January 2, 2018

 
A Picture I took of Elder Baccarini and I before he left

Family and Friends, 

       This week has been a good one. I went on exchanges with Elder Tauanu'u on wednesday. We had an awesome exchange. We shoveled a couple of peoples driveways, and actually ended up helping a less active family move to Mountain Home, ID. They were very thankful to us. It's always cool to see how peoples hearts soften as we serve them. 

       On Thursday, we had a very good lesson with a young spanish couple living with one of our members. We actually set a baptismal date with them. They are very prepared, and they are very ready to receive the restored gospel. The baptismal date, as of right now, will be the same day as their marriage in a couple of months. We're very excited to continue teaching them. On Friday, we had an AMAZING lesson with a spanish man named Alfredo. The spirit was very strong, and he felt it SO MUCH. It was truly incredible.

       District meeting we talked a lot about the new policies regarding phones. They are coming soon, so its important that we learn about how we can best use them as tools to push this great work along. We'll actually be able to teach people outside of our assigned area, on case by case basis, so that should be interesting.

       New years eve was excellent. We spoke in sacrament, and I gave a very well prepared talk about how we can strengthen our testimonies, and how when it comes down to it, the best way to do so is what we call spiritual CPR. In other words: Church attendance, regular Prayer, and regular scripture Reading and study. Those small and simple things build up our testimonies bit by bit, until they are strong. We went out and tried to find people to teach, but nobody was interested. That night, I SAW A SHOOTING STAR! Not just any shooting star though. This one seemed really close! Very red tail, with little streams coming off of it. I got very excited. (hopefully it wasn't a plane crash, wishes dont work as well on those) Either way, since New Years Eve gets crazy, we had to be home by 6:30pm that night. So once we got home, I did my nightly routine, and then I read Jesus the Christ for a while. It's a really great book, and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. It talks about a lot of interesting scriptural and historical truths I didn't know about.

       It's the New Year! This year I'm going to work hard to share the gospel with everyone I meet, so I'm looking forward to doing well this year. Coming up here soon we will be doing a BOM reading challenge, and I would invite all of you to take the challenge with us. On January 5th, we will start the Book of Mormon, from the introduction. On March 30th, we will finish it. 85 days. 7 pages a day. This is the same amount of time that Joseph Smith translated the Book in. Surely we can finish it in the same amount of time.

       Have a good year everyone. 2018 is here!

Godspeed,

~Elder Quiner