New Transfer

So a new transfer with a new companion. I really like Elder Rigby. We get a long well. We teach really well together. We love messing with the little kids and showing them magic tricks haha.

I was thinking of a message to share with you guys. There is a new Mormon message that I really really like. Its awesome. It has to do with God answering our prayers. I hope you guys watch it and learn from it and how God answers your own prayers.

 

http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=3701964025001

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4 months

Crazy to think i only have for 4 more months left. Its going by fast! But yeah things here are going good. We had a busy week with all sorts of things. Going out and doing baptismal interviews, activities, service projects, etc. It was a busy week, it was different than our normal weeks so that was good.

Ive been studying a lot about Patriarchal Blessings lately. They are one of the things I love most about the true church being restored. A Patriarchal blessing-Direct communication from Heavenly Father to you. I listened to a talk by President Faust as well as another one by a Patriarch at BYU. President Faust talks about how his blessing is small, but it is perfect for what he needed. I heard once that President Hinckley's was only a paragraph or two. The patriarch at BYU talked about 3 purposes to a patriarchal blessing:

1. Declare Lineage

2. Stand as a testimony of the truth

3. Show Heavenly Father's love for you.

Mine does all 3 of these as, I'm sure, does yours. I think of things that are in my blessing that only God could have possibly known. It declares my lineage and Shows Heavenly Fathers love for me. I am so grateful for my patriarchal blessing. I encourage you to rely on yours and study it prayerfully if you already have it and if you don't, pray about it and see if its the right time for you to get it.

I love you all. I pray for you every day. Thanks for everything.

love,

Elder Money

 

 

 

Hey Fam!

Hey guys,

Things are going good here in Angola. The area is doing well. The weather is cool, relatively. Not too much new going on. How are things for you guys? I don't really have anything new to say, so I just wanted to see how you all are doing... Write me! and i wanted to share a story that i really like, That's helped me a lot on my mish.

Love you guys!

love,

Elder Money

One Night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you you'd walk with me all the way, but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me." The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

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Hey y'all.

Sorry its been a while. We've been pretty busy. Things here are going good. Same old same old. Thanks for all the emails and support you guys give. I love to hear all the good things that are going on. Sounds like you guys are having a blast without me.... ;)

Trish, Ryan, and Ash, This week in moms letter to me, she addressed it to me, her favorite child. Sorry guys, guess its finally sealed. ;p

Some of the Elders in our zone got robbed this past week. Their house got robbed in the middle of the night, with them in it! but no worries, they're all fine. The robber just took some food, a DVD player, and a cell phone.

People keep calling us German cause of the world cup, we just accept it and give them a thumbs up haha.

We've been focusing a ton on The Book of Mormon lately. Which is good, cause i got really caught up in using the bible and bible bashing. Really it all just comes down to whether The Book of Mormon is true or not. As Ezra Taft Benson says, ''every man is eventually backed up to the wall of faith and there he must take his stand.'' I know its true. No church understands the bible as well as ours, thanks to The Book of Mormon. Knowing this, we have a responsibility to do our part. To go to church, ON TIME. to keep the commandments, and especially to share it with EVERYONE. I challenge you all to reach out and try and share the Gospel with someone who hasn't felt the blessings of it in their lives. I know the Gospel has blessed my life and because of that, i enjoy sharing it with others. Help the missionaries out. I hate knocking doors. The best way to do missionary work is through the members, but this requires the participation of YOU, the members. I love you all. You guys are the greatest. Heavenly Father has blessed us all more than we realize. Love you!.

Love,

Elder Money

Hey

pics from President and Sister Merrills Blog

Things here are going good. I'm close, and yet far haha. i really like my area. we've started to focus more on working with the members. so that's helping. i love getting to know new people. Ive met so many awesome people.  we've got a couple new missionaries, i think were holding strong at about 25, we got a new American and 4 new Mozambicans. so its going good. my comp is really cool, we get along really well. hes a Utes fan and a falcons fan. hes kinda quiet, and i talk a lot so it works out haha. But yeah I'm loving it. i just keep on keepin on. i still quote movies all the time and say name that movie, but a lot of the time I'm talking to the wrong crowd haha.... Anyways i love and miss you. thanks for always being there for me. I was thinking about the time when i was about 5 and i didn't want to sleep in my bedroom but you made me, so i waited in there a bit and came back out and told you i had a scary dream that a whale ate me.... I lied :) haha but you still let me sleep in your room.

Sounds like the family is doing awesome. That's such a blessing. we really are blessed. Its nice to be able to focus on the mish and not have to worry about home. And yes i would love to go to the San diego temple!! There was a couple from our branch who went to south Africa a couple of weeks ago to get sealed. They're a young couple. shes a returned missionary. I miss the temple a ton. i talked to them about it, he was kinda mixed emotions so to speak haha. i think he was expecting something different. but i love it. i cant wait to get back and go again.

Things here are going good. the area is doing really well. this has been kind of a long transfer. it started early because of the visas and what not. but i dunno just a lot has gone on. as for marcial. He works at a bakery. his future parent in laws own it and he manages it. He is awesome. Hes always happy. And hes way good at soccer. He speaks french and a little bit of English. but his wife is fluent. hes one of my favorite members. hes the young men's president in our branch. ill forward you his email and you can talk to him. you could send it in English and his wife can respond.... i don't know the details but you guys can work it out. i told him you'd love to help. hes gonna walk with us on Wednesday cause we've found a bunch of members from the Congo who only speak french... so hell be our translator haha. but yeah i love you and miss you. thanks for being so awesome!!!!

''Im on the last stretch, but i still cant see the finish line :)'' -Elder Money

Love,

Your little boy

Happy Fathers day

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2009-06-24-let-us-be-men?lang=eng

Coca Cola

Hey Guys!

Things going good here in Luanda. Just sweating like crazy! Shout out to Elders Brown, Cafferty, Clifford, Hyde, and Stewart who go home this week. 

This was a pretty good week. Nothing new really. Cool story: Coca Cola is doing a give away thing where you enter in a code on the back of coca cola cans and win prizes. This game is perfect for the missionaries who walk the streets all day long, buying coke and finding them on the sidewalk haha. I won a t shirt. Some other Elders won a 42 inch flat screen LG TV!! They ended up giving it to a member in our branch named Cordencio. Hes an amazing member. He always walks with the missionaries and has one of the strongest testimonies i know. The Lord works in mysterious ways i guess! :) But he does bless those who serve him.

Things are going good. I love and miss you all. Thanks for all the support. Keep in touch. Love you!!

Love,

Elder Money

May 18

Mom,

Sounds like an exciting week. Sorry we didn't write earlier. we had mission conference on Monday and yesterday the Internet was down. we found a new cyber where the Internet works but its pretty ghetto. theres a ton of cockroaches running all over my keyboard haha. Wish i could have been there for jess's farewell, oh well. Ill be there for her homecoming. I had to give a talk in church on Sunday. not one of my better talks. the branch president came up to me on Saturday and asked me to give it. i talked about the culture of the gospel and the culture of Angola..... Things are going good though. we had a good week, a busy week.

Mission conference was good. Elder Renlund is a very nice sincere man. He taught us a lot of good things. The church has all the missionaries take a survey before and then the General Authorities talk about what was on the survey. the main thing they talked about was recognizing the Spirit. oh, we also had a leadership meeting where we talked about the survey. one missionary put that he felt like he never feels the spirit..... So kinda interesting.... I dont know who it is though. Poor kid. They also talked a lot about studying and learning the language. Nothing too special. they did a good job though. he told some cool and some funny stories. President Merrill is awesome. I believe that a huge reason why i was called here, was so that he could be my mission pres. Ive learned so much from him. He is so loving and so humble. I really enjoyed his talk and testimony. And then on p'day yesterday we played soccer with all the missionaries. that was fun. we got transfers. I'm staying in my area with the same comp. which I'm happy about. 

I've been thinking about home a lot lately... trunky! haha. so I'm trying not to think about home as much. Things here are going good though. The work is kinda slowing down.so we gotta keep working on that. maybe its cause I'm living with elder brown who goes home next week! haha. but yeah. trying to stay focused.

I love you mom.Thanks for all you do. 

Love,

your little boy

Mothers Day

Happy mothers day to all the moms! It was awesome to talk to you all. You guys all look great!!

I just wanted to say how grateful I am for my mom and my family in general. I often ask myself why i was so lucky and so blessed with such a great family. I don't know what i did to deserve it, but whatever it was, I'm grateful for it. I often think of how awesome the Gospel is and its so awesome because it is focused on the family. I know that families are blessed when raised in the Gospel. I'm so grateful for parents, especially my mom, who taught me right from wrong from day 1. 

Ill always remember the time I stole some small little cars from a friend when i was about 5 and my mom found out and took me down to the police station at 10 o clock at night. She didn't give me the easy way out either, I had to walk in there and talk to that officer face to face hahaha. I look back on that experience with a smile and gratitude. Its things like that and the good examples I've had that have brought me out here, so that others can share of these same blessings.

I love you all. Especially my mom. Thanks for everything. You're always in my prayers. Happy mothers day!!!!

love,

Elder Money