Monday, October 27, 2014

Email received August 25, 2014

Hey Guys,

Sounds like a very eventful and crazy week. haha. Congrats to Steven and Chelsea on their return! I’m sure it was an awesome sacrament meeting! Well, here’s some of the highlights from this week. On Wednesday we were driving around and found a HUGE sports park. We went to go check it out. As we were walking around there was a group of people playing rugby. My companion’s reaction was like seeing a little kid on Christmas morning. He kept looking at the field and then looking at me with a puppy dog face. haha! I told him to go play. He went and played rugby with them for a couple minutes in his proselyting clothes. He pretty much showed them how to play. It was great haha. As we were walking away I asked him how it was and he responded “They’re pretty useless, eh.” haha! Apparently us americans are rather horrendous at rugby. We also had zone conference this past week. President Mortensen taught about the Restoration for like 2 hours. It wasn’t just the simple things that the missionaries and the members know about it, but he talked about it in the sense of the Abrahamic covenant, tribes of Israel, etc. All that Old Testament stuff that we love studying so much. :) It’s amazing how much we have, and how precise God has been in fulfilling all His promises made to them of old and to us.
Here is a miracle that happened this past week. We met with a family and did the master teaching. We left them with a commitment to invite one of their friends over for dinner. Yesterday at church the sister came up to us and was so excited. She told us that she had her over for dinner and that they had a gospel discussion. She said that she wants to come to church next week. We also are meeting with a referral from a member this Wednesday and are pretty excited about that!
We had a great sacrament meeting yesterday. One of the speakers talked about the conference talk by Elder Nelson about withstanding the spiritual whirlwinds of life. The speaker was a brother who talked about the spiritual whirlwinds he has gone through and how because of some of them he was inactive for years. It’s amazing to see how far he’s come and how strong in the gospel he is. It’s a common theme that I have been seeing recently, how the Lord will shape us with the trials we go through into much better people than we were before. It’s amazing how often His hand is in our lives. Especially in the moments where we don’t think he’s there or notice that he’s there. I’m grateful that He has always been there for me and always will be. I love you all so much. I really do miss you and think of you often. I left on my mission 11 months ago today! Crazy. Well, I hope everyone has a great week! :)

-Elder Steed

 we were walking by a park and some people were playing rugby, my comp was so excited to play. haha.
This kid is so funny! He loves wearing his "Missionary in Training" tag. haha!

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