God is Good!!!!

Hello Family and Friends!!!!

This week has been just super amazing!!! I AM FINALLY OUT ON THE MISSION!!! I love talking to people!! It's fun to listen to people’s stories and make jokes with them!! But most importantly, I love sharing the gospel I love it so much!! It's so cool to share the truth!! I just wish everyone would accept it but it's their agency! 

This week has been super fun tho! I really love my companion and my trainer!! His name is Elder Cox and he is from St George and he is a country guy!! He is super funny and we have such a fun time!! He and I have a lot of similar stories!! He really enjoys teaching with me and I really enjoy teaching with him!! He is an amazing missionary and he is a lot like me! I know if I just work on a couple of things I can be just like him!! One of my favorite things is to testify of Christ and the Book of Mormon!! I love people’s faces when the spirit hits them!! 

Ok so this transfer is a little crazy!! I got my companion on the first real day here and it's been great.  We both got put in a new area (Brandon, Florida) and we have just been working on contacting new people! But the reason it is crazy is because the area right next to us is Valrico and one of the missionaries in that area needed to go home and get surgery so his companion is now with us!!  Yesterday, on Sunday, he left and so now I am in a Tripanionship and we cover two areas- both Brandon and Valrico!!  So it’s super interesting!  My first area is two areas!!  Kinda cool huh?  We call ourselves the Three Amigos or even sometimes the Three Nephites!! My other companion is Elder Jarrett! He is pretty cool and he is a great teacher and super fun to be around!! 

It has been interesting to see how the Lord really does prepare people!!  We got a referral from the Sister Missionaries that get online calls and they told us about this guy named Gregory! Gregory is the most prepared person!  He was actually my first lesson I taught out here!!  We taught the Restoration to him and it was super amazing!!!  He answered the questions like perfectly!  It was almost like teaching a member who already knew about the Restoration and was just trying to go along with it!  BUT IT WAS REAL!!!  He is super amazing and he even got a new job and told his boss that he can't work on Sundays so he could go to church with us!!! He is crazy amazing! He even told us when he could be baptized in the middle of our lesson!! It was crazy!! I just wanted to give him the biggest hug!! It's was pretty funny because at the end when we bore our testimonies, he said, "I don't need convincing. I just want to learn more and understand it!" It was pretty funny and he is a super cool guy!! We have met some other people here that are amazing as well!! 

I am so grateful to know how to receive answers to my prayers!! And I’m so grateful for the knowledge of Christ's gospel!!  We talked to an atheist the other day who wanted truth but didn't want to get it from God!  He was stubborn and didn't really care for our message!!  But something else that happened with another person we met was when we were talking to a Christian who said he knew God and Christ and that he was saved! This of course was awesome but he didn't understand that God can still give us knowledge to help us in our life.  We gave him a pamphlet that talked about this and that could help him and he totally gave it back to my companion.  I got this burning sensation and I was overcome with the Spirit.  I got a sudden jolt of just boldness and I grabbed the pamphlet and I opened it up.  I explained it to him and bore my testimony of it and I said if he really believed in God, than he needed to ask Him if it's true.  I testified that God would answer him if he tried!!  After my speaking to him, he just took the pamphlet from my hands and began to talk to us more. I don't know if he really read it after we left because he was just a street contact guy we met but it was super cool to be overcome with the Spirit and just completely talk by the Spirit!! So it was a cool learning experience!! 

Yes the weather is amazing!! The winter is amazing to be down here!! The summer is probably going to stink but it's good right now!!

Alright, I love you all!!!  And have an awesome week!!! For those who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:  share the Restored Gospel!!!!! 

First Day in Mission Field. He is wearing the tie Bishop Nygren gave him.

Somewhere in Florida.  He has always loved war aircraft.