Dear Family and Friends,
July
4,
2012
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!
I love you all so much and I don’t want you to
ever forget that! I know I can’t tell you in person but I have
grown to love you even more now that I can’t see you all every single day
or talk to you all on occasion. Don’t ever forget that I love you and
there is one person that will always love you and there is other who will never
stop loving you and that is Our Heavenly Father. With his help we can
accomplish all things if we are just willing to let him into our lives and ask
for strength and help throughout our lives. I know that our Heavenly Father has
helped me so much throughout my time here at the MTC and made it go by quickly
and now I am about to leave on July 10th for the wonderful world of Ukraine.
This week has been a little hectic because I will be leaving
on Tuesday, which is extremely exciting and I am so pumped to leave to the
Ukraine. My schedule is: I will leave Tuesday at 5 go to Salt
Lake and then I’ll fly to New York, then to Munich Germany and final to
Donetsk Ukraine at about 3 o clock! So that was the really big news that
happened this week.
So this week was fun but not a ton happened. The one thing
that I really felt was the power of a testimony. We baptized both of our
investigators last Saturday and we had the opportunity to bare our testimonies.
I know that there is so much power in a testimony and that when it is truly
from the heart and not pre planned exactly what you will be saying the Lord
will fill your mouth with what you need to say. I saw that in my life on
Saturday as I bore my testimony IN RUSSIAN. It was so cool to see that I can
bare my testimony and that the Lord will help me say what I need to say and I
know that is because I have been tried to be obedient in all that I have done
and I am giving it my all. I love this work and am so excited to get out there
and share my testimony.
One thing that is kind of funny and it always happens to me
is that my shirt always seems to get un- tucked. They call it duck tailing and
so people are like afraid to tell me, so when they finally do, after its
been out for a few minutes I un- tuck it completely just to try to be
funny. It is probably not that funny, but I think so. Ha Ha
OH we got another mouse in our room but I think that we sent
it over to the room next to us because they said they have a mouse now.
To end this letter I want to share what happened on Sunday
night. We have firesides every night and this one was like none other than
before. Basically the fireside was a member of the Seventy playing a role of
one of the people who was with Joseph from the time he was called a prophet all
the way until the time he died. He gave all of the accounts that took place
leading up to the death of our beloved prophet Joseph Smith and it was so
powerful. The thing that stuck out to me was that Joseph Smith received a
revelation about this man, I forget his name, but this is what the revelation
was "people will fall to the left and to the right of you and there will
be bullets flying round about you, but there will not be a single bullet hole
in your garment not a single one". So when the shots began to fly and
Hyrum was shot in the eye and then John Taylor was shot multiple times and
finally Joseph Smith was killed. The man who is telling this story is
standing in there with all these bullets coming at him but there was not a
single hole in him, the only thing was a little scratch where a bullet had
crazed him. That was so power to hear and it truly strengthened my testimony of
Joseph Smith and I know that he was a prophet and at the end of the monologue
we all sang Praise to the Man. We all stood there and sang and there was
so much power, it was ridiculous crazy strong spirit there.
I know that Joseph Smith is and was a prophet of God called
in our last dispensation to restore this wonderful gospel we have now on the
earth. I know that he translated the Book of Mormon and that it is the Word of
God. I know that our Heavenly Father loves each and every single one of us and
He knows us all personally. Heavenly Father wants us all to choose the
right and be able to live in his presence again. I know that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world and that through
Christ’s Atonement we can be forgiven of all our sins and be clean so we
can have the Holy Ghost in our lives always. I know that this church is true
and that we have so much joy from God’s church and that the lives of all
those who are a part of it can testify they have joyous lives. I am so
excited to share this joy and love with the people of Ukraine.
I love you all and so excited to get out there!
Love you
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