Dear Family,
What a crazy week we've had! Like I said in my letter home, we were volunteered to put together a funeral for a less active member of our ward who we have been visiting with. She was from Utah and wanted an Elder from Utah to speak at her funeral. Luckily for us, not so lucky or him, our district leader is from Utah! Poor guy had to speak for someone whom he had never met before. He however did an amazing job and the spirit was so strong! Her family (who are all non-members) came up to us afterwards and thanked him over and over again for the words he spoke and for his dedication to the Lord. I am so grateful that people are able to feel the spirit so strongly. How blessed are we for being able to have the restored gospel alive in our lives! We are working with a lot of people right now who are struggling to progress. Our mission president has said that if they are not progressing they don't understand something about the Gospel of Jesus Christ... How interesting it is to me that that is how we are in our gospel dedication. We don't understand something about the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and ETTE) and we stop progressing. We stay where we are because it is easy. Sister McKee gave the workshop in our District Meeting today and said that it is hard for us to commit to the gospel and the Lord because it means that we are continually changing and becoming someone better. It is hard to overcome staying in the same place, in our comfort zone, when staying oftentimes means FEELING safe... not necessarily BEING safe. Anyways, those are my thoughts today. I hope you all are having a wonderful day! I'm so sorry I didn't get to email yesterday. I hope ya'll aren't too mad :)
I love ya!
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