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From April 20, 2015

This week in my studies I learned a lot. Every time I have been feeling the spirit and learning a ton. I am thankful for the opportunity to train because I get to study more. We have an investigator whose mom just died and she is doubting if God really exists. She quoted Matthew 7 that says "Ask and ye shall recieve, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." She asked that her mom would be healed but she wasn't. So I decided to study what are the conditions on that promise. I found that we will get what we ask for if we ask what the Spirit tells us to ask. If we ask for something that is against the will of God we will not recieve it. So sometimes we will get what we want when we pray with faith but if we never ask we will never recieve anything.

This week was a difficult week for us. We had so many appointments fall it was ridiculous. It was kind of discouraging and frustrating especially in contrast to how good of a week we had last week. I felt a little bit down. On Friday morning during my personal study I listened to a conference talk by President Monson that is called "Finding Joy in the Journey." In it he talks about how we need to find the joy in the journey today. We can't be waiting for something to happen for it to make us happy. in it he quotes the musical "The Music Man." It goes like this “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.” It reminded me of when Hermana Spjut talked about choosing to be happy. I chose at that moment to be grateful and be happy, always looking at the positive side of things. Then things started going better for us. 

So here is the council for this week folks. Choose to be happy. Remember "Adam fell that men might be and men are that they might have joy." (2 Nephi 2:25) I'm surprised that I still can remember that in English. We will have joy if we keep the commandments and we choose to be happy always.

I really love the climate where I'm at. We are literally up in the clouds. I'm am walking through the street and clouds pass by right in front of my face. Sometimes I feel like I am in Pandora from Avatar. It's awesome.

Thanks for everything

Have a great week.

Also a special shout out for Spencer Rowberry for getting his call to Florida! Also special shout out to Jaden Cutler for getting his call also to Florida.

Thanks for everything.

-Elder Rowberry