Hey there family,
Its been a good week We had zone conference. We got to basically go around and visit all these different church historical sites and our mission President talked about the history behind each place.
Here are some picture's of Benbo's Pond where Wilford woodruf baptized a butt load of people and by butt load i mean like two entire villages ! haha its was crazy to be there because its basically in the middle of no where and to think that he taught hundreds of people there is crazy! Because there probably aren't even a hundred people within 20 miles haha!
Also there is pictures of me on top of British camp which is basically a giant hill that they call "mountains" but it is a really sweet view cause you can see the whole area that Wilford woodruff and Brigham Young Preached the gospel in. It is also the place where Wilford woodruff and Brigham Young held a big conference and where they made some big decisions about the work in the area. Most of the Early church (and by most i mean probably over 80% or more) came from this area! The Welsh were most of the church!
There are also some pictures of Cardiff the capitol of wales! Where we sometimes spend P-days.
We have seen a couple miracles this week but i only have time to tell you about one. So one evening me and Elder Grappi are leaving the flat after Eating some dinner. and we had mad some plans to go stop by and see certain people , it sufficeth me to say that we had already made specific plans for what we needed to do for the evening. However Once we got on out bikes and were getting ready to head out Elder Grappi says i think we need to go see mark. Mark just happens to live up a massive hill in completely the opposite direction we were heading and we had already a scheduled appointment with him the following day so i saw no reason why we needed to go see mark and either did Elder Grappi. BY Mark is an investigator who we met last week who was in prison and now wears a bracelet around his ankle that keeps track of wear he is at and makes sure that he returns back to his home by 8 o clock at night. So Elder Grappi felt like we needed to go by so we did!. When we got there haha the front door was Boarded up so no one could get in or out haha and the whole place was trashed! I'll admit mark is kind of a dodgy character and he also lives in a dodgy place haha but when your a missionary you think your invincible to all danger. So what do mean and Elder grappi do when we see a boarded up front door? what any missionary does when he sees a door, he knocks it. We didn't bike up that flippin hill not to even knock the door. Believe it or not but mark was home and he let us in through the back! TO cut a long story short he explains to us that the front door is boarded up because he is getting kicked out and he has to leave the property by the end of the night. also that if he doesn't find some where to live then they are going to throw him back into prison. He then tells us he plans on "pinching" aka stealing" a caravan tonight so that he can live in it so that he wont go back to prison. To be honest his whole story didn't make a whole lot of sense to me but his point was that if he doesn't have somewhere to live he is going back to prison for 4 years, so he plans on stealing to avoid going to prison hahaha Ya i know that makes no sense but this was his thinking process. But he had been praying to ask god to help him haha so god sent us.
Elder Grappi and I took this opportunity to read a few scriptures with him to explain to him that obedience = blessings and that if he trust God he will be OK. Then we promised him if he chooses not to steal that caravan and instead to keep praying he will be OK. He said he would think about it. The next day we got a text from him saying " you guys were right! everything worked out!" he was allowed to live in his place for another 3 weeks!.
I know that God answered that mans prayer and that God will answer prayers through other people. NO one can doubt that that was just a coincidence. Mark prayed for help god sent us to give him the guidance he needed. When Mark had the guidance he neeeded then he had to make a choice to act and to believe and put his trust in God. He chose to follow god he saw the blessing and now his faith will grow but it wouldnt of grown if he didnt put his trust in God!
Jesus Christ says " will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you? If ye will come unto me ye shall ha eternal life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I recieve; and blessed are those who come unto me."
all have the opprtunity! The choice is your 2 nephi 2:27
love Elder
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