Hello!
Well, all is
well here in Wilkes Barre. Have I mentioned how interesting of a place
this is... because it sure is! It's been quite the experience already.
Elder Sandberg keeps me on my toes, he's so good! Seriously 100x better
of a golden than I was - I am so blessed to have him.
This week we had a baptism for a man named Mike Hrinko. Great guy. Super proud of him. The service was great.
We have a solid
investigator named Teresa. We started a Book of Mormon class on Wednesday night and she came. She then came with us to the Priesthood Restoration site and then she came to the baptism on Saturday and then
to church yesterday! We are taking her to all these places and doing all
these activities--I think we forgot to actually teach her! She loved the Restoration site. She went and prayed in the woods while we were there
and she came out and said: "I would like to be baptized in the
Susquehanna River." She is super excited for her baptism on May
27th.
We are teaching
this family of four. The Bizzell family. The kids are amazing - just
eat everything up. The mom actually is in the hospital and called us up
on a private phone and said: "Elders, you are the only ones I want
coming here. I want to continue to learn from you. Will you come to the
hospital and continue to teach me?" lol - of course.
We also got
buckets against some homeboys here on the local courts here in WB. Elder
Sandberg and I taught them a few things -- not about the gospel, but
still some important things. Good times, good times. As we were leaving,
the guys were like, "Man, these white boys balled us up in church shoes!"
President Randall came and had a lesson with us in Wilkes-Barre this week - it was so fun.
This week I
actually began President Nelson's Six-Week Challenge to study about the Savior from the Topical Guide. I have learned so much. SO much. It's
amazing.
Neal A. Maxwell knows it all:
One’s
individual will thus remains uniquely his. God will not override it nor
overwhelm it. Hence we’d better want the consequences of what we want!
Another cosmic fact: Only by aligning our wills with God’s is full happiness to be found.
So many of us
are kept from eventual consecration because we mistakenly think that,
somehow, by letting our will be swallowed up in the will of God, we lose
our individuality. What we are really worried about, of course, is not
giving up self, but selfish things--like our roles, our time, our
preeminence, and our possessions. No wonder we are instructed by the
Savior to lose ourselves. He is only asking us to lose the old self in
order to find the new self. It is not a question of one’s losing
identity but of finding his true identity!
As one’s will
is increasingly submissive to the will of God, he can receive
inspiration and revelation so much needed to help meet the trials of
life.
If our hearts
are set too much upon the things of this world, they may need to be
wrenched, or broken, or undergo a mighty change.
The submission
of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to
place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give,” brothers and
sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
“If you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ”
^^ and that's it.
Love,
Elder Wilde
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