Faith In Our Harvest!

MI QUERIDO FAMILIA QUE ESTA CAMBIANDO RAPIDO!!!!

Time just continues to be crazy eh? (ayns you like eh?) haha I can't believe it! It's interesting to think of everything AMAZING that will be happening here in the near future. At this point i must say that i'm stoked for Aynsley and can't wait for her to get in the mission. I'm excited to be able to share a month with her. TOGETHER serving the lord with all our heart, might, mind and strength! It's awesome!

Mom as far as the test goes i will be able to do it next pday if needs be. I can come into the office and do it! No problem! So if you do that it'll probably have to be worked out with Elder Singleton again just like you mentioned! Thanks for helping me out with that!

I haven't heard from Tanner either so i'm not sure whats going on there. If you could get with him and his mom and let me know that'd be great! I still am worry-less about it all though haha still doesn't feel real which I am grateful to say! I know that when the time does hit however it'll be time and I will feel accomplished as long and I continue to give it my ALL.

This past week for me was bomb!! It was bomb for a few reasons! 

The first being that my companions and I had to prepared a training for MLC (mission leadership council). Basically it's a training normally done by President Anderson and then us a little bit. Then all the Zone leaders take this training to their zones and train them on it. It's so much fun and it's always inspirational. Once again though President Anderson asked me and my companions for the 3rd month in a row to do a short training :) Exciting right? haha Normally we just do the role play and thats it. BUT now president has been asking to teach and train on like the reasoning for the role play and everything. I love it. It's so fun. However this past training my companions and I had the hardest time figuring out what to train on and why we should train on it. So we prayed and prayed. Finally we felt as thought he mission needs to be trained on FAITH IN OUR HARVEST. Or in other words. Faith to Find. So we finally felt good about training on this topic. Then we began trying to figure out how. How could we have doctrine, principle and application that is simple so every missionary could understand it. So we began thinking and thinking. Then we began doing and doing... Well family guess what. We got completely done basically and then it just didn't feel right. My comps and I questioned ourselves and questioned ourselves. Then we prayed and prayed. None of it felt right. The only thing that felt right was the topic FAITH IN OUR HARVEST! So we erased everything and we went about training it in a different way. We decided to do it using principles taught in a talk written by Gene R. Cook.  called "Qualifications for the Work" (Aynsley look it up!!) It is a well written talk that talks about a few different things. Basically it's all focused around infusing faith. So thats what we did. We read about Faith in the BD. How miracles confirm our faith. And how the more faith we produce the more miracles we will see. Then we read the story of Ammon in the book of mormon. Him going and gathering the scattered sheep. We read the entire story then we picked it apart. We picked it apart and showed how Ammon spiritually created, he used positive faith filled words, and how he showed forth faith filled actions also. These were the principles. Then we had an amazing role play in which we would do a harvest approach and then stop and pause in the middle of the role play and ask the missionaries questions about their thoughts and what not. It was all planned out perfectly!!! Well family it took us like 8 hours to prepare and we felt horrible about how long it took us to prepare it. We didn't know what to do. But we got it done. Well long story short that 8 hours it took really made us sad because thats a long time. We didn't know if it was right.. WELL after the training we have had missionaries call us up and thank us for the training. They call us and tell us miracles that they've seen because of the training. It is awesome to see! Really the training was a miracles in itself :) It was so fun to see and now the entire mission is doing it and we are ALL see mighty miracles because of it!! God is good!!!

Also family Andrew our investigator. Sabreenas BF is now getting baptized. He told us the other day that he's ready and he received his answer. We are so excited for him!!! It's so awesome! Sorry i don't have time to tell you that story but i will later :) love yall!!

Elder Ovard