Hello all,
This week I met Elder Walk, who will be my new companion. He is from Nephi, Utah. He is a great hard-working companion and I have learned a lot from him.
Well, this was actually kind of an interesting week. I had leadership training for 2 whole days so there wasn't as much as we would have gotten done in this area, but we still did have an okay week. This transfer we are working on letting people know how they can feel greater joy through declaring repentance. Lately I have really gotten to know what the true meaning of our purpose is. Our purpose isn't just that we have a special message about Jesus Christ, or that God has called a prophet, or even that we know the purpose of life, but that through the power of God, we can help people change their ways and truly become the people that they have always dreamed of becoming, but haven't known how they can do so. We are here to help people become happy through the cleansing power of the atonement of Jesus Christ because "men are that they might have joy!" We are truly here to declare repentance and help people realize that God gives us commandments not to punish us, but because in his all-infinite wisdom, they will bring peace and direction into our lives. We have found a bit more success coming all our and talking to people about the Doctrine of Christ. It's really amazing!
We continue to meet with Levi. We used our training on helping make the commandments of God more personal to investigators and taught him the Word of Wisdom. Levi is interesting. He wants to change, but it has been difficult to help him realize that he can repent and change his ways. Maybe it will click with him soon.
We do have 2 progressing investigators. Amina and Rachel came to general conference Sunday morning and loved it! They wanted to stay longer, but didn't have time. So I guess we'll read some talks to them later. They are great!
My first district meeting was this week. We talked about how people truly do have the desire to change, but often don't know how or think that they can. So we talked about how through Doctrine of Christ that mighty change can come about and people can truly feel joy as we declare repentance.
Well, things in the Highlands are good. And yes, the Church is true!
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