Hello everyone!
I feel the need to start this letter by iterating that we are not meant to live in a world like this. We live in a dark, cold, dreary world when we look at all the adversity there is around us, and the things that people do around us, and so much more. But we must endure to the end, we must keep pushing through, and leave behind the things of this world and prepare to live in a better world, one in which we are meant to reside, with our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ, and our families.
Me and Elder Reese
This week has been pretty rough. There has been a lot of stress and difficulty, and there were a lot of times I felt alone. This work is hard. I don’t know the area, I don’t know many of the people still, or where things are, and it wasn’t until this morning that we were finally able to go and officially shop. All I’ve eaten for the past two weeks is pizza, hot dogs, and taco bell! That’s pretty much all that people seem to eat here in Battle Creek! Haha but it’s alright I made sure to buy some healthy food. It really does help to keep one happy.
The paper that revealed who my son was on the big day! 🙂
About four days of this week we were on trade-offs with Either the district leader or the zone leaders. So I haven’t even really had my son with me very much! But we are working at developing his confidence. He’s better at being a missionary than he thinks, but he tries to just give awkward situations to me because I “know what I’m doing.” Let me tell you, I do not know what I’m doing. Probably never will. We just have to rely on God for this work to happen. For example, we seriously worked out butts off trying to teach this week. We keep picking up cool potentials and setting up tons of lessons with them, but every single lesson we had planned last week fell through and we did HOURS of knocking on doors because of it. Almost got bit by a pitbull actually. But yesterday a member brought a lady to church who he thought my be interested. Turns out she used to meet with the missionaries when she was 16, and now has been feeling that she wants to be baptized and join this church. God sent a miracle, as He saw that we were working our hardest throughout this week, and he sent us one of His precious children to bring into the fold.
Elder Reese and Elder Whitesides eating giant Chicken breast
I know the message we share is true. I know it through the power of the Holy Ghost, through constant prayer and study. I know it changes lives, even if you already have a strong belief in Christ and try to follow him. I love you all so much, and it is time for us to go but stay strong, keep pushing through, and even if you don’t see a miracle at the end of the tunnel, we at least know that we will inherit a beautiful life with our Savior if we will endure to the end. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Me and Elder Reese
Elder Breinholt
