This has truly been Phenomenal. I have gotten really close to my District. They are so amazing. My companion Elder Waddell and I really click and when we teach it's really cool to feel the spirit tell you when to start and stop talking. I wake up every day at 6:30 and go to work. I have never been happier than I am now. I have a clear purpose every single day and I work all day to achieve that purpose. To Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored Gospel. I make and achieve constant goals and technology is now a help to me instead of something that used to waste my time and be depressing. I would challenge you all to better your use of technology to purpose. Never just open an app and scroll, make a clear purpose even if it is to scroll, set a timer for 10 minutes and have the power to get off when the timer goes off.
I experienced multiple miracles this week. I was previously having quite a stress over my shoes as I was starting the Homes MTC and still hadn't found shoes that would work. I had put in over 30hrs of looking and still didn't know what to do. I prayed and god said just go on in the work and it'll work out. On Tuesday last week right after I sent my email I got a text from my shoe salesman at Nordstrom's that some shoes came in he thought would work. I went it sure enough they fit perfectly and the soles could be worked on. I went to Ray's shoe repair in Kaysville and he said that he would be able to get the Build up on all three pairs of shoes done today which is the last day before I go to Provo. What an amazing experience, when we trust in the lord and specifically in his timing he comes through.
Another crazy miracle that happened was Yesterday I felt like I needed to go to the Davis High Seminary and talk. After all, it's not common to talk to a missionary in seminary. I went in and gave a message about our identity. That as I went to high school the number one attack from the adversary was to change my identity to what I struggled with and the things I did. It isn't until you shift your identity to a child of god one of his miracles that life begins to have the meaning and love that is true. God will not leave any of his children comfortless. As I ended my message a kid walked in and sat next to the seat I was in. Throughout the meeting I had a strong feeling to talk to him and to give him my challenge coin. It looks like this:
I'm going to be honest with you. I don't remember where it came from but It seems like it was always there on my desk. For years on hard days and great days I would look at that coin and say I don't know how but I'm going to make it happen. It wasn't until Sunday on my Farewell that I realized I made it happen, the lord made it happen and now it has little meaning because It was achieved. So after a little bit of but I have always had you I went up to him and gave him the coin and shared my message again with him. I don't know why he felt like he needed to but he said thank you I'm Robyn Lawson's son and I instantly felt the power of what he had just said. Robyn Lawson was the school counselor who got me the services of counseling I so desperately needed. Counseling that gave me so many amazing tools to deal with life. That counselor taught me how to take a step back and let there be the possibility that everything is leading to something greater. To breathe to feel god's love in my life constantly and I owe so much to his mom. I don't know if he'll serve a mission or if he will lose that coin but I know that in that moment I had come full circle from someone who desperately needed help in High School to someone who was able to help some.
My Farewell was this last Sunday and that was amazing. Thank you to everyone that was able to make it, if you weren't here's an audio recording of the musical number and my talk. I love you guys and I'm so excited to go to Provo tomorrow and to serve others.
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