Week #88

QUICK ONE THIS WEEK.

Life is good. Elder Cooley is the best.

I am going on an exchange with ELDER DEMILLE this week so I am excited. WE WILL SLAM SO MUCH KON TIK. (Deep fried, of course)

This week I spoke in church about pre mission (idiot) Elder Devin Yost. It was fun. I spoke about healing and how the Lord wants more to heal us Spiritually than Physically.

Read 3 Nephi 9 and you will LEARN.

Love you all. Have a good week.

I have to sing sooooo much my voice is almost gone lol.

BYE

Week #87

Family and Friends:

I am TIRED.

Nothing new. 

I just got myself some Sushi. It was a roll with shrimp, salmon, and avocado. It had eel sauce too. Sushi is better in the USA. 

Monday: We played basketball in the morning. We had a crazy weird conversation with an old woman who just wanted to talk. Had a lesson with a recent convert, Sergey, from Southern England. 

Tuesday: We had District Meeting. Went to the mission office. We may have to leave our apartment. 

Wednesday: We went to carry wood from Jautrites basement to her apartment. I started an exchange with my favorite Elder Malmrose. We deep fried Kontiki. It was wonderful.

Thursday: STREET CONTACTING IN THE SNOW.

Friday: We went out to Jurmala and visited less actives. 

Saturday: We did service at the Soup Kitchen. We sang Carols in Old town. We did weekly planning.

Sunday: We had a lesson with Ju, a recent convert. We had a lesson and dinner with the P family from the USA. They are the cutest little family.

These verses are some that I came across today while studying in Ether 12. A footnote from verse 12 took me to these verses in Psalms 78.

35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, andgrieve him in the desert!

41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

God is truly and unlimited being of all power, but we, with our lack of faith limit his ability to bless us.

The Scriptures are pretty cool if you read them and live by their teachings. It truly is the word of God.

We had 2 investigators at Church yesterday and they are progressing well. Everything is going good here. I love Elder Cooley. He is my shining star.

I love you all.

bye.

Week #86

Family, friend and Erin Wood (happy Birthday!)

Hello, it is December.

I just noticed that I just stated a fact so here are a few more facts for your pleasure.

1) Latvija will celebrate its 100th year of freedom next year. They celebrate November 18, 1918, the day Latvija first became an Independent Country. 63 of those years Latvija was occupied by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

2) The City of Riga has a 50% Latvian and 50% Russian population (approx) and they all really dislike each other. The Mayor of Riga, Nils Uzsakovs, himself is Russian, and that causes problems among the people.

That is enough facts for today.

My week was good. An old investigator I taught my entire first 16 months in Riga has come to Church the last to weeks and is once again progressing. I am happy about this.

8 O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the devil, to rise no more.

9 And our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness.

10 O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit.

11 And because of the way of deliverance of our God, the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead; which death is the grave.

12 And this death of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up their dead, and hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.

Good scriptures from this week. WOO HOO.

Love you. Have a good week.

Week #85

Family, friends and Parker Seegmiller. 

I am very confused.

I hope you are all making good choices. That is important.

This week I have been a bit under the weather... BUT IT IS OKAY I WILL SURVIVE!

I will get a new companion this week. He is from Atascadero, California. He is Elder Cooley, the Best Elder in the Baltics. I AM SO HAPPY. My dreams are fulfilled.

Fleetwood Mac was playing in Pakastani Kebabs (sketchy little shack of delicious kebab meat) and I shed one tear.

I often wonder what missionary work is like in Argentina. Any thoughts?

These were my favorite verses of the week:

14 But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me—but he will show that he hath not.

15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

Great verses. He could never forget us. He gave everything for us.

Love you all have a great week.