Worldly Excitement doesn't compare to Spiritual Success!

Family!!!! WAZZUP!!!!!

 

What an amazing week! All the worldly excitement and happiness that has been going on this past week didn't even compare to the day in which we had yesterday :)

 

Remember Juan? He was baptized yesterday and boy how amazing was his service! His kids came!!! His kids names are john and michael. Both of them are basically single and really need help in their lives. The church was amazing for them yesterday and it's amazing to see how god works. John is currently struggling with his wife and really just doesn't know what to do with his family. Well guess what the lesson was on yesterday in preisthood? Marriage and how we can strengthen our marriages and stuff. He asked if he could keep the copy of the conference talk that we were using. It was so awesome! I had the priviledge of baptizing juan. What an amazing experience it was for me. It increased my faith, desrie to follow christ, motivation to work harder and my desire to fulfill my purpose better as a missionary and do everything i can to baptize more! The whole experience of how we met Juan and how he had been prepared was really just a testimony builder for me! After his baptism he walked over and picked up a tithing envelope. He asked us how to fill that slip out and then he placed his money in there and gave it to bishop! His faith was something that I can't even write in words to you guys! Juan at this time is providing for himself as well as his two boys... both in which don't work and don't have jobs. Every lesson Juan would tell us how "his bank account is running low" but yet here he is putting fourth his faith WITHOUT fear and giving his 10 percent to god!!! It was something that I will never forget and as I watched him do this the light of christ was glowing in his eyes. He began in the water of baptism... got out and paid his tithing.... then before he left he had to go around a shake EVERYONES had because he expressed the joy and happiness of his heart!!! He was so happy and loving he even tried to give the Sister missionaries a hug haha we of course had to counsel him with that action but I will never forget Juan and his FAITH!

 

Also Rane... He wasn't able to get baptized because his son wasn't able to come down from orlando. So we pushed his baptism back a week. So this sunday we will help him enter the gates of eternal life. We are really excited about it and for the way god is blessing elder white and I at this time. As we finish up our 12 weeks together god is letting us know how please he is with the hard work we put forth. We are also planning and have the faith to baptize a few of our other investigators. We also know that John and Michael (juans kids) can be ready by this upcoming sunday. We will do everything in our power to make it happen.

 

Once again from the HEAT stand point!!!! haha WOW what a series huh :) Elder White and I MAY have made it down to the stadium for game 7!!! Lets just say... CRAZYYYYYYY haha it was so much fun to be there and be a part of it. One of the members that lives down there needed help that night and so we went down and on our way home we stopped by the stadium. It was something that we knew we just had to do and boy we both loved it! We were able to take a few pictures with the lil time we had but it was SO worth it!! As far as the parade goes... OUR ZL's happened to schedule a zone activity. so we don't have much time to head down to the parade but we are going to do everything in our power to make it down there for a minute. We at least gotta take a few pictures! When will we every have this opportunity again? to go to a championship parade haha a few of the missionaries that i was close with that are now home in UT they all sent me the parade route!! It was so funny! Each one of them said WOW AM I JEALOUS of you and elder white hahaha I tell you what! I have the best mission in the world. As well as the best family in the world!! God is and always has blessed me in my life. I am grateful for him! The blessing of just staying here in miami has been something that will always have a deep spot in my heart. I love it here. The temptation of coming back and visiting often after the mission will be something i will have to overcome haha I'm sure i will be leaving though next week. It's been about a year here and i feel blessed!

 

I love you all so much! I still haven't seen sister rogers. Elder White saw her last week though. He was on an exchange and he saw her. He said hey your elder ovards friend... she responded... AUSTIN!!! hahaha no elder ovard i'm austin to her still haha it was super funny he said.

 

I didn't see mason yesterday darn it!! We watched it though and it was awesome to see the prophet and apostles talk about the importance of missionary work. It is growing rapidly and god needs each and everyone of our abilities! I love you all and have a great week!!

 

ELDER OVARD!!

 

p.s i did get your package and the SC BASEBALL SHIRTS ARE SOOOOOOO SWEET!!! ima wear it today haha i love it thanks for that

This is me wearing the shirt I bought with the money Grandma Condie sent!  Tell her I love her and I am so grateful for her love.

JMP (Jose Maiti Park)  BASKETBALL!  This park is so sick!  This is street basketball courts underneath the freeway in downtown Miami.  I LOVE It!   Also there is a baseball field that we play at right next to JMP.  Lots and Lots of our P-Days are well spent here.

Not Much Longer in Miami

BOY BOY BOY i'm so excited to write you all this week!!!!!

 

Thanks for the EMAILS!!! I think the baby is slowin paige up a lil bit but it's all good ;) When is it due again i forgot? I'm telling you remembering things about back home is just impossible in the mission. Also you better name him after me.. aight.. be creative ;)

 

So what a week for ELDER WHITE and I. Can you believe we only have like 2 1/2 weeks left together. We are about it die haha it's so sad. I have definately got along with him as if he were my bff in utah. He's a stud and we love the same stuff but at the same time we understand our purpose here in miami and that is to BAPTIZE! speaking of baptism we didn't get any  this past week. The little girl jackie that we were planning on.. well her mom doesn't think she is ready. She thinks in order to be baptized she needs to be older. Remember her mom isn't a member either so were doing our best with the both of them. BUTTTTT good news.. After jackie told us she wanted to wait a lil bit Elder white and I began to talk. We came to the conclusion that it's not going to do us anything if we get discouraged or mad a lil bit. SO why don't we continue to have a good attitude and work hard. Well thats what we did and guess what. We met a guy named JUAN. We knocked on his door on wednesday and he came to church yesterday. In every class we went to he said.. "My names Juan, I met these missionaries a few days ago and i am going to be baptized next sunday!" haha It was awesome! He has his vision he can see where he needs to go and where god wants him to go. He is amazing. Funny thing is that he lives right on the corner next to the marlins stadium. For close to a month now everytime we've passed his house i had a feeling that we should go knock there. Everytime we would park the bikes, planning on going and harvesting there BUT something would always happen. Whether it's we got a phone call or we met someone else and walked to their house with them... whatever it was that happened we never knock this apartment. So finally on wednesday this past month we went and knocked this apartment building. Well turns out he just barely got out of the Hospital. He had a heart attack not too long ago and hasn't been home forever. So if we would have knocked that apartment any earlier, we probably would have missed him. Here we have like a 60 year old man that had been prepared by god in gods OWN TIME! God was able to use us as well as other people to direct and guide us to JUAN this beautiful wednesday afternoon. I just think what would have happened if we would've knocked this apartment building weeks earlier. What would have happened? Would we have found Juan? I don't know but I do know that GOD is carrying out this work and he blesses us when we do HIS will. So here we have Juan and Rane that are both preparing to be baptized this sunday. I have never felt more confident in solid baptisms then I do these two. Their both amazing and well WELL prepared by god!!

 

Everyone is saying i might not last much longer here. IDK why haha but we'll see. I sure have loved it. It's been amazing. Really truly has because i've been able to identify gifts and abilities that god has given me. I also have been able to identify and actually visualize these gifts in my patriarchal blessing. Then i've also been able to see the gifts that others have and understand what i need to do or study to acquire these gifts. I encourage each of you to read your P.B. look for these gifts or talents that god has given each of YOU! Through out this next week apply them and remember the gifts god has given you. Do everything you can to strengthen and make better these gifts. I promise you if you do god will bless you and he'll make your weaker gifts become strong!! Just like the scripture says haha

 

Now onto the heat!!!! DANG THEY BETTER WAKE UP haha I sure hope they win. Elder white and I keep talking about the parade. It's be so awesome to be here for it but we understand how blessed we've already been up until this point. It was so fun last week. To be down to the stadium with the finals going on. There is a sweet SWEET jersey there at the stadium. It's a HEAT BASEBALL JERSEY with james number 6 on the back haha it's 60 bucks though. Lets just say i ALMOST ALMOST whipped out some more of that santa clara first ward money haha i didn't though but it's still a temptation thats for sure. It was so awesome!!!!

 

Did you all like the new hairstyle in like every pic i sent home? haha it changes a lot i know but i like to mix things up here in the mish :) I'm glad dad sent that pic up to wad haha thats funny!

 

Anyways I better get to emailing president! Lil more responsiblity now with the same 1 hour time limit hah alove you all and keep being the amazing children of god you all are!!! YES MOM AND DAD your both children still haha love you PEACE

 

ELDER OVARD

Another Week Flew By!

FAMILIA!!!!

 

Dang each and every week I love getting on this computer here in the library to read the words of my lovely family! It is such a relief sometimes i tell ya!! haha Especially this past week I was so excited to hear from you all. To cut to the chase we didn't end up having any baptisms this past week :( We were so bummed out with it all. All the families and people that we had planned like all disappeared. We weren't able to get in contact with any of them like all week. It was a busy week though for everyone around here. All the kids finished school up this past week. Here is a lil bit different as well. They have an test and if they don't pass it then they don't move onto the next grade, But if they do pass it then everyone celebrates and throws parties and stuff. They also do graduation for like every grade. So with all these things going on it made it hard to find our families and people to baptize. It's okay though because we understand that it was all a learning experience. God is teaching us something right now and thats the only reason we are having this test. The life is full of challenges and test but without them how would we show our love and our faith to god? This week god taught us a lot. Patience, Repentance, Obedience, Importance of covenants, etc... there is so so much that we learned. We are looking to be even better missionaries this next week and begin seeing with our eyes the blessings of god. We know their there and will come! Remember Rane? He is our investigator that is waiting for his son to come and baptize him? Well his son will be here on the 23rd and so we will have that baptism for sure. Then also we have so many possiblities. Yesterday a girl and her father came to church. Jackie is the girls name and Minor the dad. Minor is a less active member and Jackie is the daughter. She wants to be baptized this next week. I know it's going to be good because it will cause her father to get reinvolved in the church. The mom will eventually see the change and blessing and want to be baptized as well. It's so awesome though to see the joy in families because of the gospel.

 

Okay onto the rain hahaha WOW!!! Elder white and i had so much fun a few days ago!! It's just crazy how much it rains around here. Especially some days. It's crazy! So on Thursday i think it was we got soaked. So So soaked. We were riding out bikes through puddles that where higher then our bike tires hahahaha it was awesome!!!! Mom no i don't need shoe covers i'll be fine! But wow!!!! haha so so sick! We were going faster through them then cars were thats how big these puddles were;) haha don't worry though always safety first! Elder white and i compared us to just jumping in a swimming pool. we would'nt have got any wetter.. straight up it was crazy!!

 

Also the HEAT!!! haha what are we going to do with them? They make it hard to work around here. EVERYONE loves the heat and is always watching their games when they should be having appointments with us haha. The other day though one of the members took us to Burger King. It was 8 oclock at night and well what do you know the Heat game was on. :) we got to watch a whole quarter hahaha that was like game 7 with the pacers or something. Also members know that Elder white is like a die hard heat fam so everyone always text us with updates of scores and stuff haha it's so funny. Reminds me of home when i'd be at a game and have to text dad or something!! We are actually going to head down to the heat stadium today to see if they got any cool stuff for the finals. Pictures that we can take and stuff. It'll be fun!

 

Also I need to get maynerds email. I wanna write that kid. I figure i write dev i better keep up with the cousins at least. It's hard to write everyone haha but yet pday were so tired letters can be hard sometimes! Anyways i don't need anything specific. I love you all so much! Keep being awesome and let me know if i can do anything to help you all!

 

Elder Ovard

Matt, Kenzie, and Liam at Red  Robin.  I ws doing splits in their area so I called to see if they wanted to the missionaries to come to lunch!!  haha  It was great seeing them!

Great District Meeting

WHATS UP!!!!

 

Another weeks already down! I can't believe it! Sounds like you all had one busy BUSY week haha I can say the same here in miami, it was great! God blessed us so much this past week it was amazing! We didn't get any baptisms unfortunately but guess what... We're planning on 2 families and a cuban guy for this sunday haha I want to first talk about this cuban guy! So we met him by knocking on his door. He let us in and we said a prayer. Well turns out he told us that he was 89 years old. You would have never guessed. He's still just a movin around like grizz would. He can still drive and everything! It's unreal. Anyways we met him on friday. We went back and taught him the resto on saturday and he came to church on sunday! It was such a blessing. During our lesson with him on saturday i quoted the first vision to him and he was just basically crying. He said I believe Joseph smith is a prophet and I know the book of mormon is true! BAMMMM what more do we need right! haha it was so awesome! So he came to church on sunday. Dressed in a suit.. nice shoes and a nice hat to top it off! Such a stud. He's super funny and isn't too shy so he talks to everyone. Well we left him in a class by himself because we had to teach gospel principles and guess what? Him and the teacher came outta that class like flirting with each other! We were like WHAT!!!! haha later on after church this sister in the ward came up to us and said... "get him baptized next week... then were getting married" hahahha what the heck!!! It was hilarious! SO SO funny!

We also had our 2 families show up and their both preparing for baptism this sunday. We know that god is blessing us tremendously right now. It's unreal to see what can actually be done when you put your will and desire to gods. Its the best.

Another highlight to the week was district meeting! Never thought as a DL i would look forward to teaching and look forward to preparing lessons. Well... this past week in District Training it was awesome. The AP's showed up. So Elder Gust was there. Sure enough I had planned to share my baseball teams experience last year. I wasn't sharing it though just to share it. It was a lot to do with that paralyzed guy that came and talked to our team after they took away all our wins from us. I related his teaching and the dedication that our team had to the gospel. I'll make it short and sweet for you all but it was like this... 1. VISION. (gates and I after losing my Jr year to spanish. We had set a vision and goals and plans to win state the next year.) 2. DONT BE AFRAID TO ASK. (the paralyzed guy and how he talked to us in secrist room. He put a water bottle up high on the shelf and told someone to reach up and grab it with no legs. no one could do it. So he asked coach secrist to get it for him.) 3. FAITH. (always have faith in your teammates and coaches) 4. TRUST (trust in one another and trust in god to help you accomplish your vision.) 5. NEVERENDING FOLLOW-UP. (the paralized guy was there at every game after that.) So i went through my story relating it to us as missionaries and well... everyone in the room was crying afterwards. The spirit was so strong and I was so grateful that god helped me relay the message that i had planned. Afterwards i had a comp study with the APs and they told me how amazing District Training was. They told me it was the best they've ever been to. Then when i was alone with them they said watch out here comes the new AP haha i had to fight against that one! It was awesome though. I felt like I was accomplishing what god wants me to accomplish and because i helped the district god helped me with these people preparing for baptism. I felt so grateful to have god on my side. I realized there are so many things, so many experiences in my life that i can learn from and strengthen in the gospel.

More good news,... guess what??? ELDER HUNTER AND I ARE GOING ON AN EXCHANGE THIS WEEK!!! haha YESS!!!! just like good old MTC times! It's going to be awesome!! I love that kid.

As far and shirts and stuff go.. I wouldn't worry about sending any yet. I still haven't tried on the ones that grandma condie sent. This are awesome and she sent a super cool tie! i'll wear them their just so nice and white i don't wanna open them yet haha she's the best and i'm grateful for her sending them. I know they'll be perfect!

I'm bummed to hear grandpa is selling the cabin. Tell him to keep it around and i'll come home and make some money and buy it from him haha i will miss that cabin. I lived up there with my buddies!

Also I can't believe all the excitement in SC with sports haha MVP MVP haha The gates huh! That'll be so awesome. 2 of them just being studs in the world of sports!! Sound like my heat needa step it up huh ahhhh i hope they win. They've been in the prayers for elder white and i the past few days haha

Anyways I better get emailing president. I love you all so very much! Keep up the good work with everything and thanks so much once again for the love support and letters that i always get from you guys! Love ya Lemme know if theres anything i can do to help!!

Love ELDER OVARD

Do Good, Trust God, Don't Worry!

WOW!!!! what an exciting week for my beloved family there in the greatest promised land on earth UT!! haha I'm so very proud of each and everyone of you! Will you all get on your knees... now if possible and offer up a prayer to our Heavenly Father of how blessed we truly are! Thank him for our family. For the wonderful blessings that we are all recieving in our family! I promise if you do this and countinue forward god will be right there by your side in every situation. So offer up that prayer of gratitude!!

 

Your all such great inspiring examples to me and I love how successful you are all becoming through hard work and trusting in god. Aynsley THE BABY OF THE HOUSE is finally outta the house!!! haha JK I can't believe she already graduated though and is now on her cruise! It's crazy!! Feels like yesterday me and my boys were headed down to cali for our trip! Time flies by and it's unreal. I can't believe i'm creeping up on my year mark in the mission already. It just doesn't even make sense how fast time is going by!

 

As far as me in FLORIDA!!!! THE HEAT ARE GOING TO WIN!! WE ARE GOING TO BAPTIZE 7 SOULS THIS MONTH. (thats our goal)!! I AM NOW THE NEW DISTRICT LEADER hahaha and ELDER WHITE AND I LIVE ALONE NOW.

 

Sister rogers i wasn't able to see her yet ;( it was a bummer haha but from what i heard she is up in Ft. Lauderdale right now. I totally thought she was coming here to miami but i guess not. What happened though was the 2 elders that were living with us are now gone. Elder fisher went home and elder allen got transfered. Their area got white washed. So now 2 sisters are in their area! They live in the big high riser building that we DID live in. So elder white and I have the house all to ourselves haha. So it's a 3 bedroom house and pretty dang big! We live there alone!! Like i also said i am now the new DL... uh ohhh haha I am loving it though. My district consist of 4 sisters haha what the heck right!! Elder Ovard with all sisters.. Everyone that knows me just thinks it's hilarious!!! They also say.. what the heck he doesn't need more girls!!!! hahaha whatever thats suppose to mean. Dad that picture that lady sent you was the 2 new sisters in our district. Also sister dunford the one that had the brother pass away is still in the district. I was happy about that! She's awesome! I already gave my first District training though and am in the process of planning my second one for tomorrow! It's such an opportunity to serve and help these sisters. To become the missionaries that god wants us to be. I'm so excited to perform miracles through the help of christ this transfer. Next transfers will be on aynsleys bday. July 3rd.

 

I feel so blessed! God knew that this was going to be a position for me to help others and to help them to find success. My first District training i trained on a vision. Having a vision and praying before we act upon the vision so we know that it's what god wants us to do. Well i focused this vision on helping us find more people. This past week was one of the best finding weeks ever in our district history. It's all becase of the vision that we all set and made. We left success up to the lord and his power. Not our own personal abilities. It was amazing to see how he could help us so much with finding new children. Now were going to focus on getting these people through the funnel. To church to conversion to baptism. It'll be awesome and i give so much thanks to god for giving me this opportunity!

 

The family wasn't baptized :( we were super sad about it. We've been having a hard time getting in contact with them. Their so cool though and know church and baptism is what they need to do. They will be baptized this month and they'll be part of those 7 baptisms were going to have. We have another guy named ranea. His sons are members  and he is going to be baptized. probably not for a week or 2 though. His son is going to come from honduras to baptize him. It'll be super special and were grateful we can be a part of it! God is so so good to all of us!

 

Elder White my son is still the best! We have become best friends haha truly!! His desire to work and baptize is what is going to lead him to success!

 

I love you all and know that god will continue to bless you as you do whats right. As you do his will instead of your own! Always remember these times of blessings and how were able to always have them. IT TRULY IS ONLY THROUGH OUR ONE AND ONLY SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST! love you all have an awesome week!!

 

DO GOOD.. TRUST GOD... DONT WORRY!!!!!

 

Elder Ovard

Devin Anthony going to Ft. Lauderdale Florida Mission

Familia!!!

WAZZUP... IM SO STOKED FOR THE TEAM haha thats so awesome!!! I'm not going to lie when i saw the picture and realized they DID IT i was super suprised!! I'm so glad they pulled it off though and really finished things off right! I was basically crying when i saw the jersey of KJ. I think its so awesome how they did that for him. He truly was a part of that team. I can only imagine how hard that must of been though for his family! I sure hope they will be able to cope with all the excitement and stuff the next few weeks. I love that family so much and know that their amazing! I'm glad you were all able to make it up for the game and watch it! Hopefully you all thought of me ;) jk! Just tell me this.. Was it as good a game and last year when we won? haha Dang i can't believe it! I'm so happy DH's lost though they are always the worst fans. 

As of MIAMI!!! It's been awesome and is about to get even more awesome with ELDER ANTHONY hahaha WOW!!! i can't believe that. He is going to bring some life, character to the mission that is for sure! I'm super excited though! Were going to have all of snow canyon high here in FLORIDA here soon. Dang. Sister rogers comes in tomorrow and then Devin in a few months haha who's next?? That made me super excited though to see another one from the amazing gubler family coming here to FL. I'll be looking out for him thats for sure. Maybe president will even have me train him ;) haha I think it's awesome he gets to go to mexico to learn spanish then come here. That would have been awesome. I wish i would've got that treatment. :)

The work is awesome!! We went on an exchange with Elder Plowman one of the AP's this past week and it was amazing. We talked about setting visions and then through if then statements relying on the lord and trusting in him to help us accomplish our vision. It was awesome! Our vision was to find someone in the hour we had that was going to come to church the next day then prepare for baptized the following week. So we did that then took it up in prayer and told they lord, IF we do these things THEN will you bless us and help us find this soul that will come to church with one days notice and then be baptized. WELL FAMILY GUESS WHAT!!!! we found a FAMILY. The mom is from honduras and all of her family are members. She's the only one that isn't a member. She misses the church and wants to go. She told us her husband needs it as well and the kids need to learn about christ as well. So at church we had all 7 members of this big family at church. They are amazing. 5 of them are baptism age. We are going to work with them this week and try and put forth other visions to help them into the waters of baptism this sunday. It'll be an 8 day FAMILY baptism. We are super excited to work with them. Their amazing! 

Also we did end up moving into the house. Thursday was the day. The first day in my mission where I never put church clothes on. haha all day we were in shorts and a tshirt. We got everything moved in and now were settled down and loving it! It's awesome. I love the house. I miss calle ocho and the view of the city but... the new sisters coming in will get that i guess! I'll take some pictures though and send them to you all.

Elder white is awesome I love him haha we have had so much fun together! I never thought i was going to love anyone more then my father Elder diaz (who goes home tomorrow by the way :(  ) but i think my son is right up there with him. He's the best. We have so much fun togetrher. We get along so well and just are excited to work hard. He's the best. This week we are looking ahead and showing our faith to baptize 5 children of god! I'm so excited. 

Sorry was a late email today. All the internet at the libraries are down so were here at the church and all 4 of us elders are emailing on one computer so we are making them short and sweet and i just happen to be the last one to email haha

I love you all though and am so grateful for your testimonies in this gospel and for the example that you all have shown me in my life. Mom for the friend letter thing you'll probably just have to copy and paste stuff. I'll try and send a letter but we'll see. i don't think it'll get there in time. Tell maynerd to have a fun time partyin and then be ready to party with the mexicans haha i'm happy for him to get out! I love you all and i promise next week will be a better email. Peace

ELDER OVARD

Loved the Mother's Day call!

COMO ESTAN?

Where do i even start with yal?? haha YESTERDAY was bomb!!!! It was so much fun getting to talk with each of you!! I loved doing the phone and then going to skype! You all seem so happy and it makes me happy. It always is reassuring knowing that i have a loving family in the gospel back home. One less thing i gotta worry about:) I love each of you. It's crazy next time i do that with you all their will be another lil one there with you guys haha Paiges baby will be out and about! It's crazy haha.

Idk what we'll do. I actually thought of that same thing today while i was in the shower haha elder hunter and i could be together and then just go home together halfway through the transfer.. Idk we'll see though i'm not worried about it i have a lot of time left to figure it out :) AND i told you i'm going on my 10 month haha dang you made me feel older then i really was!! It's not a good thing to be getting old in the mission mom haha I'm super excited to see what happens with transfers and stuff though. It'll be cool. Also be sure to fill me in with the team haha i sure hope they can pull it off and get another championship for themselves! It's the best feeling and accomplishment ever!

 

My mothers day ended up being a lil bitter sweet but it's crazy how god works! So after i got done talking with you guys on the phone elder white and i went out and contacted a few people. we contacted and contacted then eventually it was time to go home! We found some amazing people, we just got done talking and we were all just super happy. Well thats when we found out that a sister in our district had a brother pass away yesterday. Her brother crashed on his fourwheeler or something on his way to church. It so sad and the rest of the night we were praying and really trying to focus on this sister and her needs at this time. well if we rewind a lil bit. On last wednesday after district training Elder White and I went out to lunch with this sister. Well i was talking a lot with both sisters about their families and how their all doing and just different stuff. Well This sister that had this tragedy in her family has a sister thats like 20. So me being the crazy boy I am was joking around with her and eventually i got her sisters address. Was I planning on writing her sister? no not really. I don't have time. So i got her sisters address more as a joke.. Well little did i know God had a plan behind me getting this address. He knew why i got it and NOW i know as well. So now we'll fast forward back to last night when we found out about this sisters brother that passed away yesterday. So after we found out the only thing we wanted to do was pray for this sister. That she may have the comfort and the love from our savior at this time. That through christ she was going to be able to overcome this trial. So we prayed. As a companionship and as individuals. We prayed! Thats all we could do to help! So that night after i said my personal prayer asking to please give this sister the comfort she needs.. I had the spirit of god testify to me that I had a role in helping this family. I have a role in helping this sister. I couldn't figure out though what my role was.. so thats when i had to rely on the spirit again. The spirit then Testified to me once again. This time he testified to me that I got that address to the sisters sister.... not to write her... but to write the family. Tell them how much our heavenly father loves them and especially how much our heavenly father and jesus christ love their daughter who is here serving amongst us right now. To tell the family how amazing of a missionary their daughter and sister is. How strong and power she is. ETC... ETC... The spirit testified to me through the holy ghost that this is what i need to do! I thought and thought about it and i know without a doubt it's what god wants me to do. So today i'm going to do it. I'm going to write this family that i don't know and do just as the H.G directed me to do. I know by following this inspiration god is going to bless and help this family!

 

I love my family and i'm grateful for each one of you in my life!! Keep being amazing and doing whats right and i promise god will always be with us in every situation! Love you and have an amazing week

 

ELDER OVARD