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COURAGE



Well it was a very interesting week this week here in Wilcox with a lot of different annoncements about the virus and different cancelations for the church and also the country and all that but we don't really know what's going on so we just keep going and doing missionary work and trying our best to limit direct contact with people especially the elderly and there is a lot of Elderly people who live here in Wilcox. We had a pretty successful week despite all that has been going on. We have been pretty busy so that's been good to try and keep our minds off all that's going on and Elder Hair is pretty funny so we've been having a good past week and I'm excited for the coming weeks and what the Lord has specifically for us! We had an opportuntity to do exchanges with the zone leaders this last week and I went with Elder Wright who was in Nogales with me my first 3 transfers and now he's my zone leader so we had a lot of fun and found some awesome really humble people. It was a little bit of a rainy day and we had about an hour and a half to go find in this little trailor park that's notorious in Wilcox of where all the spanish speakers went so we went there to see who the Lord was preparing to hear our message and we found some awesome people. The people here are so humble and loving to all people and it was super nice to be able to speak of the gospel and have them show true interest. The message we have is so powerful and special and i have almost finished my reading of the Doctrine and Covenants but I was reading secction 128 and from verse 19 until the end Joseph really goes off on what's taken place in the Restoration up and to that point in time and the way he words it is so powerful and his call to the memebers of the Church is in the 22nd verse saying

 "Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad. Let the earth break forth into singing. Let the dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King Immanuel, who hath ordained, before the world was, that which would enable us to redeem them out of their prison; for the prisoners shall go free."

I love what Joseph chose to say to the saints at this time because it's so true. If we know that these things are true (which we can all know by faith, dilligence and patience) then what do we have to loose in sharing this beautiful message with all the inhabitants of the Earth. This is what we have, this is our call. Courage, courage is what we take and The Lord will make up the rest. This is our promise that I have seen fullfilled countless times in my life and on my mission. Fear not of the things in the world or what man can do unto you for all will be right in the Lord in the end. 



We also went to the Methodist Church on Sunday and that was pretty interesting to see how they do service. We go to the bible study at the Methodist Church everyweek and they heard our church was canceled until further notice so they invited us to attend. Very cool experience. I'm thankful for the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we possess! 


have a good week, prepare YOURSELF for conference and keep the commandments!


Elder holman 



-Elder Wright and i on our exhange.
-Elder Wrigth with a goat that escaped
-The cake I cooked for Elder hair on his birthday and left in the oven for 5 hours!






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