So
to start off, sorry I've really sucked at emails the last few weeks. The great
Elder Hendricks chastised me so here's me trying to be better :)
This week was crazy! To start off
transfers went great! We got to be with elder Earl and Bredsguard both for a
couple of days so that was super fun. Honestly being in a trio can be a lot of
fun, it can be a challenge at times, but it's super fun!
Oh! At one point on Wednesday
while my companion was in Lovell running transfers, I got to teach mutual! It
was so awesome! It was a super spiritual experience getting to teach priests
the restoration simply then watch as they role play it with me to their leaders.
Other than that though it has been
a really crazy week! We have been teaching this family for about 2 weeks now,
the Quintana's. they have been definitely prepared to hear the gospel. While
they are struggling to remember things like reading, they have been coming to
church for a while now and are super pumped to learn the gospel! It's been
really fun to teach them the gospel and hear their crazy stories about how they
have come to know that the Lord is with them!
Also we have been teaching this amazing
YSA named Anthony, (by the way, serving in a YSA is the best thing ever, tons
of spiritual experiences) who is super prepared! He comes to church and
institute every week, reads the scriptures, and already knows it's true! At at
one point we were teaching the plan of salvation and as we finished we asked if
he had any questions, he responded with "no, I actually already learned
all this. I read about it on Mormon.org! He's
on date for December 31st so hope all goes well!
But this has also been a super
crazy week, due to some crazy weather, president closed down the mission for a
couple of days, and that was around the same time that the heater in our
basement went out! Thankfully we got it fixed by Saturday, but then that night,
the wind blew a door open and our house alarm went off. The funny thing is
being in the basement we couldn't hear it. So instead of waking up to an alarm
we woke up to a bunch of police shining flashlights around yelling Powell
police! Kind of a fun experience!
Yes I did survive the cold, it was freezing, but I survived! And I only lost an ear! :) In fact it was actually so cold that both friday and
saturday our mission president called the mission and told everyone to stay
inside! Of course being the completely obedient missionaries we are we went and
helped someone move into the ward friday morning during the blizzard. How we
all survived I will never know. My favourite quote was after we had just
finished unloading the trailer and they told us that they still had another
storage unit, with a piano. :) It was good though. We all laughed about it and
we all survived. Thank goodness for 4 wheel drive though. I have no clue why
the Lord has made me designated driver in both winters. He must be preparing me
to live in someplace with snow. I hope not. I'm staying close by family in
Gilbert.
Oh my goodness I loved being in primary. My companion told me that he can't wait to hear
from me when I get home and find out that after a couple of weeks I was called
as a primary teacher. :) Not going to lie, it would be fun! We got to help out
again this week and it was amazing! They just have a serious lack of teachers
this time of year, and as long as we don't pick up any of the kids or let them
sit on our laps we are totally allowed to!
We do have some fun plans this Christmas! I get to talk to
you guys! :) We also have a bunch of members that we are going to go see :) Oh
and I just found out that we may or may not be moving apparently after
Christmas. The stake wants other members to have the experience of housing
missionaries and apparently the Jeide's have been housing missionaries the last
year and a half. The high councilor over missionary work, the father
of the family that found my Ipad, Is thinking of having us move in with the
Akins. That's the family that we went over to on Thanksgiving and I got to play
a viola! I am a little excited about that!
Anyways I just want to quickly
finish off with my Savior of Jesus Christ. I was reading in Mosiah 3 this
morning and wow. In that chapter a king named King Benjamin gathers all of the
people in his nation so that he can speak his final words to them as he knows
that he is going to die soon. And to me one of the most powerful parts of his
speech is his testimony of Jesus Christ. He proclaims boldly that by no other
name can we be saved. And that is something that, brothers and sisters, I know
to be true. I know that our Savior lives, and that through Him all mankind may
be saved. I love Him and I know that we can all come to know Him! I have truly
seen His hand in my life more as I read about His ministry in the Bible and
Book of Mormon.
I love you all!
Never give up, Never
surrender!
-Elder Berrett
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