Eternal Family ☺️

10/31/2022

Hey everyone!! You all are truly amazing and God is a God of Miracles. I don’t have much time but here is a miracle that has just happened and been a blessing to me to be a part of. Love you all but here is my miracle and testimony 

So about 3 months ago when I moved to this area, I was able to run into this family in a parking lot, we were able to start teaching them and helped this family start working towards Baptism, we were able to teach a couple of the lessons and they were coming to church, progressing well and then maybe after a month of us teaching them out of no where they told us that they were moving, that was very sad. But they wanted to know if there was a church close to them where they were moving to, so we got them the information for the church that would be next to where they were going to be living and it was this place called Little Neck. Little Neck was actually my first area when I started my mission and has been a closed area for a long time now.... that was a little sad because there was no missionaries that lived close to them who could truly help them. But this last transfer Little Neck opened back up and the family is being taught again, progressing well and their son was just baptized and the parents are getting ready to be baptized next. So my testimony is that I know that this is the work of the Lord and I know that there is a reason for areas to be closed or opened again and the missionaries to go places they need to be. I know that God watches over all of us and knows exactly who we are. He is here for us and will never leave us alone, our Father in Heaven truly loves all of us. I have seen that so much on my mission so many times! I know that Jesus Christ lives and I am grateful for this gospel. Love you all friends and family! 

#familyscanbetogetherforever

#loveyoukurtis&elizabeth 

#happywedding

Elder Laing

 

 

Tyson got permission to call on the day Kurtis and Elizabeth got married. We all hopped on and chatted for about a half hour while they told him about their special day.

Cereal 🥣

10/17/2022

Yo! What a beautiful time here in Long Island New York. Just enjoying it before it gets super cold once again. It's been raining a lot so the snow might happen soon... nothing super crazy has been happening lately, still just trying to help our friends work towards baptism which is always exciting! There are 2 miracles I would love to share with you all, the first one is like such a crazy miracle that I am super grateful for. So we were out contacting people and we ran into a member that was from out of town, here just for work. So we talked for just a short little bit and he gave us 40 dollars for my companion and I to have a nice meal that night!! That was absolutely so nice having him do that since like honestly we don't have the greatest meals. So we decided to either have a very good meal for one day or have good meals for a couple weeks, we decided on the couple weeks.... so we went and got cereal! This is the best cereal ever!!!!!!!

The second Miracle I want to share is with a friend we are teaching. So the story begins with us walking out of the church to start contacting people and then he was just in the church parking lot sitting in his parked car on his phone. We went up and starting talking and then we were able to have a good conversation that lead to us showing him the church building. We were able to show him and then he had time to talk still since he was on break from work so we sat down in the chapel and taught him the Restoration. That lesson was one of the most powerful, spiritual lesson I have ever had!!!! It was amazing, it almost brought me to tears when we had him close his eyes and picture Joseph Smith's experience in the garden of trees as we shared it with him. We all opened our eyes after we shared Joseph Smith's experience and we asked him how he felt and what he saw and pictured, he described it and it was super amazing what he described and saw. We showed him a picture of Joseph Smith in the Garden and he almost fell off his chair and maybe almost drop a bad word... hehe but he said "that is exactly what I saw" it was amazing the Spirit was so strong! He accepted a day to be baptized!!! New York is so blessed and we see Miracles everyday! Love you all have an amazing week! 

Elder Laing

 

 

Pictures for the week!

10/3/2022

 

Utah....

10/3/22

Hey everyone!!! So life is moving on and the weeks are going by fast. Another 6 months have gone by which means another special General Conference! It was absolutely fire, loved listening and feeling the Spirit very strong.

Okay guess what time it is.... miracle time! I feel like that's all I share but honestly they are amazing! So if anyone remembers the one homie I baptized his name was Mo Green! That was a long time ago when I was in Woodside Queens. Well this miracle is he got to go to GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!! Like my homie Mo Green went to Utah. I love being a missionary and seeing how much the gospel changes life, the gospel is so true! Make sure you keep doing the little things praying and reading. It will truly help strengthen your testimony! Love you all have a great week!

1 Nephi 16:29

29 And there was also written upon them a new writing, which was plain to be read, which did give us understanding concerning the ways of the Lord; and it was written and changed from time to time, according to the faith and diligence which we gave unto it. And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things.

Elder Laing