October 24, 2016

Hey Guys!

Wow what a week what a week. This past week was probably one of the hardest weeks I have had on my mission. It was pretty rough but hey we all have them right? just gotta have the faith to work through them and remember that they will get better.

Well this last week Elder Wasden and I were only able to proselyte in our area for a total of 3 days!! There was an Elder in Portsmouth Ohio that was in the hospital so we had to go out there so we could help them out. While elder Wasden was in the hospital, I worked the area with elder Mcclune. he was such a stud and we had a good time together! It sucked though knowing that the work had to be put on hold in our area. I had a really bad feeling about just leaving our area alone for three days because I knew that while we were gone, Satan was just chillin in our area, messing with all of our investigators, and sure enough he was!

This past week we have lost contact with our most progressing investigators who was on track for baptism and all of our other investigators have been falling further and further away from us. so it was super hard to see how bad everything has fallen apart. Though it'd be easy to be mad about all this, its important that we continue to turn to god and look for his guidance. because with him we can get these people back to where they need to be. Its gonna take a lot of faith though.

My thought this week that I want to share is about the atonement. This past week I have had a true eye opener of what the atonement really is. with all of the struggling that I have experienced through out my life, I realized that Jesus Christ has experienced that right along side me and has made all those burdens light for me. and he does it for all of us. Everybody has a blank page, a story their writing today, a wall that they're climbing. Now we can carry the past on our shoulders, or we can start over through the atonement and make that burden light. It doesn't matter what regrets we may have or what we have done wrong in our life, Jesus Christ gave it all to save us, so that we can live with him again. He carried the cross on his shoulders, so that we could start over. I love the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the peace and joy it brings into my life. Though it may not be easy, it can be made light through our loving heavenly father, who is waiting patiently to help us. I know this to be true with my whole heart.

I love you all so much and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Wilson