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Good
Morning!
This week
was awesome! It was filled with long hot, muggy days of biking and preaching.
The grind. But it's so awesome. We worked super hard every day and
came out with some good results at the end of the week. We taught XXXXX, our
tattooed miracle boy, and HE wants to set a baptismal date and a date for him
to quit smoking! He's so awesome. We taught a new investigator, XXXXX. He is
just a senior in high school and he's a friend of one of the young men in the
ward. He's so awesome. He's got such a huge desire to be closer to Christ. And
that’s why we are here, haha. To help people be closer to Christ. We taught him
the restoration lesson and committed him to start reading the Book of Mormon.
It was so awesome. Great lesson.
Now that
I'm coming up quickly on ten months, I'm really feeling the urgency of this
work. The first year of my mission is almost over and I feel like i'm just
beginning! I still feel new to the field sometimes! There's so much I want to
do on my mission and I feel like time is running out! Is it going this fast for
you guys! I'm starting to realize how much of a lifestyle this is. I don't know
how I'll be able to let it go. I've never done anything in my life that makes
me happier or is more fulfilling. I love the Gospel. I love sharing it. I love
teaching! I love biking in the heat. I love biking in the rain. I love talking
to strangers, knocking on doors, and getting cursed at, yelled at and just
plain hated on. I love finding people who are searching for something more,
then helping them come closer to the Savior. The only way to survive out here
is to love it. Love it all. Love every single trial and person as they
come. This work is way too hard, way too important, and too urgent to
complain, whine, or be lazy. Even when the chips are down and it seems like no
one even wants to entertain my friendly waves, the Lord always gets
me through. Sometimes we feel like we let the Lord down. But it's not us who
hold him up. He holds us up. And He will not let us down. The Gospel of
Jesus Christ is real. In it you can find power, and solace. There's no
place I would rather be.
Love,
Elder
Sherwood
P.S. I love all your letters. I'm so sorry that
it's so hard for me to write back to you all. I'm always so busy on preparation
day! Just know that I really, really, really appreciate all the time and effort
you put in to your letters to me. They are a real blessing in my life and the
things you tell me are always applicable to what trials I'm going through at
the time. So keep it up! Thank you so much!
Mom
and dad!: thank you so much for sending those shirts! Some days I sweat through
two shirts haha so I definitely needed more. I'm going over to the Larsen’s
today to take in the sides a little bit like you did with my other shirts. But
they are absolutely perfect so thank you!!!!
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