Hey guys hope everyone is staying safe with the fires and the hurricane. And I guess if you're really bored you can go ahead and read this. This week was actually really fun and was just about as opposite as last week as you can get. Now most trials don't disappear quite so suddenly but I thank Heavenly Father for showing me just how fast he can do it.
This week our investigator Lisa invited her husband to join the call with us because meeting with us has helped her so much. Well he loves us as well now and we had some amazing lessons with them this week. They are working on getting their daughter and son in the call as well!
Also thank you to my mom for the clutch by sending me Bang! (for those who don't know it is an old west game involving shooting everyone) over Amazon. We have immensely enjoyed a new game here and just to spice it up we all talk in western accents to give us some amazing laughs. In fact most days we will just talk in the accent for random stuff. Then on Friday we had zone conference which was awesome but also Elder C got a package he was supposed to have gotten for his birthday last week but didn't. Inside held a variety of gifts but the one that had the most impact was the balloons that his mom placed inside. So yes that night we spent an hour and half making balloon animals and jokes and it truly was one of the best nights of my mission.
I loved this week because it shows that when you're working hard and everything seems to just be going wrong, sometimes you just need to keep going until it starts going right. But in those times we also need to be looking for little ways to improve. Something I loved this week was about the people of Ammon. The courage for them to willingly surrender their sins to the Lord was incredible but the fact that they would rather die than pick up those sins again is so cool. Sometimes we have things we want and we know it isn't what God wants but when we are willing to surrender those things to the Lord, he will bless us. Remember Mosiah 2:22 "And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you." God wants us to keep his commandments so he can bless us. And if we are willing to show our commitment like the people of Ammon amazing blessings will follow. As always I'm praying for Y'all and I hope you're doing well
-Elder Pettingill
Pics
-my flower I made out of balloons (sorry it's the only pic I got)
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