Another week bites the dust and the miracles of god continue!! I love being a missionary soooo much! It's the best thing on earth! Everyday just to wake up and go. GO GO GO!!!! What better calling or blessing could i ever ask for in my life! Often times i ask myself 'Why me Father? Of all the amazing people in the world why do you choose to bless me so much god?' It's a question that has been on my mind a lot lately and a question that i have been studying and pondering a lot about! Ultimately my thoughts and studies have all led me back to this lil saying "When you give you receive, when you receive you DONT STOP giving...." It may be a lil confusing on paper but to me in my crazy mind it makes perfect sense! I love the mercy of god. The goodness of god. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to succeed. He wants to give us the blessings. SOOO why not accept these things? If god wants us to be happy then we must put it into the equation. (We must give to receive) So if we want to accept the blessing of happiness from god then we must FIRST help others to be happy. Make others day brighter. Help them to smile. Help them to enjoy being a child of god. When we do this then we Receive the blessing of Happiness from god. We accept this gift from him. Then REMEMBER REMEMBER once we have received this gift we must continually give it... if we don't we WILL lose it! Dont stop the service. Don't stop being as our Savior Jesus Christ!!
Okay okay sorry for the tangent haha I loved that though and i loved the inspiration god was able to give me as i prayed studied and pondered on these questions? 'Why me father?
This past week here in HOLLYWOOD was beautiful!!!! God was sooooo good to us! We were able to unite more of gods families together through the waters of baptism!! Back when i was with Elder Hall we baptized Nichole (mom) and Jamilla (cousin). For weeks and weeks we were working with the rest of their family. Specifically Nicholes kids Maleek (15) and Kiera (22)! They both are amazing with the greatest intentions on the face of the planet. Kiera really wants to be baptized but she works every sunday and is still fighting with her boss to get it changed haha Maleek was always just waiting for her sister to get work off so she could come with us all to church. Well weeks went by and maleek never came. Weeks and weeks. We continued to work with this family helping them and pushing them to trust in god. Well Maleek finally came to church. He met some friends and now he plays ball and stuff with them on tuesday nights. Well a week later he was baptized (yesterday)!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His baptism was awesome! He told us he felt soooo good and pure. He always just wanted to be pure so that he could always be with god. He told us his baptism was greater then he had expected. Afterwards he said... "Dang my sis needs this" haha :) What a blessing and a miracles it was to see him finally go out of his comfort zone and come to church without his sister. Now GOD has allowed us to baptized 3 of these members in the family and now we are just working towards kiera and helping her to take this step as well :) With god all things are possible and it WILL happen :)
So i'm not sure if i told you all yet but Elder Kopichke of the seventy is coming to tour our mission this week. We are having like a mini mission conference haha half of the mission will gather together with him one day for a conference and the other half of the mission the next day. I am extremely excited. The other day i received a phone call from president though. President Anderson said "Elder Ovard i have been praying a lot and really thinking of people that could give talks/testimonies during our mini mission conferences with Elder Kopichke. Your name Elder Ovard keeps coming to my mind and so i would like for you to give a testimony of a miracle or a mission experience that has changed your life. Will you do that for me in our conference?" AHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO i thought hahahahhaha i willingly without hesitation accepted. As i look forward to this opportunity i give thanks to god. I really do. I'm not much of a public speaker however it has gotten better since being in the mission field haha but it should be fun!!
Also as far as the temple goes :) YEAHHHHH so we all in our entire mission we be involved with it from what i've heard. President says something like this shouldn't pass without letting every missionary be a part of it! I'm excited. I have been praying and hoping i just stay here in the Ft. Laud Zone though for one more transfer after this one. The missionaries here in the Ft Laud Zone will probably be involved with the temple A LOT! Sooo i'm hoping i will get to stay here!! It would be so much fun! The mission is sooo excited about the temple though. We all talk with our investigators and recent converts about it. There is projected to be like 100,000 people if not more walking through the temple during that time :) SOOO EXCITING!
Well I love you all! God is real and he loves each and every ONE of us!
Love ELDER OVARD
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