First I just want to give a shout out to my good buddy, Zach Balch, who had a birthday last week. I hope your birthday was the best. And also to my good ol Brother-in-Law, Lyle, Happy Birthday to you this week. I sure do love you guys and hope you had and will have an amazing day!!
Anyways the earthquake here, I'm pretty sure you have all heard about it, was pretty dang strong. It's kind of funny because it usually takes something major like this to wake the people up and have them remember that there is a God and that we need to respect Him and accept His message. A funny, tiny story so we have a little church that's always open by our apartment for people to enter and pray or whatever. And I've never seen one person in that church praying until after the earthquake.
I had an amazing week this week. We had a bunch of appointments and I was so excited to get to teach this people. Anyways about everyday we had a lot of appointments and every single one got cancelled. Every day. It was super rough but that didn't stop us from working and we started contacting a bunch throughout the week. We were able to find a lot of new people this week.
One experience I want to share that happened yesterday. So literally every single appointment we had planned yesterday fell through. I started praying super hard in my heart that we could be led to those that needed to hear the gospel. Anyways, we started contacting and we found three new investigators! Literally finding three new investigators in one day and teaching three lessons is almost impossible and we also found an inactive member that we were able to talk to for a bit. It was so amazing! When we were walking to our apartment after we finished our day yesterday, my heart was just filled with so much emotion and gratitude. I can't even explain it. Heavenly Father does answer our prayers, but we also have to do our part of the work.
Anyways, I hope that you all have an amazing week and continue to serve our Heavenly Father in whatever way that may be. Good heck. I am grateful to be here and I'm so dang grateful for my family. I got to talk to my parents and brother, Kolar, for about 5 minutes on Saturday to tell them everything was okay and I couldn't help but hold back the tears. When I was home, I usually didn't want to see them and the mission has helped me learn how dang much I love my family and how much they mean to me!!
I sure am so grateful for each and everyone of you and your examples to me. This church is so dang true and we are in the last days. We all need to prepare now to live with our Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ again as well as our families!! Have an amazing week. Sure do love you guys!!
Elder Blake
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