One week away from 30 weeks 
Haha my pictures have degraded to screenshots from Messenger, this week I'll be taking a lot more! This week was transfer week and it was nuts! This is my 4th transfer and my 4th area. So yeah... I'm transfered around a lot. I can either look at it that President doesn't trust me, he trusts me, or I need to learn a lot. And either way, I've learned so MUCH from each and every companion. Something I've learned is that we choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice. And it's a hard choice. It's so incrediblely hard. It's easier to feel sorry for yourself, to be sad, to sorrow. Here are some amazing scriptures talking about the same thing. 2 Nephi 4:17-30
17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me.
19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.
20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.
21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.
22 He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of them to quake before me.
23 Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me knowledge by visions in the night-time.
24 And by day have I waxed bold in mighty prayer before him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and ministered unto me.
25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.
26 O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?
27 And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh? Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am I angry because of mine enemy?
28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.
29 Do not anger again because of mine enemies. Do not slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.
30 Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say: O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Why should I sorrow? Christ has already won, He's already felt my pain, payed the debt, won the fight, felt the stripes. We've already been blessed so much with so many blessings. Hard things will always happen. Just because we're on the rock of our Redeemer doesn't excuse us from Satan's temptations or trials of this life.
Wasn't Christ's life full of temptation, trials, sadness, and death? So if we're trying to follow that example, those things will come. But because of what Christ has already done, we know that He can support us through any trial. That's why through Christ all things are possible, because He's felt every failure and setback. He never yeilded to temptation and was a prefectly loving and obedient Son, but he still felt all of it. Choose to be joyful. Choose to be happy!
So I can be sad about the transfer and that it's a slower area, or I can be happy and strive for the Lord's will and have faith that He'll bless us!
We did tons of service this past week! For other missions it might not be anything much, but for the Gilbert Mission, it's alot! We did service for a guy named Bella and he was super cool! He has a 1967ish VW Bug and a 1980s VW Rabbit, super cool! He feed us dinner afterwards and we were actually talking about Japan and how when they surrendered in WWII they actually gave up all their family samurai swords and they 100% gave up. And the Spirit basically prompted me to share about the story of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's and how they turned away from their wicked ways and turned to Christ. I shared it and he really liked it! It turned into a great conversation about how Christ is the only one that truly changes hearts. The world trys to fit you into a big machine, but Christ will change you! The world fits you into a box, a creed, a group, a classification. But to Christ and Heavenly Father, you're a literally spirit Child of God with infinite potential. Anyway, it was a great conversation and I'm glad I followed that prompting!
I'm also driving a Tundra :). It's pretty fun. We're the moving Elders, so we help out moving furniture from each mission house and reorganizing extra furniture! So it's been pretty fun. Elder Hafen, don't you have a Tacoma? I have the bigger boy :). Haha, I'm joking, I would love to drive a Tacoma. Anyway, love you guys! Have safe travels where ever you go and choose to be happy, even when you're in bad sitautions!
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Me with Elder Bodily
Elder Merrell and Me
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