Goooddd
morning America!! It was great to hear
all of the exciting things happening this past week! Pops, I'm glad that you had a great father's
day! You should be getting a letter in
the mail in a couple of days, I sent it kind of late. Hope you and B-rizzle aka the new Deacon's
Prezzy Prez have a great time down there! B-ray, magnify magnify magnify magnify baby!
Mom, thanks for the laughs and love, and A-Train, "that's a whip
tho". Well I am smiling ear to ear
because I am loving my situation right now.
I am in the
Standley Lake ward with Elder Harrington. We are getting along great. He's had a hard time waking up his mission but
we're 7 days straight of waking up at 6 and working out!( with the exception of
yesterday). As far as the area goes,
it's something that I feel like I have a lot of experience with. There was no teaching pool, and the members
really didn't trust the missionaries at all. This ward was the first ward that I, as the
new missionary, wasn't introduced in any of the meetings. So we're hitting the whole member trust thing
and finding through our own efforts pretty hard. I have found that the simple question of
"as the missionaries serving in your ward, what are you expectations of
us?" has had a huge impact. The members love it and it's like an instant
trust/friendship action as a result. We
found two new investigators, Mimi from Checkoslovakia and Scott Allen. We had lots of fun getting rejected this past
week, these people are pretty pretty clever. So honestly I am doing
fanstinkintastic. I'm a missionary,
doing missionary things again! It's been
fun realizing that time's about up because it's given me great motivation to go
go go.
I have
learned that really submitting is the only way. Hel 3:35, Mosiah 3:19, 2 Nephi10:23-25, Alma 7:23-25, Alma 13:28. All
teach about the importance and power of submitting. All I will say is that this past week I have
keep the thought of "quit fighting and submit to God's will" on my
mind. Way awesome to experience the
peace of heart and mind and joy that has come as a result! This next week I'll be meeting with Prezzy for
one last time before he takes off next week.
I'm way excited. Well fam I love you all, I hope you are having a
tremendous time growing in your knowledge and understanding of the gospel
principles through study but also by action.
I will say
this. God answers "yes" to our prayers to give us confidence. He answers "no" to protect and warn
us. He doesn't give us an answer so that
we can have opportunities to exercise faith in him, be obedient to the
commandments, and act in accordance with the gospel principles. He expects us to use the gifts He has blessed
us with. The ability to know right from
wrong, and to exercise our agency. As we
move forward with faith and act using our best judgment and effort then we can
be confident that the Lord is with us the entire way. He won't let us fall if we are sincerely
trying to do our best with what we have been given. I love you fam. I Hope you have a tremendous week!
Elder Traasdahl 
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