0ee3ebde-cdc9-4b96-b8c8-81348f7cd1b3 Elder Kurt Felix Back to Missionary Letters Be Where Your Feet Are. Hello everyone!! I hope everyone has some sweet goals to work for and achive this year. For me as I reflected on this last year I looked back and the biggest thing that I have learned and am continuing to learn is how to find joy in every situation. There is a phrase I love "Be where your feet are" when we do this we live each day in the present not thinking on the future to the point of anxiety, as well as not thinking on the past to the point of regret. This week I listened to a talk by Jeffrey R Holland and as he bore his testimony on the savior I was really touched by it. This made me think of the question "What gives his testimony so much power" so a little question to think about is "What gives your testimony Power?" Love you all, Hasta Ver. -Élder Félix Previous Letter Next Letter

5826ada5-ac50-4bb6-ba4c-e4f5a8b3d2d6 Elder Jacob Nelson Back to Missionary Letters Season 2, Episode 19, (5 comps, 5 months, 2 apartments, 1 area👍) Hello everyone!! Yes I know last email i said I would do better about sending emails and then I ghosted you for 2 weeks😬. These weeks were pretty awesome and crazy. Sorry for ghosting you all but lets get into it. 🏠:So we moved apartments to a bigger apartment which is soooo much better especially cause there are 3 of us. We are also living with another set of Elders so thats fun!! Sad that sister Zinie isn't our neighbor anymore but its ok we will still visit. 🌊: This last weekend we had the opportunity to have 3 baptisms which was pretty awesom!! Kash and his sister Wylee got baptized on Saturday! It was the most people I have ever seen at a baptism. Half of the gym was full of people it was crazy!! It was so awesome to see how much support they had!!! Caleb was baptized the next day on Sunday. He has been awesome to teach. He is so exited to learn and grow and most importantly he is so exited to get sealed as a family!! The spirit was so strong at both of the baptisms!!! Highlights🌟: - New Apartment!!! - Had a nerf battle🔫 - Ate a whole lemon🍋🤨 - Gave a talk🎤 Word on the street🛣: __________________________ Harmony: She is still working towards receiving a date but she is always so exited to learn and wakes up early to make sure shes ready for church!!! Family of 7(25th): They are pretty awesome!! They all want to be baptized and are exited to learn. Their parents are hard to catch but they are also willing to learn!! Isaac: He is an OAY and he is hilarious!! He loves to play roblox and him and his dad are so funny when they talk to each other🤣. He wants to be baptized and loves learning. He just gets distracted easily lol. ____________________________ Spiritual thought🌌: Alma 33:20-23 "20 But few understood the meaning of those things, and this because of the hardness of their hearts. But there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished. Now the reason they would not look is because they did not believe that it would heal them. 21 O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish? 22 If so, wo shall come upon you; but if not so, then cast about your eyes and begin to believe in the Son of God, that he will come to redeem his people, and that he shall suffer and die to atone for their sins; and that he shall rise again from the dead, which shall bring to pass the resurrection, that all men shall stand before him, to be judged at the last and judgment day, according to their works." Sorry thats a lot of verses but I read them this week and they really stuck with me throughout the week. If we continue to cast our eyes towards Jesus and really see him and follow him he can heal us!! Thanks for reading!! Love you all!! Have a great week!! Previous Letter Next Letter

5cf8b73e-5f04-4cb2-bea4-8f6c42a8780c Sister Emily Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Hello everyone! We had a crazy couple of weeks here in Saline. Friday we got a call from our president that they were moving one of my companions to Troy because of a big complicated situation I wont explain. She just unpacked from a crazy transfer white washing and now she has to leave. We were all pretty sad about it. So we drove up on Saturday to drop her off and it turns out we got a companion coming to us..president didnt tell us about😅 Sister Griffin is our new companion and she is flying out to England in a few weeks so we are going to be in quarantine just to make sure she doesnt take covid with her. Also on friday, we got news that one of our friends that we were teaching passed away. It was a big shock to us. We knew he was in the hospital and we had prayed with him over the phone a few days before but he had texted us less than 24 hours of him passing away. If you could keep Bonnie and her family in your prayers I would really appreciate it. We had some pretty big lows this week but we also saw some miracles. We put up flyers offering prayers or uplifting messages and we got a call from one of them! Her name is Lisa and she is so sweet. She is going through a hard time losing a friend so we have been praying with her over the phone and we started teaching her! We also got in contact with a guy names Patrick and had a lesson with him yesterday and the spirit was so strong! He already really connects with The Book if Mormon and is excited to learn about it! We are having another lesson tonight! Also, a member in our ward heard we were in quarantine so she sent out an email so many members have reached out offering to feed us! This ward is so kind! Members underestimate how much meals and just letting us call them really mean to us Missionaries! They discourage us going to the store in quarantine so it will help so much. As hard as it is to adjust to all the changes, to stay inside, to lose friends we love or to see them struggle, it is worth it. The overwhelming feeling of love and peace that comes after feeling the spirit in a lesson and seeing people change and accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the happiest I have ever been. I hope you are all getting excited for General Conference! It's the perfect opportunity to invite friends to come and see! I love you all and hope you have a great week! Love Sister Leavitt Previous Letter Next Letter

fe3c1d5f-abab-4ae9-baad-a8b46bf4ad68 Sister Savannah Pric Back to Missionary Letters We watched the entirety of the chosen this week lol Hola todos! This week as I've been preparing myself for conference and the words of the prophets, I've learned a lot about myself. I've learned that I'm not as bad off as I think I am, that I've actually improved a lot, and that yes, despite who I used to be, I am still worthy of change and growth. I've been listening a lot to different things, trying to bring the spirit into my life more abundantly. I actually have an experience I want to share about that. One day, I received a text from one of the ladies I'm teaching singing lessons to and she wanted to have another lesson! She told me that she had been reading the Book of Mormon and loved what was in it, and that she had some questions and wanted to talk. I was ecstatic! So we scheduled a lesson and planned what we were gonna teach her. That day I decided to read some conference talks that President Jackman had recommended for us about Easter, and I felt like I'd oblige him. I was listening to "Where justice, love, and mercy meet," by Jeffery R. Holland, and I was filled with the spirit, as you do 😂 I listened to a few more talks by him, and I felt really spiritually uplifted and inspired, better than I've felt in my life. (I also just wanted to add that, looking back, this day helped me to see how spiritually deficit I had become and that bringing the spirit back had helped me to feel better, and I've felt better since then). So then we had this lesson with Janet, and it was so spiritual. We talked a lot about her questions from the Book of Mormon, and then after she asked us how she can have the Holy Ghost more in her life, and we were able to tell her about baptism and how the Gift of the Holy Ghost can be with us always. At first I think she took that harshly, because she told us that what we were saying is that if our church is true as we claimed it is, then all the other churches are false. It took us a moment, but I think that moment was filled with the spirit, and we told her that it was true. She didn't back away either like I thought she might. She actually responded quite well, saying that she needed to read more before she came to any conclusions. She is the kind of person who told us all those weeks ago that she wasn't looking for my truth or my companion's truth, but God's truth. And I think things are going well, at least I hope so. We haven't had a visit since then, but we did invite her to watch General Conference this weekend, and she seemed chipper as ever! We are confident that the Lord is working on her every day! This week we also had a chance to receive the first round of the covid vaccine! I'm grateful for the technology we've been given that has given us a vaccine in just a year! I know that this is going to benefit missionaries so much because of how often we are out and about with people, and after we are fully vaccinated we'll be safe from quarantine even if we get exposed! I'm grateful for all that we've been able to do recently, but I'm grateful that we now have more opportunities to create safe environments for everyone we teach! Thank you for all your prayers and everything you've done for me! I love all of you! -Hermana Price Previous Letter Next Letter

cb6883d1-6096-4c10-bef2-2ca67feb645a Elder Logan Felix Back to Missionary Letters This week was good. It was a little bit slow because we have been locked down all week. We had a lot of time just to study and read and clean and yeah that pretty much sums up my week haha. I have been studying restoration and there are a lot of things I´ve learned just when I think I've studied enough of the restoration I find another part of it I can study. I have also been reading the Teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith and there are so many things I learned about the priesthood and temple blessing. It has helped me strengthen my testimony even more about Joseph Smith, I know he was called of God and Restored the true Church of Jesus Christ. I am super excited for the General Conference. It is going to be great. Even though it will only be in a small room. I was thinking about it and on April 6, 1830, there was a meeting with a few people in a small room, but it was the start of the greatest thing on the earth. “Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing , for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great.” D&C 64:33 I hope you are all doing great and getting ready for the General Conference, if you do so you will be blessed. Elder Felix Previous Letter Next Letter

9069951d-d936-4183-b566-cdbb357a7fb1 Sister Laren Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Welcome August, Oh my goodness time is going by so quickly! Maryland is awesome! I didn't send out a group email last week sorry, was crazy busy. So a little bit of last week story. Had a long day waiting at the airport, arrived to DC at 2 in the morning, met my mission President and his family, got my trainer (who is seriously the BEST), met the YSA!! Seriously so much has happened. I LOVE THE WORK!!!! So to start off with a funny story.... so being a new missionary and all I thought I would be helpful and clean and do the dishes. Lol my comp. said that for the dish washer we dont use dishwasher soap (because we are cheap) we just use the regular dish soap. Ahh so I start it.... and maybe put a little to much in. A mess everywhere. Water and soap all over the floor! Oh it was so funny! I hope you can see the video! (Kinda dumb, but missionary humor is real) So yesterday was fast Sunday and holy cow FASTING WORKS!! The coolest miracle happened. My companion, Sister Harris, and I started our fast Saturday afternoon right after lunch (so about 2). we were in the car and began our companion fast, fasting that we may find a new friend to teach. NOT THREE MINUTES LATER, we get out of the car, walk across the street and run into this awesome guy. His name is Giles and he is 6'7, playing college basketball. We get talking to him and he so goofy and nice AND totally interested in the message we share. We invited him to church and he accepted!! He comes to church and we give him a heads up of what is going to happen today, he is taking everything in like a champ. We introduce him to a few of the members and just clicks with everyone. He kept saying 'this feels like home', he even got up in sacrament meeting and bore his testimony saying that he know meeting Sister Harris and I will change his life for the better! Seriously GOD IS REAL and THIS IS THE TRUE CHURCH!! So pumped to teach him and show him that this message will change his life forever! Also this week, I began to reread the Book of Mormon and was in 1 Nephi chapter 3. (For those who don't know)This is when Nephi and his brothers go back to Jerusalem to get the plates or family genealogy, from Laban... anyway I thought of how Nephi made God his partner and put his trust in Him. That if Nephi had failed to get the plates, it meant God had failed. And because God does not fail, Nephi didn't. I know if we have Him as our partner than we will never fail! Trust in him, he knows our plan and he knows what will be best for us!! I love you all! Hope you have a great week! Love Sister Leavitt Update on the Temple: got word that the re-dedication is back on schedule and Salt Lake will be releasing a date soon!!! Previous Letter Next Letter

33ba38a9-3061-407b-8b45-66171eff8ded Elder Ethan Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Buenas 🙌 welp here I am. Sending another email after like 6 months lol. I made it to Argentina great. I had 3 flights. I left Portland at 1 made it to to Atlanta in 4 Hours and then ran to the next gate because I was going to miss my flight. Was on the Plane for more than 10 hours, hardly slept lol made it to Buenos Aires fine, had a native who work for the church help us buy tickets and check our bags and so and so. My next flight for Buenos Aires to Córdoba was like 1:30 minutes. But made it here just fine haha can't believe I'm here. Definitely feel like I'm still in the US but no one speaks English and idk just weird. But yeah met my comp he's a Native Argentino. Doesn't speak English, has a thick accent and talks really fast lol. But I understand almost every thing he says so thanks to the Gift Of Tounges! Right now we cover 2 areas LAS FLORES Y HOGAR 3 it's pretty safe over here. The President suggests not taking your phone and any belongings with you when working because you will be robbed. My comp was robbed 2 weeks ago.... lol but that's because the thief saw he had a phone. So yea. The Peso to American dollar is like 100 or something but if you brought cash you can change it with these dudes standing outside the bank for over double the price! So I'm loaded now lol. But all is good 👍sad to leave my friends in the states and I hope they know I love them ! ❤ I hit a year in the mission in 10 days so that's exciting! Love yall 💓 lowkey prolly will forget to send a northern email for a while...... Previous Letter Next Letter

790fb58c-36ab-4954-a97c-d7567d814e3a Sister Dantzel Price Back to Missionary Letters I send the "bubbles" when I feel awkward What a week! I hope that everyone is doing well and has found something positive in this week. This week has been just like every other week here at the MTC... In case some of you don't know the schedule, we started HSI which stands for hablo su idioma (speak your language). This means that we are only allowed to speak Spanish no English... our days start with a 3 hour class in full immersion spanish. Then we eat lunch, then have an hour tutoring session. We do our personal study, companion study and language study before dinner which takes around two and a half hours. Then we go to another 3 hour class in full immersion spanish. And we are speaking spanish constantly and yes I have a constant headache learning new words and interpreting hand motions from others. But, it is so fun to see myself progress in the language! I am starting to understand and pick up on regular phrases that people use a lot. I know how to get my idea across as long as people are paying attention. I also love talking with my hands and I look like a bird trying to fly when I am speaking in Spanish. I can confidently pray, testify, and ask to use the bathroom! All big improvements!! I sang in choir again this week for the general authority! We sang I will walk with Jesus which is one of my favorite songs. It is one of the new hymns that came out last week and singing it with so many young Elders and Sisters who chose to walk with Jesus was so powerful. If you have not heard the song before I totally recommend it because it is so comforting to know that if you choose to walk with Jesus He WILL walk with you. Not only will He walk with you but He will carry you through the hardest things you are going through or will go through. I am so grateful to be a missionary for La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias! Yo testifico que Dios es nuestro amoroso Padre Celestial. Yo se que con Dios ayudar en nuestas vidas nosotros crecemos a ser llegar como Cristo. Yo se que con fe en Jesucristo nosotoros puedemos hablar con Dios en un oracion. digo esas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo amen. Previous Letter Next Letter

da11ec98-2b52-4719-9057-bdecbf8a232f Elder McClain Easton Back to Missionary Letters This isn't the Reservation!?! Hey Fam, This week has been pretty good. I miss my reservation family, but Minot is cool. There's a lot of awesome members here. I am also excited to teach lessons to and provide service for. The people here are super nice. We get fed meals! There is an Airforce base in Minot. I am excited to learn more about it. Being a Zone Leader is pretty amazing There are some awesome missionaries in my zone. I can't wait to get to know them better! This week I was able to use my Melchizedek Priesthood authority 3 times, which was awesome. If you have the Melchizedek Priesthood, I invite you all to use it because it's a rare gift that not a lot of people have. If you are going through some trials or need some comfort, I invite you to ask for a blessing! The Melchizedek Priesthood is the power to act in God's name. I bare testimony that a Priesthood blessing comes from God. I know that it can heal the sick and help anyone! If you want to know more about the Priesthood please ask. Love, Elder Easton Pic Another Cool companion Elder Fawley Previous Letter Next Letter

59afcde3-952d-41a5-858f-7143a619d4b6 Elder Braden Harris Back to Missionary Letters Whats up My mom's making me send out an email this week so here's a quick update lol. Transfers happened and I got moved all the way down to the middle of nowhere in a town called Alamosa. I've been trying so hard to keep things moving but holy cow it's been tough. Reading through D&C with come follow me this year has been keeping me sane so that's cool. Hope your all having a good week. Oh yeah my birthday is coming up so if someone wants to send me some candy that would be tight lol. Love yall, sorry for a lame email. It's just been tough haha. Hit me back! Lmk what you've been up to https://photos.app.goo.gl/aN5bokFkpGHwXD3LA Previous Letter Next Letter

f0e89a04-4500-4f2b-ab37-6ea8b9d4b87b Sister Malia McOmie Back to Missionary Letters WELP... IM BACK QUE PASO AMIGOS?! I debated on writing an email this week... but i wanted to hop on this before all the other talk did cause yk lol <3 #ALLNIGHTER Tuesday at 11pm me and Hermana Longhurst went to the hospital, it was a literal fever dream. We were there until 4pm on Wednesday. staying in the ER all night long is no joke, it was like a simulation or something. We are HIGHKEY paying the price still to this day for that all nighter, missionary work is exhausting as it is haha. The hospital didnt find much, and I wasnt getting much better. SLC, the mission president & doctors decided it was best if I came home and got it all figured out. ET ET ET Emergency transfers aren't fun... my poor mission president had 2 of us... FROM ONTARIO leave today. This whole week is just a blur... I got told yesterday I was coming home, packed up last night and left today, it's been crazy. Im so sad I didnt get to say goodbye to like anyone. But don't worry yall! It is just a TEMPORARY return home, and I plan to get back as soon as I can! #cantgetridofmethateasy READ THIS X100 the last week was DEFINETLY a rollercoaster of emotions. & I definitely said "if only I could BEGIN to see God's plan" about a million times. I think sometimes there are things in life that make it HARD to be submissive and willing to follow God's plan. Things we don't want, things we don't get, things we miss out on, things that suck, things we never expected, A MILLION THINGS. But I was reading in Ether and found this gem of a story. Yall know the brother of Jared, the boats, the rocks that God lit with his hand... thats where we are at in the scriptures. Well this is after they had gotten the cool rock lights, made the boat and now they are on the way to their promised land. Ether 6:5 "And it came to pass that the Lord God caused that there should be a furious wind blow upon the face of the waters, towards the promised land ; and thus they were tossed upon the waves of the sea before the wind." HOLD UP, HOLD UP, reread that... I love love love the wording on this. It is SO applicable to trials that just happen, sometimes for no rhyme or reason . God could have just let the boat move slowly and calmly. But no, He CAUSED the winds to blow (aka our hard times) the next few verses explain how terrible of a storm it was. But, I love that He did it to move them TOWARDS the promised land. There is always a reason for the things that happen. Sometimes we might know that, sometimes we might forget it, or we might not even realize it at all!!! I know that sometimes life will toss ya around. But I also know that God is in control of everything . God is loving, He is the author of everything, and I KNOW He wants what's best for everyONE. Personally, I dont understand right now why I had to come all the way home when i like just got started. There could be a million reasons why. But I do know that this storm will pass and will lead me to my promised land, even if I don't know exactly what that looks like. God has a plan for you, even if it doesn't match your plan! Keep sailing cause it'll end for your benefit eventually. Trust in God and His eternal perspective & who knows I might see yall soon :P MUCHA AMOR -Hermana McOmie Previous Letter Next Letter

6549bc79-50c9-4d9b-9461-618dfc485fb3 Elder Brogan Bingham Back to Missionary Letters So this week was a super eventful week as you can tell by my title. I have returned to Catanduanes Island if you remember the last time I was here I was in the farthest area out in the jungle. SO what happened is my companion went home early so he could enroll in a school which left President Abraham with the decision of what was going to happen to me. So this week we also had Zone Conference and we found out new plans for the mission but we still had no idea what was going to happen to me. After zone conference, I found out that President was going to Catanduanes for another zone con and I still had no idea what was going to happen to me. Then what happened is I woke up the next morning and got a call from the assistants that I needed to pack my bags because I was traveling with them to Catanduanes. In the car with President Abraham, I found out that I would be a Zone Leader out here on the island which was super surprising. He told me that he woke up in the middle of the night and received the revelation that I need to go to Catanduanes with them and be a Zone Leader. So here I am on Gilligans Island just me and my companion and 16 other missionaries. Pretty exciting but I gotta go and I will send pictures because I have a lot. Love you all and have a good week . Previous Letter Next Letter