Weekly Letter September 21, 2015
Well today I'm celebrating 2 decades of life. It's been a great 20 years and although I don't have time to dwell in the past I would like to thank all of you for the role you've played in helping me get to this point. Love you all.
Today we have planned to play some basketball, eat Domino's Pizza, and write home. Should be a great day.
This week we got a third companion, Elder Ruiz. He's been a really hard worker and has a lot of great ideas. He's from Leon, Nicaragua and has 15 months in the mission. Unfortunatly he will be leaving today and we will be receiving yet a new companion. He is also from Nicaragua and has three months in the mission. I think his name is Elder Hebberth or something like that. This will be my fourth trio in the mission.
We had a great week this week, placing four baptismal dates, finding fifteen new investigators and doing more than 70 contacts. We were going to have a baptism this week but on the day of the baptism our investigator woke up with the mosquito virus Chikungunya. She couldn't get out of bed and we had to cancel the baptism. She should be baptized this Saturday if she gets better.
One thing I've been focusing on this week is bearing my testimony of the truth of the gospel. Truly a testimony of the truth of divine principles is essential to develop attributes of obedience and faith.
Neal A. Maxwell taught, "It is vital to know that there REALLY is a God, that there REALLY is a Savior, Jesus Christ, that there REALLY is an impending immortality for all men, that there REALLY will be a judgment with genuine personal accountability, and that there REALLY is a purpose in life and a divine plan of happiness for man. When we know such basic truths as these, then we know what REALLY matters, how to approach life and how to view man in the universe."
President Joseph F. Smith taught, "The greatest achievement mankind can make in this world is to familiarize themselves with divine truth, so thoroughly, so perfectly, that the example or conduct of no creature living in the world can ever turn them away from the knowledge that they have attained."
We live, as prophesied of Lehi of old, in "a mist of darkness." Satan has been busy mixing the color pallete of truth and falsehood for centuries to confuse us in these latter days. Truly we must hold onto the iron rod to guide us through the half truths and philosophies of men that exist in our days. I love the words of the hymn "Oh Say, What is Truth":
Yes, say, what is truth? 'Tis the brightest prize To which mortals or Gods can aspire. Go search in the depths where it glittering lies, Or ascend in pursuit to the loftiest skies: 'tis an aim for the noblest desire.
The sceptre may fall from the despot's grasp When with winds of stern justice he copes. But the pillar of truth will endure to the last, And its form-rooted bulwarks outstand the rude blast And the wreck of the full tyrant's hopes...Truth, the sum of existence, will weather the worst, Eternal, unchanged, evermore.
This work will go forward because it is true. God will keep his promises. Hold to the rod of truth and do not let the breeze of trend or the gust of trial make you let go. Truth is the pillar of eternity and though the great and spacious building fall, truth will stand.
Love,
Elder Dawson
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| Computer Place Selfie |
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| Stamp I bought to stamp the pamphlets we hand out |
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