G'day mates!
This has been a good week! Wednesday through Saturday we were in New Castle for a Zone Conference though, so not too much to report on! But we have a baptism on Dec 5th so that will be awesome!
We had 5 investigators at church last week which was great. You feel so happy when you see the people you are teaching walk up to church. The mission is going great! This week we were really just going through the branch list trying to find people. So far we have tried to see 28 families and so far 26 of them have moved somewhere and 2 of them didnt answer the door so thats not too good haha.
We knocked on one of them though and this Korean lady opened and she was holding her daughter and we started talking about families and I told her there was 11 kids in my family and she was like ooohhhhh ohhhh ohhhhh too much! I love my family haha. People think my parents are crazy though! Big families rock though!
Our investigators are doing good! We are working so hard to find people to teach but not seeing too much success right now. It's all good though. Elder Quienton L. Cook said that the success is in the invitation so we know the Lord is pleased with our work!
I have been going through the scriptures a lot on my mission and I love them so much. There is so much in them that is just so wonderful and I cant believe I didn't read them as much before. I look forward to the times I can read from the scriptures now. They are so precious to me. I know this church is true. And that our prophet speaks for God. And God will never lead us astray. He is all powerful and all knowing and this is His church with His Son Jesus Christ as the chief corner stone of it.
I made a batch of cinnamon rolls and took them down to zone conference and gave one to President and Sister Checketts and everyone in my district, and then I opened it up to everyone in the zone, and they were devoured in seconds haha. Everyone was so amazed that I cooked them! They say I have to make more next time haha. Those things are good.
I love feeling the Spirit in my life. As a missionary I am blessed to be doing things all day that bring the Spirit into my life. It's such a comfort to receive witnesses from the Spirit. Because that's where true knowledge and testimony come from. Seeing is not believing. It wasnt for Laman and Lemuel, it wasnt for the Nephites time and time again. It wasn't even for Alma the younger who did see an angel. He said so himself in Alma 5:46 i think. Where he said "and how do ye suppose I know of their surety?" and then he says "I have fasted and prayed many days to know the truth and the Spirit has manifested the truth of it unto me". He didn't say "I saw an angel and it shook the earth". He says he prayed and received a spiritual witness that it was true. We can all have that. Like alma said in Alma 32:26, we just need to have the desire to know and then plant the seed, to exercise a particle of faith until we can make room in our hearts for more truth.
I love you all! Have a smash week,
Elder White
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