The temple is finally back open after the renovations inside and so we as a district got the chance to go to the temple today!!!
Also super super big thank you to all who sent birthday wishes yesterday! Birthdays on the mission can be a drag sometimes but it was an awesome day to be alive!!
So to jump into the past week and a half, we have had lots of good things coming for us. We've started meeting with this girl who wants to be baptized and we've gone over a few times to teach her all the principles before her baptism. We've got an incredible relationship with this family and I'm super excited to see her enter into a covenant with God. In fact for my birthday they had us over for a lesson and dinner and they ended up making me cupcakes and lit a candle and sang happy birthday to me so it was so so nice to be there for that!!
We had exchanges with our zone leaders this past week which was lots of fun. We drove around downtown Richmond, found lots of interesting people, had delicious dinner from a restaurant off main street and just had the time of our lives doing missionary work! I will never forget the many things I saw and heard, I mean cmon, it's downtown Richmond Virginia, full of some of God's funniest, most awkward, kindest, most interesting people! It's awesome!!
Another thing I got to do is, as district leader I get to interview people before they are baptized and it is one of my favorite things to do. To sit down with someone who is ready to make a covenant and just hear their conversion story. So as our mission is striving to baptize weekly, that means I get to meet lots of people who are ready for baptism! It honestly changes my perspective on finding because some of the people I've met have literally been found in some of the most random circumstances ever, like at a gas station or a subway parking lot or a dollar tree! It's so cool.
Speaking of baptisms, as we finish this transfer in a week, I'm super excited to help all the miracle people we've found get baptized, 2 of which are very promising and if God continues to work, we could have 2-4 more people make a covenant these next 6 weeks! One of them is awesome, she has been coming to church and has been felloshipped like none other! The ward has taken her and her mom in as their own and I'm so grateful that we have such an awesome ward where our friends feel so comfortable at church and at activities! So as long as we can get a steady appointment, come September she will be ready for baptism!!
Other than those friends, there isn't much new updates on anyone else. We have been trying out new methods of finding as walmart is pretty much completely dry and we've been kicked out plenty of times that we probably need to give it a few months to rest. Our other finding spots like food lion and gas stations are just tense when we go. We have to go at certain times for it to work well. But we've been getting into knocking doors at night and visiting people as well as just turning off the car, grabbing the bikes and hitting the road talking to everyone as we bike by. That's the one thing I'm worries about with this next transfer is the struggle it might be to find. But I know God won't stop the work as long as we are willing to get out and talk to everyone.
Sorry this email is kinda long but I read a cool scripture the other day and with us being kicked out constantly I thought it was relatable! It's Mormon 8: 21-22...
"21 And he that shall breathe out wrath and strifes against the work of the Lord, and against the covenant people of the Lord who are the house of Israel, and shall say: We will destroy the work of the Lord, and the Lord will not remember his covenant which he hath made unto the house of Israel—the same is in danger to be hewn down and cast into the fire;
22 For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on, until all his promises shall be fulfilled."
I mean that sums up all my thoughts on this topic perfectly. No matter how many times the cops are called, or we get kicked out, or yelled at, or spit on, or chastised for doing what we are doing, God's eternal purpose shall roll on!!!
Anyways sorry for the long email, I hope you have a fantastic week and stay cool if it is hot where you are, because it is very warm here, love yall tons!!!
-Elder Milius
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