3/31/14

Good Morning!!!

Hope the week was well, didn't e-mail yesterday because it was interviews with the mission president so that was exciting, had a wonderful training about the Book of Mormon and our mission is starting a Book of Mormon feast!!! Reading the Book of Mormon in 90 days!!! From April 1st to whenever that time is up, I don't really know or bother to find out. You should join in if you want to.

Twas a good week, although I am now shifted up into the North, not the real North just the 'North' which is Whangarei back where I started my mission. So after my Auckland experience in Mangere the North called me back home. something about this place then, hopefully I can pick up a few more hongi's before I head back to Auckland whenever that is. Other than that, really not too much has happened.

Just struggling a little bit with finding new investigators, they had 6 last week, but they all dropped before I got here, but we have a few potentials and we are looking at heading out to the Te Horo BRANCH out in Pipiwai where there is a little girl waiting to be baptized. So that will be AWESOME!! The Lord has blessed me heaps out here on my mission.

So a little thought for you, I realized the the Atonement is a little bit deeper than we think it is. I reckon that if we really understand how deep the Atonement went, we wouldn't ever be sad, or feel lost, or have bad days. The Atonement is everything, it is literally the breath of exaltation and you can feel it when someone is acting in their priesthood authority or directed by the Spirit when we speak. that is exaltation within our grasp but it is the Atonement that makes it a reality, because the Atonement is real. Watch the biblevideo on the Garden of Gethsemane that the church produced, that is powerful, we watched it with an investigator on trade-off and it just made her feel good. So that was nice.

Have a goodish week!

Love

Elder Long