Last six weeks in Winchester.
I cannot believe that this is my last transfer! I'm staying
as well as both my companions. I'm excited for this upcoming transfer! We
hopefully will have a couple baptisms. We have one person on date named Nick,
he's 18 years old. He's on date for September 7th. He is so awesome! He's
already talking about going on a mission! He is super excited to get
baptized.
I went on exchanges with Elder Clayton and was able to go
out with some non-members to outback. We both got us some surf and turff. My first
time ever having lobster! It was pretty good.
Stake conference was this weekend and it was super good it
was all about missionary work and ministering. Hopefully that will help the
missionary effort move forward more quickly!
This week we had around 16 people cancel on us! It's just a
crazy time of the year with school starting. Pretty rough but you get used to
it.
Something that stuck out to me this week as I was studying
was in Jeremiah. Jeremiah talks a lot about the children of Israel either
backsliding or following the Lord. I truly love that. Even in the Old testament
it explains that eternal progression is the most important thing to us
Jeremiah 13
"1 Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen
girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.
3 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to
Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said unto me, Arise, go to
Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide
there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place
where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for
nothing.
8 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the
great pride of Jerusalem."
10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which
walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve
them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for
nothing.
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave
unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord;
that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and
for a glory: but they would not hear.
I love this scripture because it tells us we need to cling
to the lord and he will keep us pure and undefiled. That's all for this week!
Love y'all!
