Carter's Mission

  Heyo  How was everyone's week? Mine was pretty busy with some fun stories. But first, spiritual thought.  Spiritual thought:  Lately I've been thinking a lot about experiences. Mainly spiritual ones, but personal and fun ones are always good to have.  "In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost" -President Nelson What does constant influence mean? Does that mean that I only need to have one big spiritual party of my life and my testimony is set? Not at all. Like how president Nelson explains, our spiritual moments cannot get us through hard times. It is only with the Holy Ghost that can CONSISTENTLY guide us through our life.  However important spiritual experiences are, they spirit not be our fuel for more that a year. We must search diligently for opportunities to serve other people and to bring the spirit. Look at the example of Lamen and Lemuel who...

  Hey guys!! How was your week. Mine was just SUBLIME!!! We had a lot of great lessons and god really has prepared Ayamé since I've been here. My first Sunday here we had about 15 people. Now we're topping off at about 60! God's hand is in this village. We're hoping to become a ward eventually.  Spiritual thought: This one will just be short, really.  God loves you and personally knows you.  I invite you to understand what that means for you. What does a PERSONAL relationship look like? How can you make it feel more personal on your side?  You guys should study that in your next study.  Good loves you! Bike ride Same bike ride Walking back from church Chicken in the bus

Howdy y'all Don't know where the southern accent came from but today's a special.  Woooooh!! We got two spiritual thoughts cause why not? It's my email, but it's your choice if you read it.  Spiritual thought #1 comes from a fireside recording my comp has. Its titled wake up from your phone. I want to read to tout a small part of what I wrote in my journal "We all search for digital distractions. There's the story from the book "Percy Jackson" he shares and I love it. There's a bot and he needs to save the world in about a week. He and his 2 friends give themselves at a casino. There are floors and floors of games and distractions, which lead them to lose themselves. A couple of hours in this magical casino became 5 days. This can apply to our own technology habits. There is an infinite amount of distractions on our own personal 'magic casino'. An intended 10 minutes becomes hours wasted."  Isn't that interesting? I feel that ...

You're not going to beleive it. Here's the story. Me and my comp go out looking for a friend of ours. So we go contact a house to find her house (previous contacts were at the church) and we got a general location. So we found this these two dudes and we got talking. One was a pastor and the other was an evangelist. But they were listening. So we taught. Then a third guy shows. It was an apostle Whhaaattt!!!  Sorry it wasn't an apostle of our church, so its not any apostle we know. So we're not the only church with apostles I guess. Interesting things go on here. Spiritual thought: I was listening to a devotional give by President Nelson  Here's a nice quote I've heard from him "When the laws of God are obeyed, wanted blessings will always result, not just MAYBE or SOMETIMES. Divine law is dependable! Divine law is incontrovertible!" -President Nelson I have totally seen this a bit throughout my mission. It is the times that I am SURE with myself and g...