I rejoice with you the gospel of Jesus Christ! I thank you for what you do the more importantly I thank you for who you are!
This is probably been the best week on my mission yet! I just want to thank everyone who was in on the Skype call that I was able to do. It was so good to see all of your faces and to hear your voices. Thank you so much for what you do! 45 minutes is not nearly enough time to tell you everything that I wanted to. I know a lot of you had questions and I want to do my very best to answer them. If you have questions please email me and I will do my very best to try to get back with you.
This week has been really busy. We have a accomplished a lot and I feel really good about our results of the week. Here are the highlights of the week.
While we were walking through the wagon wheel, we were able to talk with William, Marsha, and Monica. They are some really humble people who I feel have been prepared for the gospel. We talk to them about how the plan of salvation can really benefit their lives. They seem super receptive to the message and we invited them to church. Unfortunately the member who was going to give them a ride to church fell asleep and was not able to drive them. We are going to try to follow up with them.
This week we were able to talk with Dexter. We went over the last half of the plan of salvation where it talks about the spirit world, resurrection, judgement, immortality, and the kingdoms of glory. He is really loving the gospel and I've been able to see him grow so much. I was also privileged to be able to provide him with the priesthood blessing that he stood in need of.
The hash tag for yesterday is #ServiceSaturday. We were up early doing service for a member who is moving to Ogden. Then we had our interviews with President Wakolo . Our interviews were amazing I really love our mission president. After interviews with President we were able to go do service at the Jacksonville Community Center. We moved 8600 pounds of food that day. They have gathered all this food through the community food drive that they had and it was in part sponsored by the United States Postal Service. Then, the United States Postal Service picked up the food and brought it to the care center. It was so fun. We were running back and forth putting boxes on the shelf and putting the cans in the boxes. Overall it was such a fantastic time. After service at the care center we went to the Olson's for dinner and helped tear out some of the rotted floor that they had. It was a great day.
Yesterday was probably the most bittersweet experience of my life. I loved being able to see my family and to hear their voices, but it was so hard not to be there and tell you all about what has been going on for me back here, and to hear about all the fun things going on back there at home. There is so much more that I wanted to talk about.
I thank God everyday for the amazing family and extend family back home. If it wasn't for all that you do I would not be here. I feel the strength of all your prayers for me and they do make a difference. I have a testimony that God loves us. If he was willing to answer a young, 14 farm boy with no education, then he will answer you. He has answered me in my times of need and I know he will answer you too.
WIth much love,
Elder Skyler Glen Larsen
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