Hey Everyone!
This week was pretty dang good, with the weekend being quite exceptional. So... I'm probably going to focus on that part of the week for this email! Hopefully you all had a better Valentine's day than I did, since as a missionary we don't really have time to celebrate holidays like that... or most any holiday except Christmas and Thanksgiving ;) But, it was still pretty neat as it was the start of a fantastic weekend!
On Friday, I got to do an exchange with Elder Ott, and he's a fantastic missionary! I learned a ton, and we got to see a couple less actives before dinner with one of the exciting families in the ward! They fed us homemade pizza, and it was super tasty, and made me quite glad that there are such awesome people out here. That night we got to go out to see Tom, and had a pretty awesome visit with him focused on the atonement and how to use that in our daily lives.
Then on Saturday, we had a pretty packed day! We started out helping a family move, which was super fun as they had a good amount of help there and lots of things to move so our effort was well used. Then we had an extremely tasty lunch with another awesome family in the ward (they were busy that night so they did lunch instead of dinner), before going out to see Brother Grant, probably our favorite investigator. He's got a nice property, and quite a few horses so each Saturday we go up there and help him move some feed and hay around for them, before sharing a message with him. His wife, Sister Grant, is a member and she's pretty awesome as well, so it's always a blast. This week we got to help them put some fence posts in, as the weather was super nice and we had a little extra time since we didn't have a dinner appointment. Then we had an awesome lesson with them about the plan of salvation and temples and the importance of keeping commandments, so it was a fantastic day.
Sunday came and went like a blur, as we started out with part of our studies before church, and they rest after, with an awesome church service between! The Grants, Smiths, and Brother Harvey all came out to church, and it was just an awesome day! Sacrament was really focused on temples (we had a counselor in the temple presidency there), so we were glad for the discussion we had with Brother Grant the day before. After church we had lunch with the Bighams, which was super tasty and good. Then we finished our studies off... and by that point it was pretty much time for dinner! We did go out and try to see a couple people since we had about a half hour of wiggle room, but nobody answered :( We had an awesome dinner with the Lemmons, but since they live way out there it took up most of our night... so by the time we got home it was almost time to start planning... so it was a dang good Sabbath day!
This week I read a couple fantastic talks, the first being "Stand ye in Holy Places" by President Harold B. Lee. The other was "But If Not..." by Elder Simmons of the Seventy. But, I focused a lot of my study time in the scriptures, and so I have quite a few this week that y'all might want to check out. If you have any thoughts related to them, let me know as I quite enjoy hearing what others have to think about scriptures I like.
So, the list for this week!
- 1 Nephi 22:31
- 2 Nephi:
- 2:2
- 2:8-9
- 2:30
- 5:10,27
- D&C
- 29:5-7
- 29:49
- 30:11
- 33:8-10
- 35:5-6
- 35:12
- 36:5-7
- 38:23-27
- 38:39
- 1 Kings 3
- Isaiah 11:2-4
- 1 Samuel 16:7
When you consider that I have over 7 hours a week to study... this list could be a heck of a lot longer, but I usually try not to go too quickly ;)
Anyway, this looks like it's probably on the shorter side, but that's alright since we have quite a bit to do today. But, I hope you all have a fantastic week! Love ya!
'Til Next Time,
Elder Jordan Nielson
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