Hey Yall what's up
We just had an amazing week here in bend so many miracles! We had a bunch of lessons with Nathan and Destiny this week, we even did service for them for about 4 ours on Saturday. But its been an awesome journey for them, they've completely changed their lives in just a few months so that they could join our church and raise their kids in it. And its been such a blessing to watch it all happen, they will be getting baptized during general conference because they want me to be there and I told them I'll probably get transferred so we had to squeeze it in.
We had a couple lessons with Keaton and Melanie as well, they're so awesome they aren't quite ready to come to church yet but they love the lessons and were still Keaton boys so we will keep working with them.
We met with kelsey on Friday and she's been taught everything were supposed to teach and she wants to get baptized but she had something that made it so she couldn't. But that thing went away this morning! So were super excited for her and her daughter kadence, they are getting baptized on the 11th.
We had stake conference this Sunday and two of the 70 were there to speak. One of them had the thickest accent. So I couldn't understand anything he said but I could still feel the spirit coming from him. We got a new stake president and I called who it was gonna be Ike 3 months ago and I was right. It's funny because him and his wife both graduated from lehi.
Im gonna write a spiritual thought because im feeling spiritual and I read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John this week. There's some really good stuff in there but a couple things stood out to me. In mark, Christ heals a man's son, who is possessed by an evil spirit. He goes to his house and tell him "all things are possible to him that believe" and the man says " help thou mine unbelief".
It stands out to me because I remember when I was there, we all have doubts at times, and our faith is always growing its a life long process. I remember when I needed help believing, I asked God this same thing, to help me believe. And ive always been able to feel and hear the spirit really well, maybe not always the best at listening to it haha but I could aways hear it. And so I would do the things that help me feel the spirit, because that's how we learn truth is through the spirit.
We were talking one of our youth last night and he told us that hes been struggling with doubts. And it made me think of when christ went into Gethsemane, he told Peter, James, and John to pray so that they won't enter into temptation. I think that's so powerful because when we're in sincere prayer with our father in heaven we have protection from the evil around us.
And it looks different for everyone, if you have doubts all you need to do is feel the sprirt. Do what you need to do to feel the spirit. Maybe that's the temple, maybe its scripture study, maybe its a hike in the woods. The devil will tempt you to not do these things. Life is hard sometimes I wonder why this life is so hard even while im out here serving the lord. But why would it be easy for me, when it was never easy for him? He was homeless, one of his closest friends betrayed him, and his closest friend denied him 3 times when it mattered most. He was alone so that we never have to be alone.
Hopefully that wasn't too much!
Have a great week yall
Love Elder Nelson🫶
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