Week 50

Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:58 AM

Howdy family, 

So, details wise on the transfer and everything...I have limited.  I will be going to Wake Forest as District Leader.  I have no idea how many elders and or sisters are in that district.  I do know that the assistants are in that district (oh great...first leadership assignment, and the assistants are going to be watching every step...watch me crash and burn ;) just kidding but seriously) and I'm pretty sure there are some sisters (which is scary enough as it is...)

Last Friday, we were up in Knightdale for our leadership meeting.  It was super good.  I learned a ton, despite the fact that I semi felt slightly inadequate.  The Lord helped me out though.  I love being able to talk with Him.   :)  

The outage is finally over and things are starting to settle back down.  Our 2nd counselor in the Branch Presidency is returning from less activity ;) haha, but seriously, that's what this outage does to people.  More Elders that I really look up to are going home which is sad...they're all dying :(

I don't really have much to say.  This last week blew by.  It was like a hurricane came through (it didn't but seriously, I wish it had...I love hurricanes).  So, the Book of Mormon musical thingy is coming to Durham, which is going to add publicity to Mormons (be it semi-negative publicity).  That comes in February.  

It's starting to get pretty warm and humid.  I sweat like a 3000 lbs hog in the middle of a rain forest volcano mix...not possible you say? Ah Contraire, it's like I have a fountain drink system coming off my forehead...attractive, if I do say so myself ;)  but it's nothing like it will be in July and August...especially up in the foothills :)  So, something else...I think I'm going to be in a tri-panionship for 6 weeks in Wake Forest.  That should be interesting for sure.  Originally, I was supposed to finish a visa-hold person's training who was waiting to go to Brazil, but he left to Brazil ergo...I won't be finishing his training.  

Hopefully, I can get everything packed today...well, I kind of have to, I guess.  

Sounds like y'all are staying busy at least.  We had a really powerful testimony born on Sunday.  This man who was baptized in the early nineties hasn't really been fully active in the church.  He knows it's not the person his Heavenly Father needs him to be and it hurts and embarrasses him.  The other night though, he got a letter from his nephew who is just getting out of the MTC.  The people in the MTC told the missionaries to think about someone who is slipping or something like that and to write them.  He chose his uncle.  Seriously, that one letter may have just changed this man's eternal destiny.  It was powerful.  At the end of his testimony, he said something like "today is the first day of the rest of my life."  Amazing thing, the spirit.  What would we do without the spirit.  Pretty much nothing, probably.

I love my Lord.  I love my God.  I love this church.  I know it is His, our Savior's.  I wish everyone else could see it.  We talked to a Weslyen (sp) Methodist the other day.  His church is basically, in a nut shell, our church without the priesthood authority.  John Wesley, the original Methodist, saw the perfect consecrated church in Acts and tried to pattern a church after that knowing that it wasn't going to be exact.  Modern Methodists have gotten away from it slightly, which is why the Weslyen broke off.  I wish they would all just join the church.  Everyone.  Why not? Honestly.  I know the Book of Mormon is true.  I know it.  No one could ever tell me otherwise.  And I definitely know that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of the Lord.  How grateful I am for all he went through so that we could have what we have.  One day I'll be able to personally thank him.  That will be a wonderful day.

Thanks for being such a great family.  I love you all.  Stay strong, for the Gospel is true...and what else matters :)

Love ,

Elder Patty