That's nice about Carol Williamson, that makes me happy to know that she
liked what I said.
That's awesome about your girl camp I hope it's a giant success. I'm really
glad you like your calling.
Thank you sooo much for the BYU application. I will be praying to get in
:)
You're right dad is awesome.Tell Jake hi for me :).
Alright now about my week.This week has been amazing! We worked like crazy again. And yet again the
lord has blessed me and my companion in sooo many ways it is unbelievable. I
honestly love being a missionary more than anything else and I can't believe how
much stronger my testimony has grown since I've been out here.
First off this week was the 4th of July! We celebrated having hamburgers
for lunch and then at night we had a barbeque with our investigators and played
games. They're this family that is just perfect. I feel like family around them
and they love listening to our messages. And they have been going to church for the
last two weeks. We had a lesson with them this week where, we shared about the
word of wisdom and got them all to commit to obey the word of wisdom, and one of
the little girls said the prayer and in her prayer she asked God if we could
keep visiting them and if it could be more often. And I don't know I just felt
super loved. And I felt like we were fufilling our purpose as missionaries. I
could feel the love that they had for us, and the love that the Savior has for
them. It truly is amazing to be able to find families that change just from us two
20 year old kids teaching them about God. I've learned in the last few weeks
that God is preparing peple for us to teach and being obedient and diligent helps u
s to find them.
The Pope is visiting Ecuador right now and it's the first time in 30 years
that he has come here, so it's pretty sweet. It's pretty much the only thing
people are talking about right now.
Anyways, this week has been great, we have been so blessed and I just can't
wait to keep working here and helping everyone we find. It's crazy to think
that I have about 3 months left... and I honestly dont want this time to end.
The Spirit is one of the coolest things on earth, and before my mission I didn't
really know too much about what the Spirit was or how it worked and how to feel
it. I'm still not perfect at being able to feel it at every moment or know
exactly what I need to do in every moment. But now I know that the Spirit is
real and that God does answer us and give us impressions. I love a talk that I
think Elder Bednar gave where he talks about three ways that we get answers
through the Spirit. 1. Like a light in a dark room and everything is lit in
one moment. 2. Like how the sun comes up in the morning and little by little it
gets brighter and brighter until all is lit. 3. Like on a foggy day where you
cant see hardly anything infront of you but there is a small light in the
distance and you hae to just take steps of faith until slowly you get to the
light.
I love that example and it is so true! There is a mormon message that I
would love you guys to watch, its called "The Hope of God's Light and it's on youtube on the mormon channel and it is
awesome.
Love you all to death and hope you have a wonderful week.
Love, ELder Lignell
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