Message to the Granite Ward

Hey Yall! One of the greatest things I've learned on the mission is the nature and power of Faith. There's a quote I love that says "Faith and Fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose." The beautiful thing about God's plan and purpose for us is the role of agency. That we all have a choice. And we get to choose whether we will have faith in his existence, plan, and power, or have fear, believing that none of those things are real. Fear is simply when faith is placed in the wrong thing. The birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ can bring anyone hope, joy, purpose, and peace, but only if we choose to place our faith in Him. While we live on earth, faith will always be required, and faith placed in Jesus Christ enables us to live the most enriching life possible.

Week 94: 94%

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Gee, I don't even know what happened this week. We did a lot of service, and a few exchanges, so maybe that contributed, but it's been good! We put 3 of our friends on date for baptism, so that's good, but none of them were able to make it to church on sunday. Please pray for Fred Villegas and his family, Arya and Andrew Escobedo, and Ray Javalera. Fred, Aria and Ray are all on date for either November or December.

I've been talking to my mission president about when I'm coming home, and I still don't know the exact date, but it sounds like it'll probably be at the end of december. I got about 6 weeks left. it doesn't feel real. Anyways, I'm sorry this email is more boring than usual, I don't have much to say, but we helped a lady move, and I almost died because of all the cat hair. I love you all, and I'm excited to see everybody soon! I'm also super sad to leave the mission soon. It's so good here

Week 93: 🤙BYU vs TEXAS TECH 👈

So this week was pretty intense. Haha, It was so fun. I'm sure many of you already know that BYU played Texas Tech on saturday, and the game was in Lubbock, which is where I live right now. We weren't allowed to go to the game for obvious reasons, although we blitzed with the college park district, and spent pretty much the whole day (literally 7am-4pm) walking around on campus during the game trying to find people to teach. We actually got a ton of people's phone numbers, and it was great, but my goodness... It was crazy. The atmosphere was intense, and the aura we carried as missionaries was hilarious. Some tech fans said some pretty crazy things at us, but even more of them were actually super super kind. Had a few people yell at us, the sisters got booed hard-core, some elders had a beer can thrown at them, and I got bashed by a drunk dude. It was actually so funny, he said John 3:16 says you can't add more scripture, so that was goofy. It was a nerve-racking, but super fun experience, and now one of my fondest memories. So sad BYU didn't win though, but we'll be back for the next one.

Also Johnny and Melvin went to the temple for the first time and got to do baptisms for the dead. It was super awesome, and they had an incredible experience there.

We also get to do service at a food bank here in Lubbock everywhere, and they came and filmed us this week, and we were on TV on I think channel 11? So that's pretty cool too. Let me know if you see me!