WEEK 46 RICHMOND: Dream Team 🤩

We out here, and we absolutely cookin'! We got big plans this transfer, so it's time to hit the grind of a lifetime!

Starting off with last Wednesday. Last day of transfers. Last day of Elder Tompy o7  But happy for bro. He fought the good fight.

It was a good day though, got another adjustment at the chiropractor. Feeling so free! Had lunch with a member. I ate some quite suspicious things, but quite delicious. At the end of the day, I keep my mind shut, and my tastebuds open :) Had a mini CFM lesson with some members, it was good!

Thursday 

Farewell to the goats. Shoutout Elder Thompson, On, Fankhauser, and ofc Mother Flake. You will all be missed.

Me and Elder Wengert core-

It's gonna be so epic! We combined both of our old areas into one, so we got so many friends. It's pretty epic. We have daily lessons/scripture study with two friends Li Nan and Armstrong. They are both so cool and so spiritually strong. We just want to meet in person with them to get them on date!  

We also taught Mr. Gu, and boy ohh boy, was it an amazing lesson. Taught him POS and bro was like bet, if I wanna make it home I need - Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost, and stay strong. Bro is just the coolest!

Friday we had a chapel tour with our friend 蒋阿姨, she is so awesome. Super new to religion, but super open hearted! Got a s'mores blizzard. Straight heat . Well... I guess kinda the opposite... Finished the night with 老韩 it was pretty good, but unfortunately we had to drop him, he just ain't progressing which is really sad. 

Saturday we had infinite contacts, inviting everyone to church. It was insane. Had a lesson with Li which was just amazing. Him and our member Vivi are just best friends. Had a meeting we did at the church. And lemme tell ya...

The Tagalog ward was there. For a baptism. There were over 200 people there!!! it was insane! They also had a massive party afterwards, and them being them, of course "forced" us to get food. We couldn't deny them, so we dabbled is some delicious delicacies. Finished the night up with a good ol' meeting.

Sunday was great. We had a bunch of friends come. We are starting a gospel principles class now which has been super good. Sacrament was epic, Elder Flake, who finished his mission on transfer day (my trainer), was here with his family. So they all spoke during sacrament meeting and it was fire. We also had another missionary there who finished her mission 6 months ago. So it was good to see em all. Did infinite contacts again... Holy it's insane! Pulled up to a Fifa Festival and got given a box of doughnuts. So... win I guess! Then went to Chen 妈妈s to give her the sacrament. Our member unfortunately forgot the bread... But uhh, we had doughnuts..! So lets just say it was a very 'sweet' sacrament .

Yesterday was just crazy. We started weekly planning at 10:30, and didn't finish until 6:30. It was crazy. We had to plan for so many people, but were also able to go through and clean out the area book. It was just crazy. 

Today was one of the chillest p-days yet. Lowkey kinda nice. Got haircuts, shopping, thrifting, chillin. Can't complain much. 

This week has been so good though. Lots of finding, and lots of really good convos. We talked with and met a lot of cool people, so hopefully we can get them to church! God has been giving us so many miracles ii's so cool!

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Blessed

God is good!

I've been doing a Jesus Christ study the past month. I'm in the guide to the scriptures "Jesus Christ" and "Atonement" and it's been the greatest studies of my life. Would highly recommend

But the first thing in the Atonement section it says "To reconcile man to God."

I was like, hmmm, that's interesting. Pretty fire. So I went deeper and found another word for reconcile is restore.

Restore man to God.

That's pretty cool. Through the atonement we can be restored to our Heavenly Father and His presence. Pretty Neat.

But what's even cooler, is if we switch the meaning of God from Heavenly Father to just God (or Godlike).

Restore man to Godliness.

That's what the atonement does. Thats what covenants do. That's the whole purpose of us coming to this earth. Is to become like God.

That only comes through Jesus Christ and His atonement. As we access the power of His atonement we can truly be 'Restored to God'. The atonement gives us so much power on this earth. Because of Jesus Christ we can overcome Challenges, Sin, and Death.

Ain't that just so cool?

I think so ;)

o7

The Dream Team  

Best 2 years!