Goooooood
morning Arizona! Well my time is short
this morning, we got roped into helping a companionship of sisters move into
their new apartment this afternoon, so I've gotta be lickity split about this! Why someone chose to move on p-day? Beats me.
It was great
to hear from everyone though! B dog, sounds like you're going to be the next
David Archuletta atta kid!! whooo rahhh!! Really though that's great to hear
that people are recognizing the talents that you've got! Let em shine sonny let em shine! Mom and Dad it sounds like you're busy as
ever! Isn't it great though to have
something to do? Haha and yes Mom, I've
lost count how many times I've walked into a house and it has reeked to high
heaven. It's terrible too but I've
started to get used to the smell of smoke as well. That's something that I won't miss that's for
sure. Austin the decals are still working great for me. I'll let you know if I
ever have any other ideas for them or some orders of the same one.
This week we
was a good week. It wasn't without it's bumps and bruises, but it was still a
good week. We had our zone conference
and that was great. We received some
wonderful council and guidance on ways we can improve our missionary efforts
and also rely on the Lord. President Walkenhorst gave a training on the Atonement and Sister
Walkenhorst gave a training on relying
on the Lord. Her main message that hit
home with a lot of missionaries was rather than pray to have our circumstances
be changed for us, pray to have to capacity and ability to change our
circumstances ourselves. It really
helped because it shifted the mentality of "God will do all the work"
to "I'm going to do all I can, and God will strengthen me all along the
way."
We received
a referral this week from another companionship in the zone for a man named
Eric, who has some wonderful desires and potential. He just got out of gang life and moved from LA
to here. He's looking to change his life
and wants to be baptized and pattern his life after Christ. We visited with him once for a short while,
and haven't been able to get back since, but we do have a appt set up with him
for Wed, so we're excited for that!
Last night
we an awesome lesson with a couple named Matt and Alli. We visited with Matt about a month ago and
taught him the restoration, and have struggle since to sit down with the both
of them, until last night! We re-taught
the restoration since it was Alli's first time visiting with us. She took to the Book of Mormon really well. You could tell she was interested and excited
to learn how reading the B.o.M could benefit her in her life. We also put an emphasis on prophets and
general conference coming up this weekend, and they committed to coming to at
least 1 session of general conference! So they're another family we're really excited
for.
Another
quick update, tonight we're going to the Shinn family and laying it straight
with them and we're going to set a date with Seth and Emily for the 31st of
May. I know it's a ways away, but the
hope there is that there's enough time in there that it'll give Br. Shinn the
motivation to get married within that time so that he'll be able to receive the
priesthood! So if you could keep a prayer
in your heart today for our lesson tonight that would be much appreciated :)
Last but not
least, this week I've been studying a lot about humility. Heavenly Father has been trying to teach me
over and over that when things aren't going right, the only thing you can
control are your own actions. You can
either act or be acted upon. In Chp 6 of
PMG, under the Humility section, it references you to Alma 32:1-16. This is
where Alma and Amulek go and preach among the apostate Zoramites. He's preaching to a multitude, who aren't
listening, when a man from another group, who was poor in heart, asked,
"what shall these my brethen do?" vs 6 specifically says "And
now, when Alma heard this, he turned him about, his face immediately towards
him, and he beheld with great joy; for he behold that their afflictions had
truly humbled them, and that they were in a preparation to hear the word."
I know that as we seek to humble
ourselves, and allow of "afflictions" to humble us, we will be
prepared to hear the word of God, which then has the power to inspire us and
motivate us to take the actions necessary that can help us change our situation
and control what is within our control. There's
lots more I wish to share, but the sisters are calling us and we're needed to
help move now. I love you all and you're in my prayers!
Love,
Elder
Traasdahl
I wasn't sure if I sent this one home or not last week, but it was from the wedding a few weeks ago as well. They asked us to do a crazy picture, and I didn't know what to do...
President Walkenhorst standing next to our stake president, President Satterwaight
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