We've had another wonderful week in beautiful Ventura. I would say sunny, but it POURED on Tuesday and Wednesday. You don't know the meaning of awesome until you're biking like a madman, trying to make an appointment, and all the while its pouring rain. It was great! :D
I'm doing really well! I'm still completely intact and I'm not dying so what is there to worry about? I am getting a little nervous though. We find out if and where we are getting transferred on Saturday, and it's fairly common in our mission for new missionaries to get transferred. I don't want to go!!! D: This area is so great!! But I'll leave if the Lord see's fit. In the end, it's what He wants, not me.
Anyway, WE HAVE A BAPTISMAL DATE!!! Woooohoooooooo!! We met with Kayla several times this week, and she committed to be baptized on January 10th! I'm way excited for her. She's so prepared, and everything is going so smoothly. The Lord has definitely been hearing our prayers. We also are making huge progress with one of the less active families in the ward. They're the one with the daughter who's leaving on a mission soon (I think I've talked about them before). Anyway, they invited us to come over to their house to watch the Christmas devotional last night! It was amazing to see this family who just over a month ago hardly came to church crowed around a laptop to hear the words of the prophets. The dad (who's a nonmember) was super excited about it and was also really excited to show us that he had downloaded the Mormon Channel app on his phone. It was truly amazing.
So this week, I want to talk a little bit about faith. More specifically, the effect that having faith can and will have on us. In Ether, we read the story of the Brother of Jared. He builds the barges to cross the ocean to the promised land, and then he asks the Lord to touch the stones so that they will give off light so they can see in those barges. First, let's look at that incredible display of faith just right there. He has absolutely no way to provide light for his friends and family, but he has complete and total faith that the Lord will provide. Second, in the chapter heading of that chapter (Ether 3), it says that "those who have a perfect knowledge cannot be kept from within the veil." Basically, if we have enough faith, the Lord can't hold anything from us.
Hope everything goes well for all of you this week! Sorry this letter is kind of lame, but know that I love all of you and I'm grateful for all that you're doing!
Much love,
Elder Rosenlof
Ain't it pretty? Oh, and the landscape's nice too I guess...
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