5/25/13 from Sis Rush

Here are your wonderful sons after a taco salad dinner at my non member friends home on Thursday. Fifth over is the future AP of the Irvine Mission, along with three of our wonderful Korean Elders.

From Elder Mitts:
Sister Rush is from another ward in the stake and she is awesome. That Picture with me holding the Koala is at her friend Kim's house, we had dinner at the Kim-zeum. Kim has so much kewl stuff, like an old piano that plays itself, and a secret passage into the attic. i got the Koala out of the crane game that she has in her kitchen, it only took me 4 tries! we all got to share our testimonies with her, since she is a non-member, and we left her with a book of mormon. we are hoping that something will come of that, but only time will tell.

Every week I will have what I aptly call the Weekly Update. i will try to keep it spiritual, but hey I am human and cant talk about the Gospel 24 hours a day, so forgive me. But...

Here's the Weekly Update!

This week has been fun. We got a car for a couple of weeks, then back to bike. Our investigators are progressing slowly, but there is steady forward motion. we are so excited to finish out Elder Lieberum's mission on a high note. We have a lot of camaraderie in the zone, all of the Elders are great! The spirit is so strong when we get together.

We are focusing this month on the Book of Mormon and studying it has brought back wonderful experiences in my past, when I have gained that testimony of the book and it divinity. There are so many reasons why i love having this book in my life, and there are so many times I can think of when it has truly made a difference for me. One such instance was when I was making the decision to come out here on the mission. I was so unsure, and there were a lot of things that were keeping me from coming to that decision. I was reading in the book of Alma one day about how Captain Moroni was preparing for war against the wicked Lamanites being led by Nephite dissentors, and it wasn't just the physical fortification that he put up that made the difference. he had to prepare them spiritually or he knew that they would lose. That is why I am out here, I am building Spirtual Forts, both for myself, and for the people out here in California. There are so many good people in the world, and all they need is the tools and materials to build there forts. the scriptures are the hammer and nails. prayer is the wood we use, and church attendance and participation in ordinances are the heaping of earth, and building of towers to oversee the land of our stewardship, so that no enemy may enter in and carry away anything or anyone in our city. these things are so important and crucial to our salvation and exaltation. there is so much happiness in these things that once we truly understand them, we will be like the people of Nephi who heard the words of King Benjamin, and will have No more desire to do evil, but to do good continually. I pray for this everyday, that we all may have this desire.

Stay Strong and Keep On,

Elder Mitts