So Happy, Even In The Hard Times.....

June 8, 2015

hey momma bear!!!

well to be honest, this week wasn't the greatest week ever. I struggled a lot this week internally,  but through the grace of the lord in giving me my companion, he really helped me this week, prayer helped, the scriptures helped, everything helped honestly. that is why I am so grateful for this mission, being separated from the world and rising up to that level of spirituality like you mentioned, allows us to really overcome things fast. This week of hardships didn't stop me from working at all, I figured that I could just forget myself and my own troubles and just go to work, and that is when all things are solved, and that happened this week. I am so grateful for the lord in my life.  and that you are teaching about the great and dreadful day of the lord, and if we are righteous it will be a great day, if we are wicked, it will be dreadful, so maybe you could mention that haha. im glad that all is well and you are happy, and just know that I am happy as well, so happy, even in the hard times. So this week, the Lord helped us out a lot, but particularly in one way. During a calling session that my companion and I had planned, we were calling all of the people we met on the street during the past few weeks. One in particular was a man who we met on the eighth of may in a park near our house.  He was walking with his young daughter. We talked to him about the Restoration, telling him that the heavens are open, and God speaks to men on Earth. At the end of the conversation we invited him to discover this truth for himself by reading the Book of Mormon. We exchanged numbers, promised we would be in contact, then departed. Three weeks passed, and during the calling session I mentioned, we called him and he decided to set-up for a lesson with us. He arrived right on time, and we began the lesson. It had been three weeks since we last had any contact, but in that time he had read the entire Book of Mormon twice, and had a lot of questions regarding who we were and what our lives were like. We had a member on the lesson, and he told our friend how his life looked according to the gospel. All of it made sense to him, and all of our teaching was met with his open mind, and at the end of the lesson he said that he would like to find out more about the church, pray about it, then get baptized, so we didn't set a date for him, but he is willing to change and accept the Lord's commitments.

love,

Elder Summers

hey dad!

well it sounds like your week was pretty good, and full of all kinds of interesting experiences. im glad that jace got home safely, and that he is that weird missionary guy, elder bednar said something about that, he said that missionaries that go on missions come home and fall right back into the life that they led before, the same habits, everything. but missionaries that serve missions, come back and are weirdos, they just don't fit into regular society. so that means that jace allowed his mission to change him, he served the lord and it sounds like he did a great job at it haha, now he just has to get married and make bret a grandpa. so that is an interesting experience that you had there with the snake, and also your comment about good snakes being dead snakes just made me think of something. lets compare snakes to temptations, and some are bad, but others are way worse, way worse, and just like the difference of danger between a rattlesnake and a blow snake. one is terrible, one isn't that bad, but a snake is still a snake, and it is better to avoid them completely. so yeah, its weird that I just thought about that but whatever, every situation can have a gospel equivalent. 

love,

Elder Summers