Submit to ALL things

Hey everyone!

Like the past few emails there isn't a whole lot to update on. Just trying to learn and grow everyday.

This past week our mission president got a little mad at us because we didn't have a space to study in our house. Every room we have has beds in it (we probably have about 25-mattresses in total). So this week we spent some time and cleared all the beds out of one of the rooms and made a study room. We cleaned it, put desks in and now it is probably the best study room in the mission. Our desks face giant windows that have a lot of natural light to help us not get sleepy and I bought a little febreeze thing that plugs into the wall. Gamechanger for sure. Haha now we have a clean open room that smells good to do our studies. And boy have I felt the difference. The spirit has been so much stronger in our studies and we have been feeling a lot better because of it. Wherever I live when i grow up I will make sure it has a cool study room with a big bookshelf full of books and a big spacious desk. Oh of course I cant forget to put a febreeze thingy in the wall to make it smell good as well haha.

Other than that, we have been trying to find more people in our area. With everything that goes on it is definitely hard to find success but we just need to keep going at it. There's no other option.

One testimony I grew this week is the power the scriptures have to help specifically with the problems we have. Normally every week I send our President a weekly report of all the missionaries who write their weekly letter to him and include the excuses of the ones who didn't write him. Well last week, with all of the movement for transfers, people going home, people entering and the leadership council, I didn't do it. Our president kind of got on me for not doing it and I told him that I didn't have time last week to do something as minuscule as that. He told me, "Well I expect you to make time for it." That kind of got to me and I was pretty frustrated. Well that same day I read Mosiah 3:19 which says:

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."

That scripture hit me hard. I think God wanted me to read that scripture. I realized I need to be willing to do whatever God or my mission president sees fit to have me do. Maybe this week we can all work on this, on being more willing to submit to whatever trial, problem or errand God sees fit to give us. By doing so the atonement will be able to change us for the better and help us put off the natural man.

Love y'all have another good week!

Photos:

1. Investigators from Villa Rica showed up for a surprise visit! With Elder Cutler and Elder Nielsen from Logan

2. Hey dog how's the air tasting?

3. Morning pancakes for the boys