I hope that everyone had a great week.This week we had an awesome week, and we also had a General Authority from the Seventy, come to out mission and talked to us. His name is Elder Kopischke. He is awesome, he came to our mission about a year ago and talked to us, and i have learned so much from him the both times he has come to our mission.
But to start off the week, I went off on Exchanges again, and I got to go to a place called Chalmette. It was a really cool place and i had been there once before. We had a great time, i went with Elder Brown who was also being trained when i trained Elder Bean, so it was good to be able to get back with him, But we went out and we were able to find a couple of good people for them to teach, and go out and help so members with some translating and helping them. We taught a great lesson with a guy named Eduardo, he was a very nice guy and let us come in and we had a great lesson, we taught him about the restored gospel, and how the same church that Christ had established is on the earth again. And he really liked it and we were able to help him to feel the spirit and help him on his search. Then we got to go to Elder Kopischke, and it was awesome.First he started off saying that he had prepared a couple of things for us, but we were going to deiced what we were going to talk about. So he asked us what we wanted to learn, and some one asked how we can be able to magnify our calling. And that was almost what the entire meeting was about. He started off by talking to us about who we were in the Pre-Mortal life. How each and every single person on the earth right now is one of the elect, and how we are a royal generation. And he kind of expounded on that a ton and it was super awesome. He also talked about our agency, and it was pretty interesting, because it was something i learned a while ago but i had kind of forgotten over time. But he was telling us when we got baptized, that at that point in out life's we used our agency to do good. And we don't have our agency to choose if we want to take it back, we have our mortal agency to choose good and evil daily but, when we choose to be baptized we said we would live the commandments, and do what we needed to do.
He also talked about something I thought was really awesome. So he talked about a couple of principles that go together so we can be successful. But the first point is obedience and that as we are being obedient we are showing our faith, and as we are doing that and our faith is growing, we are becoming a more pure people, and as we become a more pure people we are realizing our faults and we start to repent of those things. And as we start to do these things, we will start to have a plan of what we need to do to achieve these things, and while are planning to do these things we are using our agency to do so. And after that we have got to put in the work to make those plans happen, and we need to work hard and be diligent to be able to achieve those things. And then he opened it up to the brother Jared and what he did to be able to see the finger of the lord, and how he had never seen anyone with so much faith to be pushed threw the vial. But it was great and i learned so much from it.
One more thing it was funny we were out tracking and contacting,and we found these people and they were real nice, so we went back to follow up with them, they weren't to interested, but come to find out they were our bishops Aunt and Uncle!! But we had a great week and i hope yall have a good coming week! Be safe and read!!
Elder Peterson
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