Well the spirit is real and the spirit is strong even today :) You will not believe the wonderful experience that just happened to me!! So this past week i had been praying and praying for dad. That he might be able to score that job with SWIG! I caught myself evening praying too much for it haha It was like every prayer i would include it in there just because i want dad to be surrounded by good people while he works! WELL.... Today i got onto my email.. i immediately opened up dads email. I read and read and BAMMMM there it was. Dad says "I guess the big news for me is that I am starting a new job tomorrow!" God had given me the miracle i had been asking for! Immediately as i read i began to cry a little bit. I was tearing up a bit with joy in my heart. A joy that only comes from the goodness of god. A joy that caused me to feel LOVED by my heavenly father. I then offered up a prayer of gratitude, thanking god for the blessing he had bestowed upon me and my father. I then in my prayer stated... "God thank thee, if thou needest anything of me, please put opportunities in my path so that i can give thee thanks!"
Family thats when something AMAZING happened. Literally 2 min after i prayed, i received a phone call. From a sister in the ward that called as she cried telling me that her son was in the ER and they were waiting on test results and she was wondering if we could give her son a blessing that everything will be okay. I then asked okay when would you like us to come? She said NOW!! Well, as each of you know today is our pday- we were in the middle of emailing and soooo SOOOO very badly i just wanted to tell her okay we will be there in an hour or two after were done emailing.. but then i realized. I realized that, the thought of procrastinating and waiting did not come from god. I realized that was the adversary convincing me that my personal desires and wants, were more important then using the power of the priesthood and the power of service! Then immediately the spirit took me back to my prayer.. The words that i had stated... "God thank thee, if thou needest of me, please put opportunities in my path so that i can give thee thanks!" Once the spirit humbled me and reminded me of the promise i had just made with god, immediately without hesitation i told this sister in our ward. Okay we will be there in 5 minutes, and off we went!
Well family as i get back here to the computer now. Only 30 minutes later, It causes me to ponder and reflect on the experience i just had. Ponder and reflect on the power of god. The power of prayer. The power of asking. The power of Service. I'm sooooo very grateful to see these little miracles happening in my life. To see god granting me DIRECT blessings for the effort i am giving! Family i want to invite each of you this week to look for opportunities to give thanks and give service to others. Pray for these opportunities and I promise you god WILL put them in your path just as he did in mine!!!
Well what a way to start out a weekly email huh!! haha Okay fam how is life?? Mine is going soooooooo great!!!! Time is still cruising by but other then that it's going good. So as you all know transfers were this past week. My new companions name is ELDER TESCH. He is from Roy Utah and boy oh boy he is a kick. This is the first transfer for him as a zone leader and he is trippin haha I love being his companion though. We get along really well! We have been planning for our zone a lot and have some incredible ideas and things planned out. We WILL get 30 baptisms here in the month on february as a zone and were excited about it. As you all know the temple is coming and it will be in our zone SOO our theme to the month is #LookToTheTemple. We are excited. We also cut out a huge temple out of paper and then made it into a puzzle. So for each baptism we have we connect a piece of the puzzle. This will help us all stay focused on our goal and focused on the purpose that we've promise god this month. WERE SO PUMPED!!!!! Also this past week i was able to go on exchanges with the AP's!! There are amazing haha i always love being with them! One of them Elder O'neil came with me in my area here in hollywood. We had soooo much success. Family after family. God was sooooo good to us! Truly though we were amazed. It was fun to be able to have a great day like that!
Also this week something special happened. There was a ward/stake/area broadcast from orlando. Elder perry was there and boy oh boy he was a kick. That man has sooo much enthusiasm towards the gospel and towards missionary work it's not even funny! I love him! He inspired me to be even better!
Well family i don't know if i have much more to tell you for the week. Oh wait I do.... :) So this transfer is only a 5 week transfer. So i may only be with Elder Tesch for 5 weeks who knows. Also i did kinda have a chance to talk with pres anderson about when i should be headed home and he said to just have ayns go about everything and we'll make it work! He says it's just hard telling me when i'm going home just because it'll be a new mission president. When i'm in my interview with him though i'll ask and we will be able to set a date i think.
Anyways I love you all soooo very much! Keep being strong followers of christ! I love you and may god be with you!!! "When you do this NO longer is it your life, but it BECOMES a life as the Saviors!!!"
LOVE ELDER OVARD
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