything like that. Happiness comes from obedience from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sadness comes from disobedience. And that’s because our spirits long to progress, even if we feel that our bodies sometimes don’t. You will always be happiest as you are faithful. “Wickedness never was happiness”. Never forget that! And if you don’t feel bad yet for deliberately doing things contrary to the commandments of God, don’t worry. You will.

Alma the younger didn’t feel bad until the moment he realized he would have to stand in the presence of God, after which he said “the very thought of coming into the presence of my God did rack my soul with inexpressible horror” (Alma 36:14). So just keep that in mind. 

But I absolutely love the Paris ward. We have incredible members and I would not have survived without their help. I am going to miss them all so much. My faith has grown as I have literally seen how the Gospel is spread far and wide. Good stuff is happening before the second coming of the Savior. But yea Paris will have a piece of my heart forever. I have loved my time here. 

Concluding remarks

I would like to end with a scripture I read this morning in my personal study that hit really hard. Alma the younger is talking to his kids about the importance of living the gospel in comparison with how Nephi used the Liahona to be guided to the promised land. (Alma 37:44-46). It’s good stuff-

“44 For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass, which would point unto them a straight course to the promised land.

45 And now I say, is there not a type in this thing? For just as surely as this director did bring our fathers, by following its course, to the promised land, shall the words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise.

46 O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live; even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever.”

The journey can be rough you guys but the idea is simple. The Book of Mormon repeats this phrase all throughout it- “Inasmuch as ye keep my commandments, ye shall prosper in the land”. 

You don’t have to have a perfect knowledge! You don’t! You just gotta be faithful. 

I promise you guys with all the energy of my soul that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that. I don’t know a whole lot haha but that’s something that I do. We talk to people who are like “satan wrote that book” and it just cracks me up. The Book of Mormon persuades people to do good! It makes people happy! Just look at all the good it’s done in the world! So therefore, the source by which it came needs to be good as well, meaning Joseph Smith is a prophet, which means he saw what he said he saw, which means all of this is true and Jesus IS the Chirst!

I promise you guys in the name of Jesus Christ that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. 

Read, study, pray, and be faithful to the Gospel. As you go forward with faith, you will understand more

I could go on forever but I gotta hit up some spikeball and start some packing. But yup there’s my weekly. Hope you guys have a good one. Love you all tan mucho. 

Adios.