"My mission has been the best 2 years of my life so far".....Week 98

Hello everyone! 

So transfer call was on Saturday night. It was pretty cool.  We had some members drop off firewood and we had a fire in the back yard and listened to the call. I will be finishing my last 6 weeks in Hebersham! I was so pumped to hear I was staying. I love this area and these members so much.

Our investigators are doing great. We will have some baptisms this transfer which we are pumped for! 

This week was a little crazy. Some things went down so we were out of our area for a couple days solving some stuff. We got this old Samoan grandma to come to church though which was pretty awesome. She isn't a member but her family used to have the missionaries stay with them back in Samoa! She is crack up. Honestly she is the most cheeky grandma I have ever met!

We had a cool experience with one of the elders in our zone. He was feeling way discouraged and was about to call it quits and go home. We had a long talk with him. And he called us later on and said he had decided to stay out. It's been cool serving as a zone leader for the past 10 months. You get to work with so many missionaries and see them grow. 

My mission has been the best 2 years of my life so far. I have changed so much.  I like this story by President Spencer W Kimball:

 "Lord George had led an evil life. He had been a drunkard, a gambler, and a cheat in business, and his face reflected the life he had led. It was a very evil face.

"One day he fell in love with a simple country girl to whom he proposed marriage. Jenny Mere told him that she could never marry a man whose face was so repulsive and so evil, looking; and also that when she did marry, she wanted a man with a saint-like face, which was the mirror of true love.

"Following a custom of the day. Lord George went down to Mr Aeneas in Bond Street, London. Aeneas made waxen masks for people, and his skill was so art-perfect that the person's identity was completely hidden: As proof of his skill, it is said that many spendthrift debtors, equipped with his masks, could pass among their creditors unrecognized. Aeneas went to his storeroom, selected a mask, heated it over a lamp, fixed it to Lord George's face; and when Lord George looked in the glass, he had the face of a saint who loved dearly. So altered was his appearance that Jenny Mere was soon wooed and won.

"He bought a little cottage in the country, almost hidden in an arbour of roses, with a tiny garden spot. From then on his entire life changed. He became interested in nature; he found 'sermons in stones, books in brooks, and good in everything.' Formerly he was blasé and life had no interest for him; now, he was engrossed in kindliness, and the world around him.

"He was not content with starting life anew, but tried to make amends for the past. Through a confidential solicitor he restored his ill-gotten gains to those whom he had cheated. Each day brought new refinements to his character, more beautiful thoughts to his soul.

"By accident, his former companions discovered his identity. They visited him in his garden, and urged him to return to his old evil life. When he refused, he was attacked, and the mask was torn from his face.

"He hung his head. Here was the end of all; here was the end of his new-found life and his love dream. As he stood with bowed head, with the mask at his feet on the grass, his wife rushed across the garden and threw herself on her knees in front of him. When she looked up at him, what do you suppose she found? Lo! Line for line, feature for feature, the face was the same as that of the mask. Lines of beauty—regular features." 

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face. SPENCER W. KIMBALL General Conference April 1975

I feel as if my face has been molded over these years as well. I feel like I  have grown into a new man ready for whatever the world throws at me. 

I love you all,

Elder White

We had just taken off our suits and our tags were on them!
 That's why we are name tag less. Also this was just the beginning, we eat good in Hebersham! haha