Happy Fathers Day

Dear Fam, I must start this letter by wishing all the men in this family a happy fathers day, most or all to our Dad! Dad, thank your for your example and everything you do I feel so blessed to have you as my father. I'm glad to hear all the great news from back home and I was especially excited to see the pictures of the new house! This week we are hoping for two baptisms, Pascal and Patience. Pascal is in her twenties, she was a referral from a member. Teaching her was difficult because she learns very slowly, but she is excited and ready to be baptized. Patience like Pascal was a member referral, she is also in her twenties, I am very excited for Saturday. This week we had our last interviews with him...it was tough. He told our zone how much he loved us and said that if he qualifies for the celestial kingdom he will first look for his wife, then his kids, and then us.(This is the part where I lost it haha) The focus of his talk was on magnifying our calling and making sure we are doing everything we need to all the time... including the small things. This is something I have been thinking a lot about and because I have been focusing on them as well I believe its why I have been the happiest over the past two weeks. I have thought a lot about diligence(serving with all your heart, might, mind, and Strength.) Then our offering to the Lord is complete as President Smith taught. I have learned one simple truth that "life by the yard is hard but life by the inch is a sinch." Things were pretty hard before this transfer, I was always focused on things I lacked and felt over whelmed and was not patient enough with myself... I wish I would had changed that attitude earlier but then I read a scripture in D&C 127:4 and have to tried to "redouble my efforts" and have been more diligent in the small things and patient as it says to do. Now the weeks are passing like days and the transfers like weeks. These are lessons I wish I could have learned from day one, its some thing I have heard countless times before but the thing I love about the gospel is its not enough to read or to hear but the real lessons come when we apply them in our lives, that what the gospel is all about and I am grateful I can help people change their lives by applying the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Expect more great letters and more great stories! I encourage all of us to Redouble our efforts and look for anything our lives that is slowing us down from achieving our full potential. (3 Ne 27:27)

Love, Elder Andrew K. L.