Elder Hayden: Chapter 14

Oh, how we love this Elder of ours!  As we are approaching the 100-day mark, it has really started to hit me how much of a piece to our family puzzle Hayden is.  His love and acceptance of everyone along with his ability to find the good or positive in everything is something that I miss on a daily basis.  I miss his face peering into the kitchen asking what is for dinner every night around 5pm and I miss hearing him playing Madden with his dad while his brothers are playing video games as well.  With all that being said, I wouldn’t trade his experiences and growth in the last 100 days for him being home for anything.  He is truly a disciple of Jesus Christ telling people about the only true church on the world today. 

He told me in my own personal letter that there were so many times that he heard certain things like “The church is true, the people are not necessarily as well” and other phrases we have all heard but he didn’t realize how true it was until he was out serving.  I know that our Heavenly Father is watching over him and helping to teach the people of Tampa Bay but also us as his family as well especially his momma.  We love him to the moon and back hundred times, we miss him terribly but we are oh, so proud of him!  Enjoy!!

Hello Everyone!

"And we did go forth suffering atheists in order to find the miracles. Of which there were many."

This past week, as always, was fantastic. I SET A PERSONAL RECORD! 5 people came to church. That's right! 5! It doesn't sound like a lot, but I have never had over three sooooo pretty cool actually. There is actually one of them that I will talk about later named Gene. 

This week though was pretty awesome! We taught a lot of lessons, set a lot of baptismal dates, had a lot of appointments where they didn't answer the door but a lot that did as well. We actually had a member of the church that is one of the greatest people ever. Specific Shout Out to Brother Anzures who came out and drove us around to any appointment that we had from 12 noon-8:50 at night. 

I love my area by the way and next week is transfers and I am very nervous I will get transferred and not be able to continue to watch these wonderful people I get to meet progress but that is the way the mission works pretty often. Either way is okay with me. Also I might be training but I don't know.

Unfortunately Veronica dropped us and she had to leave Florida because she missed her court date.

The pictures are my district, that's me on the far right with much shorter hair, and the other is our investigator Eddie because we needed him to learn how to tie a tie.

Alright lets talk about some miracles.~ 

Raquel: This is the miracle that gave inspiration for my verse for this week. We just got out of church, taught a guy the plan of salvation, turn down a road and talk to this guy and offer a prayer. He starts laughing all crazy and asks "Why do you do this? Why do you believe it will work? Who told you to do this? etc." He then tried miserably to diminish my faith and try to make me question my beliefs (Didn't work) all the while Elder Gardner is busting a gut in the drivers seat because this guy is so insane. We eventually just cut him off and said God bless to him. The next guy we meet is more polite but still said he was an atheist. The third guy we meet didn't specifically say he was an atheist but he didn't say no to prayer pretty quickly. Then came Raquel. We offer a prayer to her and it takes a few tries to get her to here us and she says "Oh I am already praying with my son on the phone." So we just told her to put it on speaker and we can all pray together. So she did and afterwards she is soooo excited and acts as if she just won the lottery and sets up that we come by on Tuesday to teach her more!

Gene: Gene is a 100% miracle. We taught a lady who we have since dropped but driving away from her house we meet a guy named Gene. I offered a prayer and he said "I have no faith in Christ. I haven't for 30 years. Just say a prayer for me that someone with some authority shows up and fixes this situation I am in. Without being too annoying I asked if he wanted to say that prayer right now with us. He said "I guess so." We then said the prayer, and he tells us more about his situation. He was trying to do a good deed of letting a homeless guy live with him. After about a month, the homeless man started hitting himself, called the police, told them Gene did it, and Gene was taken to jail. We taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and all about faith (we are out of restoration pamphlets so we can't teach that very well.) After that we drive away and he halfheartedly walks away. The next day we get a call from him. When he got back home, there were three police cars there and the police officer tells Gene they are going to evict the man from Gene's home and they believe his story. He now lives back in his home and we are teaching him about the gospel. He now reads from the Book of Mormon and attended church yesterday and loved it. We are super excited for his baptism on the 27th. 

I am very grateful to be a missionary in the Florida Tampa Mission where miracles happen on the daily. It is very humbling but awe inspiring at the same time and I love it. I am thankful for the prayers and appreciate all of you. Thank you all for being so inspirational to me in helping me to desire to serve a mission. 

Love you all –

Elder May

Elder Hayden: Chapter 13

Elder Hayden never ceases to amaze me.  Seriously!  The things he does is so outside his comfort zone which reaffirms to me that our Heavenly Father is completely and totally mindful of us including our shortcomings and comfort zones.  Then He help bolster us up when we are doing His work.  I know that He is doing that with our handsome Elder.  Miss him, love him more – but oh so proud of him ~ Enjoy!!

Hello!

       1) Yea, the days went by slow and weeks went by quickly

I am pretty sure my mom is not going to agree with that "scripture". I want to start off this week with an extremely awe inspiring testimony builder that we received over the phone on Thursday night:

On Thursday morning, we get a text from the zone leaders. They simply told us to check our email the next day. The next day we left to exercise early so we can stop and check our email first and there is nothing. They tell us that it should be there when we leave for proselyting. We check then and nothing. This pattern repeats itself until we are back inside for the night without having received an email. We call the zone leaders to get to the bottom of this mystery and they give us the news. 

The email read that, "Elder Gardner and Elder May, your companionship, along with two other companionship's have been prayerfully selected by the leaders of this mission for a special challenge.  In your area, there is a person prepared to be baptized on August 6th. You task is to find them and bring them the gospel.  The only way this can happen is if you, be exactly obedient, have the faith to find them, have your eye single to the glory of God at all times, work efficiently at all times, rely on the Lord.  They are in your area and we know that you can find them. This challenge is to increase your faith and the faith of those in your district. Do you accept this challenge?"

We were chosen by the leaders to find a prepared person. I know that we could do it. We accepted (obviously) and went to work the next day.

We taught, we found, we blessed, we committed and all other aspect of the work. We found a ton of people and we testified to them. Only two came to church and they can be prepared by then but I don't know about trying to force a baptism in order to fulfill a challenge. 

I think that even if we don't baptize someone on the 6th, we still now have many more prepared people that will be baptized and I want to write about one. Her name will be changed just because it is a touchy situation:

Victoria: Victoria is a media referral. A lot of her family is LDS already and her father told her to request a Book of Mormon because she has had a few challenges in her life. In the past couple of days since we met her we have brought her the Book of Mormon, she attended our scripture study class and said that the Book of Mormon is true, we set her baptismal date, we committed her to come to church, she overslept and missed church (unfortunately) and when we came by later that night she apologized and felt terrible. But she is still extremely excited to learn and be baptized and I am excited to be a part of it. She is a miracle. 

I love all of you and know that you are praying for me because I couldn't do this without the prayers. Thank you for them and everything else you have done. 

Love,

Elder May

Elder May: Chapter 12

Every Monday this boy just inspires us to be better and work harder because of all the amazing work he is doing.  For our family, this week was a pretty stressful and difficult but ended up with a few miracles for ourselves.  We know that is because of the work and sacrifice of our Elder.  We are so blessed to have him serving the Lord and even more blessed to have him as part of our family.  We love him so much and miss him even more but oh, so proud of him!  Enjoy!!

Chapter 12:

Hello Everyone!

He is so handsome!
Love him!!

This was another FANTASTIC week in the Florida Tampa Mission. I just turned to Elder Gardner now that I am an experience 9-week old Elder and said, "Man, my whole mission has just been a blur." He busted up laughing because of how young I still am. 

Anyway, we had a great week this week! No sunburn, no biking in this insane heat, people were taught, interviews with the new mission president, small rain storms almost every night, I love it!

Also, THERE WAS A BAPTISM! Fred Lane is the newest member of the church in the Hudson ward. There was a problem at the baptism however. Because of the rain, at least that is what we think it was, the water of the font was brown as shown in the picture of Elder Gardner valiantly standing in it to unplug the drain. Luckily, one of the brothers in the ward said we could use his pool! So Fred was baptized in the

pool and it is a real testimony builder to remind me that it doesn't matter where the ordinance is done, as long as it is clean, because the important part is the priesthood, not the font. 

Let's talk about some miracles:

Joseph: Late last Monday night we went to visit with a person who's appointment we missed the day before. We got out of the car and I saw a person out of the corner of my eye and asked him if he wanted to say a prayer. It was raining slightly, and in Florida that means the sky is about to turn into a waterfall and you are going to get soaked in a couple seconds, so I expected him to say no. To my surprise he said he did. I prayed with him and then just started to teach him. I asked questions, taught doctrine, testified and set up a return appointment. We shook hands and I started to walk away, then remembered I should try and invite him to be baptized. I asked if he found out it was true would he be baptized and he said "yes I would," so his date is on the sixth of August. 

Bill: We met Bill two weeks ago on Sunday but he is an awesome guy. He is in his 50s or 60s and has been a faithful catholic his whole life. He is dating a member of the church and they talk about religion often and discuss one another's beliefs. This past week we went by to get to know him a bit and teach him the restoration. We did that and invited him to be baptized, to which he replied, "She warned me you'd bring that up. As of right now, no. But things can change." Then we went by yesterday to see him and talked with him more about religion and he told us that the true church on earth is either the Catholic faith or the Mormon faith. He has been studying the church for years but has never read the Book of Mormon so we told him that the Book of Mormon will solidify his answer on which one is actually true. Either the Book of Mormon is true and so is the Mormon church or the Book of Mormon is not true and the Catholic church is true. It's fun to meet with him.

There are many more miracles that I could write about but I will leave it here for now. I love you all and am thankful for you. Continue being awesome. Love you! The church is true. Bye!

Love,

Elder May

Elder May: Chapter 11

Boy, this Elder is amazing.  He never ceases to amaze me!  I love getting pictures from him and sweet ward members who take the time to send us photos of him.  We are beyond blessed to have him serving the Lord and love him to pieces.  Love him, miss him but oh, so proud of him!  Enjoy!!

Hi Mom!

This is the beginning of my two month mark as a missionary. I know some might say that it has gone by really fast. I will disagree because I know I will be in trouble with my mom if I say that.

WE HAD A FANTASTIC WEEK!!!! We have taught a BUNCH of lessons to people and seen some fantastic miracles! Want to meet one of them?

The lady in orange is named Coral and every one of those kids is hers. She has six kids all under the age of six. The other lady in the picture is her mom Jeane. Jeane is a member of the church and Coral says she knows she was baptized but we can't find her records anywhere so what are we gonna do?!

BAPTIZE HER AGAIN!  

She has been coming to church for a long time now and she is just going to need to go through the lessons really quick and marry her boyfriend and then she will be able to be a member of the Church on paper as well!

Another one of our miracles is named Pearla - We were driving down the road to an appointment after about four things had fallen through and there is a lady walking through the tall grass. We pulled over to the side of the road, safely of course, and asked if she wanted to say a prayer. I think she was scared of us because we heard her quietly agree. Then she saw our name tags. She asks us, "Mormon's!?" We say yes expecting her to no longer want to say a prayer. Instead, she runs over to the car enthusiastically and says "I love the Mormons! I met with them a lot in Costa Rica. They are so friendly and I have been to every church around here and everyone is so mean and I didn't know the Mormons were here too!" So we prayed and set up an appointment. When we went to the appointment we brought the perfect member along. We brought Fred and Judy. Judy is a member from Peru who doesn't speak English and Fred is our number one investigator and he is getting baptized this Saturday! We taught an amazing lesson and Judy bore her testimony to Pearla in Spanish, which is Pearla's first language, and during the lesson Fred was able to talk about how he came to know the message was true. It was awesome to have them both out with us. Pearla has a date set for the sixth of August but we might push it up.

I am very excited for this upcoming week. Let me tell you one more cool thing:

In sacrament meeting we heard from a service missionary couple that is a town over from us. They gave their talks and in both of them talked about how awesome missionary work truly is. The wife, Sister Johnson, talked about how the hardest act of service she has ever had to do for the Lord is let her daughter go on a mission to Hong Kong. That would definitely be difficult and I know that the daughter is doing great things and that her parents are being blessed as well for their diligent service because I know I am being blessed and that my family is as well.

I am very grateful for the myriad of blessings and miracles that I have been able to have in my life, both pre-mission and currently. I know that this gospel can change lives because it has been able to do so for me. I am grateful for everyone I have in this life and for those I haven't even met but will be able to soon. I love you all.

Love Elder May

Elder May: Chapter 10

I knew the day would come that he would cut his own hair and sure enough it was this week… I remember getting the first videos of Hunter on his mission shaving his hair off so at least this is a tad better.  Love this boy, miss this boy but oh so proud of him!  Happy Week 10 Elder May… Enjoy!

WHEW this was a fantastic week. I got to go on an exchange this week with my zone leader, Elder Casperson. All Elder Gardner told me about him, because they used to be companions, is that Elder Casperson "goes hard when finding." and he definitely does. This week has definitely changed my missionary work. A compilation of; a district meeting about having the faith to find, Elder Casperson teaching me so much in the span of one day, Elder Gardner and I working together and having more faith as we find, and something I read in personal study called the Riccardi Letter, has all literally changed our work that we are doing. 

 

Actually, I should start out with something funny that I did. I cut my own hair. I was attempting to be thrifty! The front looks totally fine and that is what I want people focused on anyway.....The back didn't look as good. BUT IT’S HAIR AND IT WILL GROW BACK.

On Monday of this past week Elder Gardner and I were pretty discouraged because of how many rejections we had the past week and Monday did not go too much better. Then came a great district meeting. We talked about how if we have faith, without any shred of doubt, that God will help us achieve our goals, then we can accomplish anything we set as our goal. God is no respecter of persons but he is a respecter of goals. That same day we had the transfer and instead of quoting this script that I had of asking if they want to say a prayer with us, asking if they had faith in Christ, asking how that has helped them through life, letting them know that we share a message to strengthen their faith, and then sharing the restoration, he would walk up and ask them what makes them happy. Or what is a miracle they have seen in there life? Heck, he even asked one lady if she had ever been baptized and she said no so he said we could do it for her! That day we taught 11 lessons and set 7 baptismal dates. He taught me a lot and a lot of those lessons he had me take the lead on them! 

Then on Wednesday we switched back companions. When Elder Gardner and I were back in our area, we started off the day with two hours of finding time, from 12-2. I was really worried the mojo was going to be gone because I didn't have anyone telling me what to do anymore. I was mistaken. We had taught 9 lessons by 2 and a total of 13 other lessons and 3 member present lessons with 8 baptismal dates that were set. It was amazing. We had set lofty goals to build our faith and we saw miracles from doing so. 

The rest of the week slowed down a bit but we still taught a ton of people and had miracles happen right in front of us. I will write down a couple

Eddie and Kristen Hilton- In our area there is a very....humble (that's the very nice way to put it) apartment complex filled with drunk people and crime. We were finding people and turned in to this complex solely because we felt we should. Right after the turn in, we met Kristen. She is a very kind lady that was walking with her two kids around her complex. We taught her all of the restoration, including me reciting the first vision to her. After we had taught her she said, "That sounds crazy, but what's even crazier is that I believe it." While Elder Gardner was writing down the address of the church and our phone number on the back of the pamphlet I asked her, "Have you ever been baptized?" She said, "I have been saved, but being baptized is a life goal of mine and my husband so no I have not." So I set her baptismal date!

Chilly Karrie- Her name is Karrie and her nickname is Chilly so we call her both! We were driving down a road and saw a lady walking down the sidewalk talking on her phone. We pulled off to the side and I yell, "Ma'am can we say a prayer with you?" Confused because I am yelling, she walks over and asks what I said, still talking on the phone too. I ask again and she says, "YES PLEASE!”, hangs up the phone without saying bye, then starts to tell me all about her life. She is soon to buy a house, have a job interview and is getting a car soon. She asked me to pray that all of that goes well and that her 11 year old daughter remains healthy and in the faith. I pray for her and when we finish she is crying. She asks us when the next time we can come by is, asks for a pamphlet then tells us that she is crying because the night before, she prayed to God that he would put a messenger in her path that would help her to strengthen her faith again. 

Both those miracles have a date set for the 23rd of July. 

I am very proud of the way that God is being able to use me. I am thankful that he is. I constantly thank Him for this chance to be here and pray and thank Him for all of you. I love you all!  

Love - Elder May

Elder May: Chapter 9

Two month exactly today!  Hard to believe for sure.  WE still miss him every minute of every day but are so blessed to have him as a missionary and working hard as a servant of the Lord. We love him, we miss him but we are oh, so proud of him!

Chapter 9:

1 And it came to pass that in the sixth week of the work of the mission we found men and women and

did teach many lessons. 

I am not sure what that is
or why they are so close to it!

Wow that was really dorky. That’s my missionary sense of humor nowadays. It's finally kicking in. We did do that though. We had a few people that weren't extremely fun to talk to but we had a lot more of them that were fun to talk to. Also I will send the pictures to my awesome mom and hopefully she can get them working. 

First miracle, I haven't gotten sunburned yet this week. It is amazing what a full bottle of sunscreen can do to prevent the sun from burning you! Also this was my first week of not being sore from workouts and that is amazing as well. 

This is Elder May's sunburn from
2 weeks ago!

Unfortunately we did not have a baptism this weekend but we are still going to try and keep teaching him! He thankfully did not drop us like the last guy did. He hasn't responded to our texts though either.....We will see how it goes but I hope it goes well. 

An awesome quote that we had this past week was from Kevin who we met last week. He is progressing extremely well and when we invited him to this week’s baptism he asked, "Do you want me to just bring my bathing suit and I will get mine done too?" We could not do it yet but I wish we could have. 

Some cool miracles are:

Moses: During some of our scheduled finding time we felt we should go to the Winn-Dixie parking lot and try to find people. As we are talking to people, I look over to see Elder Gardner yelling to a guy that is walking around as if he has no idea where he is or how he got there. We taught him and found out that his name is Moses. That was pretty cool.

Brandon: Brandon is a former investigator that Elder Gardner was teaching but then his girlfriend didn't want anyone coming by anymore so they had to drop them. But we were recently walking around downtown New Port Richey (a town in our area) and we see this kid that is sitting on his porch. Elder Gardner walks up and says "WHATS UP?!" It’s Brandon. His girlfriend recently moved out and so he went to live with his cousin and somehow we ended up meeting with him. We retaught him the restoration and are going to continue teaching him. When we asked if he had any referrals for us he pointed at a house and said "DONT GO THERE. THAT LADY IS CRAZY. She met me the first time, called me Satan because I have tattoos, and then attacked me and pulled on my skin hoping to rip them off." We did not go to that house. I don't have any tattoos and I was scared. 

Elgin: Last night we were walking around in an area because an appointment fell through and we see that there is a member that lives on the road next to where we are. We had never heard his name before so we assumed he was less active. It’s a good assumption because our ward has less actives than it does actives. We went to his house and accidentally passed it. After we turned around a car pulls into his driveway and so we talk to the guy in the car. We get out and walk up and he exclaims, "ELDERS! I HAVEN'T SEEN ONE OF MY PEOPLE HERE IN A REALLY LONG TIME!" He gave each of us a hug and invited us in. That was really cool. 

Maria: We were having our daily planning session which just means we were confirming appointments for the day and we start each day out with a prayer. Right when we said amen, the phone rings and it is a kind lady that tells us she recently had someone try to break into her house and while she was running away she tripped and broke her foot. Then asked if we could give her a priesthood blessing. She is also a less active member and when we finished the blessing she looked at each of us and said, "I will come to church again. Thank you both so much." That was really cool.

Nate: We recently had a new neighbor move in. A couple of weeks ago, we walked outside to start our day and these three men were standing around a couch outside. My only guess is they were contemplating how to move the couch up the stairs into the apartment. We offer to help and somehow it ends up with me and the new neighbor carrying it up the stairs by ourselves! It was a three seat reclining couch and I don't know if you know or not, but those are heavy. Anyway, he was very appreciative and told us we should come by sometime and hang out and so we took that as you can come teach me sometime, so we did this past week. He was raised Hindu and has a lot of fantastic questions about what we believe and he is understanding extremely well what we teach. This past lesson, we were about to close with a prayer so we asked if he would say it. He said no immediately and I explained how easy it is to pray. After I explained, he said he would do it and he said a perfect prayer and it was even cooler because in the prayer he didn't ask for a single thing. Just a completely grateful prayer and that was really cool. 

Alright, I will try and send my mom the pictures from last week. I haven't taken any this week so I don't have any. I will take a selfie real quick and send it that way there is something. 

Love this Elder!!

I love anyone that is reading this right now. Near or far, related to me or not, I love you. I am thankful for any prayers that are being sent to me or any of my fellow missionaries. We truly can feel them all. 

-- 

Love, Elder May

Elder May: Chapter 8

Hard to believe but no, it doesn’t go fast.  We miss him every day and feel like a hole is in our family but we are proud of Elder May.  He did send pictures but the links were all broken but I was able to find some on the Florida Tampa Mission Facebook page.  Make sure to read his testimony at the end.  He is amazing!!  Love him, miss him but oh, so proud of him.  Enjoy!!

Chapter 8:

Sorry about how short the last email was. Something really cool happened though so I have a good excuse. Because President Cusick is going home we got to have a mission wide beach party. BUT NO ONE SWAM!!!! I don't think anyone out there knows how difficult it is to not swim on a very hot day on the beach. If you do I feel bad for you because I know your pain. Speaking of pain........

My leg got sunburned. As a missionary you are always wearing slacks, so on the rare occasion that you wear shorts, you forget to put on sunblock.......That one hurt a lot. But it is mostly gone now. On a brighter note,

Here I am with some other missionaries wanting to get in the selfie with me. It was a ton of fun though! We played sports and ate chicken and shared experiences as missionaries.

Then it was back to work the next day. We had a great week too. Our zone leaders issued a challenge to all of us to extend a baptismal invitation with every person you talk to. As we have done so, we have seen a ton of success. Our baptismal dates set now outnumber our amount of new investigators. A lot of them we will have to drop but it is an amazing sight to see right now! Speaking of baptisms!

Meet the newest Latter Day Saint! Cheryl Gee (pronounced G.) She has a really cool story of how she got in touch with the Elders. They were at church one day and there she was. After sacrament they go and introduce themselves and she tells them that she has been looking into the church for three years now and she wants her five lessons and she wants to be baptized. The elders replied with a simple "We can do that." And so we did. It was pretty awesome! We also had three investigators attend her baptism and one that attended church and got to see her confirmation. We have another baptism scheduled for this weekend so I hope there will be some more pictures for then. 

Here are a couple of miracles that have happened this week:

Kevin: When we don't have anything scheduled we go to parking lots to meet a lot of people and quickly teach and boldly testify. It's where we find the most people and teach other lessons. We went to a Save-a-Lot and this guy is biking through the parking lot. When he comes by us we quickly say "CAN WE SAY A PRAYER WITH YOU?!" He said yes and then we said a prayer and started teaching him. When we first met him he looked as though he was homeless and so we taught him and set up a return appointment. When we get to his address he gave us he actually had an apartment and we knocked on the door. He wasn't home. We call him and set up an appointment for another time. During that next time, we missed the appointment because we gave a church tour that went on for too long. We call and reschedule the last time and when we get to his house, he tells us that he got home two minutes before we knocked and to our surprise he had read the pamphlet we gave him and wanted to learn more. Since that time, we have taught him two other times. He now has a baptismal date for the 23rd of July, is reading the Book of Mormon and attended church this past Sunday. 

Hector and Sierra: Yesterday, Sunday the 19th, we had a lot of things fall through. We went to the park as a local place to sit and plan what we were going to do next. While we were sitting there we see this car drive by, park for ten seconds, then begin to drive off. They are leaving and Elder Gardner waves them down and asks to say a prayer. They excitedly say yes and that they need it. We pray and teach them about the restoration. They are really interested and have been looking for a new church. It was a miracle because they really had no reason as to why they went to the park and we only stopped there for a minute or two. It just lined up perfectly that we were both there at the same time.

Those are a couple of the miracles that we have been able to meet this week. Something I want to try and do is every six weeks, also know as a transfer, I want to end my email by sharing my testimony. That way when I look back I can see my growth or something like that.

I am a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the only complete, and perfectly true church on earth. It has been confirmed to me, time and time again that it is. I know that God is my loving Heavenly Father and he is constantly and consistently working to build me up so that I may be more like him. I am missionary because I know this message is true. I know that the Atonement of Jesus Christ happened and that it works. I have utilized His Atonement in my life. It works. Guilt goes away and where the guilt was being held is flooded in by the Spirit. My purpose is to talk to everyone, teach them of this message, invite them to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. That is all I am able to do and I am extremely thankful for the incredible calling that I have been given. It truly is one of the most important callings in the church. It is set apart by God himself to allow us to bring his children back into the fold. I will do all that I can to accomplish this goal. In closing I want to let you all know that I know that my redeemer lives. He is my savior, redeemer, and perfect older brother. I am excited to see Him again, give him a hug, and thank Him for everything that he has done for me. I love this gospel and know it is true.