This week was long. We had meetings all this week so not much got done. We had Zone Meeting on Wednesday and then on Friday I had a District Leader training meeting. So Elder Fonseca and I headed to Birmingham to the Mission Home. All of the District Leaders from the whole mission were in attendance at the Mission Home for special training. We talked lots about the noble and great ones. It was pretty good for me to hear. I had been doubting why I was called to be a District Leader. The Mission President, President Rasmussen, said that we are all called at this time to do something that needs to be done. We have the ability to reach an Elder/Sister in the way he or she needs. It was pretty cool to hear that and made me realize that I should not doubt what I have been called to do.
Saturday was a fun day though. We had three service projects. We started at 10 in morning and finished at about 7 that night with all of them. It was a long day and I will tell you about it in story form.
I would like to tell you the story of Elder Nielsen Vs. the stinging nettle. There is a man we have been doing service for this past week. His garden is very overgrown. With brambles and stinging nettle. We had cleared a good chunk of it but when we got close to the back we stopped. We stopped because we had a wall of stinging nettle that was taller than I am. The wall of stinging nettle was even taller than Elder Fonseca who is six foot two. We put off clearing it away in hopes that the stinging nettle would just go away. But on Saturday we decided it was time and the plant needed to go. I have now learned from first hand experience that stinging nettle really hurts when it gets you. When we got home we both had to wash our arms to get the stingers out of them. But even after careful washing, we are still feeling the effects two days later. But it was a good lesson. It was fun providing service until we got to the nettles. Sin can be fun at the start as well, but the further we get into the sin and the more we sin sooner or later this sin will get you back. We had fun doing the first two thirds of the garden. The last third was Hell. We learn in the Book of Mormon that wickedness never is and never will be happiness. Just because it is fun now it will not be fun later. Stinging nettle takes about four minutes before it starts to hurt. Those four minutes are fun but then for the next three days you are hating life. We had some cream though to put on our arms which took the pain away. The cream is like the Atonement. The Atonement is there for us we just need to know how to use it and be willing to act. It was a good lesson to learn this week. It also was a painful one though. But the most painful lessons we learn the most from.
I had a question asked this week. "What are Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ doing at this very moment?" Here are my thoughts. I honestly think that Christ is preparing for the second coming. He doesn't know when but in the Doctrine and Covenants it talks about how he will come tomorrow. So that is what I think He is doing. Heavenly Father I think is probably doing the same thing, but I also think that He is weeping too. Just like he did when He talked to Enoch. Weeping because of the wickedness and hardness of the hearts of the Children of men. With Christ preparing He is doing lots. Separating the wheat from the tares and bringing people who where promised to be put in a favorable position to hear the Gospel before it's to late. Leave me your comments on what you think Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are doing.
It is my hope that we will all help those that have been promised and that have the desire to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love this Gospel, the people of England and all of you that support me in this effort.
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