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Everybody,
So with all these Family reunions, I better be getting some pictures!! haha, It's hot here too, It was 40 Degrees Celsius just the other day (I don't know what that is in Farenheit, it was hot!) The work is going slowly but like a stone it rolls foreward. In my area, all of our progressing investigators quit progressing and the ones that have had pontential have dropped of the map. So this week it's all about finding those new elect that haven't been taught before. The ones that we have been teaching I just hope and pray and check on them every now and again to see if they want to make that step. well here in Ukraine there are a couple of cultral things I can share with you. First of all, Fashion. It's very skanky, not good at all, the women are all wearing see-through shirts, short skirts or short shorts, It's ridiculous. ok thats enough on that . . I want to talk about something uplifting. . Sucess A successful missionary or person does not base their success on others agency, It's about having that faith in Jesus Christ and putting trust in his plan for us. (The Fundamentals), then repentance, we all make mistakes but making that continually effort to go and try to become more like our savoiur. The next one is tricky --Baptisim, , it's about renewing the convanants that you made and keeping them, If you forgotten them, Remind yourself (Mosiah 18:6-10 D&C 20:77-80),then as we go through our lives, we can listen to the spirit, he's our companion, always with us when we are worthy, always there to help, warn, lift, and inspire. As a misssionary I have the wonderful oppurtunity to invite people everyday to particpate in these wonderful steps, not just those who might be doing it the first time but those who sometimes lose their way. But it all starts with the faith. All starts with a desire, Do you want this life to be something more than work? Do you want to be forgiven of your sins through the atonement of Jesus Christ? Do you want Joseph Smith to be a Prophet of God That restore the Gospel, the way to be happy in this life and the next? Let that desire work in you, so that it instills in you the desire to pray, the desire to do those things you know you should do-- read the scriptures, Repent, obey the commandments. Then your faith will grow, you'll receive that wittness, but only untill after you've let that desire work untill you've showed that faith through your works. I love you all, remember that your indavidual sucess shouldn't be based on thers agency but on how obeident, faithful, and dedicated you are. When you begin to base you success on others you begin to infringe on their angency and then you have failed.Well I love you all and I'll think of something about Ukraine to tell you next ime.
Elder Davis