Mesquite Nevada Stakes
Elder Connor Zarate
Top three things from this week were one lesson with David and his house number two exchanges with Celtic Johnson and Elder Kohls birthday.
The lesson of David was super cool he is another kid our age and we got to sit and teach him about the restoration in his own home it was really amazing we don't teach very many lessons to people in person anymore it is much easier to teach Over video call. Most of them are like that but it really is amazing be able to sit with them face to face and to feel the spirit with them as you testify these truths.
Elder Johnson is an amazing missionary. we both had to visa wait and ended up both being in the Richmond Virginia mission and then came here. He got here a couple months before I did and when I came he was my first companion in Ireland. He's an amazing example of Faith and charity. He always makes you feel like your the most important one in the room and he is hilarious. We had such a great time and I learned lots.
It was Elder Kohls birthday and he said "don't give me Cake. Give me Steak" ... so I did. I cooked up some ribeye stakes for his birthday dinner. Later at English class several of our students got together and suprised him with a big cake and nice chocolates.
Our other friend Yaro, who we have been teaching for a long time now, went to spain for the last 2 weeks with his family. And he came back this Thursday and when he came back he also brought back some Spanish treats and pins for us. He also gave us an entire Birthday cake and sodas. He is so fun and is one of my best friends I have made on my mission. He is so grate.
My spiritual thought for this week starts in the spring of 1820 in the state of New York. When a boy enters a grove of trees and begins to pray. When he recounts the following exercise he said “I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. … When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!” in the sequence of events that followd this physical experience Joseph was called as a prophet. And this miracle is the star to the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ in these last days. As I have had the opportunity to teach people about the church and quoted these same words the sprit has repeatedly testified so strongly to me of what happened that day in New York. I'm so grateful for the knowledge that I have and for everything that it implies. I know these things are true. And I invite everyone to study "the first vision" this week and come to understand what it means for you.
PS. sorry I have basically stopped taking pictures they know I need to get back on it and I had a problem with my storage space and so a lot of pictures from my Google photos have been pulled off but here are some of them anyways