Taking Flight in Everett: More Guns and the War Chapters

Family and Friends!!

Hey everyone!! Another week once again has come and gone! It was quite an exciting one here in Washington.

Highlights!!

- On Thursday we had 7 lessons!! It was awesome to have a super busy day and to be able to just teach pretty much all day. I was super dead by the end though so I slept like a rock! (Which, for those of you who know me that's actually not anything new...haha!)

- Story Time: One of our members, Mike, had us come over to share a message with a guy that we actually taught for a little bit but has been going through some rough stuff. At first, Mike asked us if we would be able to help clean guns and we told him no! So he said that they would start cleaning their guns after we shared a message. Well, we were a little late getting there and apparently they were too excited so they just started cleaning these really old guns that had been in storage for 50 years. So, we got there and Mike just told us to come around to the back and there they all were cleaning guns. They started talking all about where they came from and all the history behind them. While they were talking I was thinking of how this could tie back to the gospel and then BOOM it came to me! We had been reading about all the wars in the Book of Mormon and how the people were preparing and things so we shared some scriptures about that and it was pretty awesome!

- We got to teach Sunday School on Sunday and it was super awesome!!

🥤Spiritual Juices🥤

So this week, as you know, I read a lot in the war chapters of the Book of Mormon. Before my mission I feel like I have always read these and thought "Wow these are some pretty neat stories!" and I never really thought I could get a lot out of them. But boy was I wrong!!! Every single day we are fighting a battle. Each and everyone of us are trying to fight for our souls every single day of our mortal existence. It's a hard battle to fight! But here's the thing, we have been given things to be able to prepare us and arm us for these battles we face. Some of these things consist of prayer, the Book of Mormon, the Bible, our families, prophets, apostles, and so much more. If we really take these things seriously and look at how they can help us through these battles we will become a force to be reckoned with! We will be armed with power that will save our lives. The Lord is trying to save our lives, and if we choose to follow Him we will never regret it.

I love you all and hope you have the best week ever!! If you ever want to send a letter my way here's my address!

Washington Everett Mission

PO Box 13390

Mill Creek, WA 98082

Kia Kaha,

Sister Twede:)