This is the Lord's work

Hello dear friends and family, 

I am so grateful to be a missionary! I love my life and my Savior. I'm learning so much and am so grateful for the chance I have to constantly change as a person and help others to come unto Christ. I know that this work is His. He directs it. 

One little miracle! I message-contacted someone on Facebook (who turned out to be a member), and it wound up being the exact moment that she needed help. She was very happy about the prospect of an uplifting spiritual message from the missionaries in her hard time. I asked her what was making things so hard, and it turned out (on top of a lot of other things), her son was about to fail math! So, that turned into an on-the-spot tutoring session. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and He will use our unique gifts and talents to do so, even when it's something like enjoying math.

Another pair of miracles. This isn't all new, but I haven't put it in my weekly. Turns out when I got transferred here, my comp had just barely gotten symptomatic with covid. Then within the next week and a half, the other two elders we live with got sick. I had gotten the first vaccine just three days before transfers. We looked into it, and it turns out that the antibodies often take only a couple days to develop! (those with medical knowledge correct me if further explanation is needed). I never got sick even a little bit, even though I spent most of three weeks with three contagious, symptomatic, sick elders, a miracle we put down to my having gotten vaccinated just in time. Then, we had an answer to prayer with them approving my waiver to get the second dose a few days early so as to be able to get it and recover before leaving the country! Prayers are answered and we're being looked out for. 

Next week I'll be writing from Peru! This week's going to be a little crazy what with transit, prep, and accommodations, but it'll be okay. This last week was a little crazy with quarantine, but that's okay too. I'm learning more and more every day how to be a better missionary and give more to the Lord.

Thanks for your thoughts, emails, and prayers! Sorry I haven't gotten to answering all of them. 

Happy, grateful, lucky and blessed, 

Elder Child