Meet the President

This week, we finally got to meet the new mission President. He and his wife are awesome. He shared a thought that I really liked. It was from Romans 8:38-39. It says, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate of from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." If you take out all of the big words, basically it means that there is nothing that we can possible do that will change the fact that GOD LOVES US. Sometimes Satan leads us to believe that God doesn't love us because of something that we have done or a mistake that we have made. Sometimes, we don't show our love to God the way that we should. But, He loves us unconditionally. He loves us enough to send His only Son to atone for and die for us so that we can return to live with Him.

This week, we had kind of a cool "last second finding experience" again. For those of you that read Caitlin's emails, it was similar to her's. It was pretty late and we were about to go home, but we decided to stop at one more house. Caitlin said "It's all about the last door." But, this house didn't actually have a door. It was kind of just open. So we yelled "tao po" and people came out. Before we had really even said anything, they said, "sit down. We will listen to whatever you have to say." We hope to get back to them this week. 

We also had a lot of service projects this week. We did one at a school in our area where we dug a water trench because we are getting into rain season. Them we had one another day where we weeded at a members house and then we had a burial service for one of their kittens that died. Our last service project was on Saturday. It was at a members house that had burned down. It was super sad. There wasn't a lot that we could do because they hadn't done an investigation yet to find the cause of the fire. But, it was awesome to see all the other members come together bringing boxes of food, clothes, blankets, and other house supplies. Some of the members who have very little to begin with were willing to give whatever they could to help someone in need. It was awesome. We are going back on Wednesday for a big cleanup before they start building the house again. 

Thank you for all the emails and thoughts.

-Elder Thomas