Boulders, Studies, Divine Gift of Forgiveness

This week was pretty awesome. We got to do some service at the dome again! We dug some holes to plant some trees and there was a massive boulder. So we got to split it with a sledgehammer! It was awesome. And then they gave us a bunch of treats too.

This week we had 2 incredible days where we found a lot of people-- it was crazy. It's amazing what happens when you talk to random people! 

The hardest part for us is getting people to come to church. For some reason people either forget or are hesitant to come. So we've been working on that. 

I got to go on an exchange again this week which was incredible! I love to serve with other elders because I learn so much from them. 

This week I've been focusing on really making my studies effective and revelatory. I've been using the little free time that I have to study The Divine Gift of Forgiveness by Neil L. Andersen. It's really incredible and has taught me so much about Jesus Christ's atonement. I recommend it for everyone, it helps you to have a healthy view of repentance, turning towards God! 

I love you all, I'm doing well!

Let me know how you're all doing! 

- Elder Dahl

Zone Conference!

In zone conference we had Elder Hunsaker in our area 70 just show up! It was incredible. Here are some of my zone conference takeaways:

• The most worth to me is to declare repentance and help them find joy
• Focus on things that matter
• Have a goal to reach for
• God wants to bless us and wants us to be incredible disciples and the only thing stopping us from that is ourselves! 
• Choose to have the faith to see and perform miracles
• Take complete responsibility for everything I do

I have a lot more but I'll keep it to that!

This week I had a crazy experience. We're meeting with this friend we're teaching and he starts off with saying, "I read 4 chapters of the Book of Mormon!" It was incredible for him and then we start teaching him about the word of wisdom and he says he's not going to follow it, he loves smoking too much. So I tell him we can't keep coming back if he's not willing to try to follow it and he flips out. He starts calling me things I've never been called before and I felt so helpless. I couldn't say anything back otherwise he'd get more mad. We should've left a while before but for some reason we didn't. Anyways, it was a good humbling experience. I'm alright now-- we're not going by him again.

For my spiritual thought, I am really working on being more humble and letting the Lord into my life always. It's been great-- everyone can be more humble and it just makes life so much better! It's a great thing to let God prevail in your life. So I encourage all of you to look into yourself and find ways to give to the Lord and humble yourself before him and watch the miracles come! 

Love you all! 

- Elder Dahl

The Dome and Thelma

Highlights this week: 

A couple decides they want to build a house. Neither of them have any idea how to build a house! So they watch YouTube videos and now they are building a house by themselves with a huge dome in the middle! The coolest part is at the foundation, he has his kids' favorite scriptures so his house is built upon Jesus Christ. And there's a wall in the basement with the handprints and names of everybody who has helped build it. There are a lot of missionaries that have helped. They say they'll house any missionary that comes back to visit which is pretty cool. 

Also someone I taught in Libby Montana just got baptized! It was incredible. She was so excited and ready!

This week we had stake conference which I usually love but this time I was just so tired I did not get much out of it sadly. But I'm excited for February because we have quite a few baptisms scheduled. Hopefully they all go through! 

I'm learning to love street contacting to find people. Like just talking to people on the street. 

This week I've been focusing a lot on what it means to have charity and trying to increase it in all my interactions. It's an incredible gift and it comes as we do our best everyday to remember Jesus and pray for it as well. 

This is going to be a good transfer.

Love you all! 

- Elder Dahl