Dear Elder Summers, I felt prompted to write something to put on your blog. I hope you don’t mind. Today marks the last of the double digit days until you return. Tomorrow (May 21) will be nine days and single digits until we see you again. It’s funny, I have been counting down the days until you come home. The day you left the number was 735 and it seemed like an eternity we would be apart. The progress was slow at first. All I could...
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It was one of those weeks where nothing really crazy happened, other than it getting hotter and more humid here. On Sunday it was my last fast and testimony meeting on my mission. Which is bitter sweet. But It was a good time for me to reflect on everything the Lord has taught me throughout the course of my mission. As I pondered on what to say so many things came to mind, all the people I’ve met, all the things companions have...
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You. Are. Loved. These three words can honestly change someone’s life. Think about it, when’s the last time you told someone you truly loved them and cared about them, or at least told someone how much you sincerely appreciate what they do, whether that is for you or someone else. It’s the simplest little thing but yet we often forget the power behind our words. One person is all it takes to show you how much you...
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I went back to the question I pondered on in the beginning of my mission. It was the one I really sought out to find an answer to and that was, “What is faith?” Simple enough? “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) But there is so much more to faith than just that. It’s trusting that you will wake up the next day to take another breath of life,...
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Hey everyone! Nothing much happened this week it was pretty bland. Labor Day was pretty sweet, we bought a bunch of Kool-aid bursts and lemonade and went to the park and handed out free drinks and tried talking to people but nothing much came from it besides a ton of left over Kool-aid. We didn’t really have anything out of the ordinary as far as knocking doors, just a typical week. I came across a talk in the October 2012...
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