12/12/2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
🏝Best Island🏝
12/12/22
Yo! Hope everyone is doing well. So CRAZY Christmas is like 2 weeks away, nothing better then Christmas time. Especially being able to testify about Jesus Christ during the Christmas season! I Truly love Jesus Christ and being a missionary!!
So the update from this last week, it is freezing
season. Super cold and been rainy lots this week! Our friend Jerome is
an absolute legend!! He got baptized and it took 7 missionaries to help
him. It was such a fun time helping him come closer to our Heavenly
Father and honestly as missionaries coming closer to our Heavenly Father
together as we all pitched in to help him. To keep this long story
short of why there was 7 missionaries that helped him was because one
set of missionaries was able to find him and start teaching him only to
find out that he did not live in their area. Which was then passed to my
companion and I, we were able to prepare him and keep helping him get
ready for baptism and then found out that he lived one street out of our
area... so then it was passed again to other missionaries. We all just
know that Jerome has lots of friends now :)
My
time has come to an end here in Long Island. Long Island is so blessed
and has changed me forever. I have had so many opportunities to grow,
learn and I will be forever grateful for my time here. There will be so
many Miracles that I will never forget. But I am now headed to a new
place, it's not even in New York.... I am going to Bridgeport
Connecticut! So this will be a new experience for sure. One day I will
return back to the city! But I am sure excited to be apart of the Lord's
work in Connecticut. Miss you and love you all!
Elder Laing
Monday, December 5, 2022
Joy
12/5/2022
Wazzup?!
How
is everyone? It has been a little while since I sent an email. Truly
the mission has and will keep changing me forever! Writing these emails
are so hard because I can't describe how much I love my mission and how
much Joy I am actually feeling being in the service of our Heavenly
Father and in the service of others!
Been
focusing lots on diligence and desire recently and have grown a lot
from really focusing on that. Lots of Miracles have been happening in
NYC here is a scripture that explains it. "If ye have faith as a grain
of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder
place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
Truly have seen lots of that recently, lots of mountains have been moved
in my life and in the life's of the friends we are teaching. We were
struggling with getting people to church and now we are getting families
and lots of our good friends coming and progressing. It's amazing!
Truly the impossible can become possible with God's help! Super excited
to be teaching this family. Feel Truly blessed!
Super grateful for everyone and the holiday season! Love you all have a great week!
Elder Laing
