Great Week,new Calling

Mom's Side note: Since this email I received this additional email:

Pres. Vest called me Wednesday, and said "I need a pure heart and clean hands for next transfer, I felt that you were the one prepared, can I count on you? it will be a pleasure to work with you" that's the curve ball, I'm not sure where I'm going next, I find out tomorrow....but something's up. 

 I don't know it's just a big transition. My new comp is a body builder, so I might be getting beefed up lol. It's just a big step for me. 

I'm being transferred to Liberty Missouri to serve as a Zone Leader. That's by AoA and liberty jail. 

This week was great! But I'm super tired. We get to take one of our investigators to the visitors center tomorrow, super excited about that! And I just licked another Elders foot.....side note....btw....you do weird things when transfers are around the corner...anyway! We had a solid week, went on our last exchange for the transfer. President Vest called me and threw a curve ball, so I don't know where I'm going to be next week.....yay! 

Here's my journal entry on the Atonement! 

 I like the assurance of repentance. If I were to cut my arm on accident, would I just let myself bleed out everywhere, or would I give aid to it? Well I know I need to give aid to it because if I don't, it will become infected, or bleed enough that I pass out. Same with our spirits. Do we just suffer in guilt and pain or do we apply the aid of the Atonement? I know that if I don't give aid to my spiritual wounds, they will become infected with doubt, the faith I did have would weaken, and eventually I would spiritually pass out. Oh why do we automatically want to cover our wounds with dirt instead of medicine? The Atonement can heal our wounds, and awake and arouse our faculties, we will become reconciled to God. We can become strong, the Lord can heal us. Or we can continue the shame game that the adversary loves to play. I believe there is a much better way. We don't have to suffer the pain of anguish if we would humbly submit to the lords way, we may feel growing pains at first, but we will find that it is, in the end, easier than fake ideas, emotions and deceiving enticements from the adversary. We sometimes live our lives in complete and utter misery, when we don't have to. Pride can be a deadly factor, and will yield no good fruit, but as we humbly nourish, and prune, and dig, and dung our spiritual trees, and graft in the light of the Atonement into our spiritual vines. We will begin to experience the change that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has to offer us. The seed of faith will begin to take root in us, we will begin to understand his will, the spirit will be our guide, and "our confidence [will] wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon [our] souls as the dews from heaven. 46The Holy Ghost shall be [our] constant companion, and [our] scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and [our] dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto [us] forever and ever." The Atonement is the access of spiritual power and strength. We cannot walk on a broken leg. Likewise, we cannot teach with a broken soul.

Loving the mission! And the people!