The King of the Golden Hall

This week has probably been one of the hardest I’ve had in the mission. But it feels so good to have done it. I’ll dispense with the usual day by day format for no reason whatsoever so if y’all hate it, email me with your complaints.

So it turns out that sickness that I mentioned in the previous email might have been Covid. I continued to be sick all throughout this week until around Friday. I contacted our mission nurse on Tuesday and told her what was happening and she said it was either a small cold or Covid. I did not lose my sense of taste or smell so we don’t really know, but I am recovered now.

We had the funniest thing happen this week. We decided to stop by and see if a teaching friend we hadn’t seen in a while was home and after we knocked on his door twice we were going to leave. As we were headed back to the car he walked out from behind his house a greeted us! As we were talking and catching up with him, another dude approached us and our teaching friend introduced him as his son that was living with him. We asked if he was interested in coming to church and he said he was. Then his wife walked out and we asked her the same thing and she said she had been waiting for somewhere to go to church this entire time! After that, another person walked out and our teaching friend introduced him as another one of his sons and we asked him if he wanted to come to church as well. He did and so did his wife! So from just stopping by one of our teaching friends to catch up we we’re able to invite 4 of his family members to come to church! Fast forwarding to Sunday. We had 11 of our teaching friends come to church which was astounding because in the previous weeks. We had maybe 1 or 2 show up!

The Lord multiplies our efforts! Even though I was sick for most of the week, we were able to get so much missionary work done.

For a spiritual thought I was inspired to explain my favorite scripture from the Book of Mormon. Ether 12:30 (no not 12:27 you doctrinal mastery nerds) 

For the brother of Jared said unto the mountain Zerin, Remove—and it was removed. And if he had not had faith it would not have moved; wherefore thou workest after men have faith.

I love the scripture because it is one of the few instances in the scriptures where a mountain is actually moved. But the real reason this is my favorite scripture is for the second part, because when we do not have faith, we don’t recognize or strive for many miracles. But after we have faith, we are able to access the infinite power and countless miracles God has in store for us.

Farewell until next week and May the Power of God be in your efforts.

– Elder Ward