Hello once again my wonderful family. These weeks just fly by and now as of this sunday I have completed 5 months in the mission. It has just flown by so fast! Today in a meeting of our zone I was talking to elder Brown from my mtc district and we were laughing so hard while remembering the fun things we did in the MTC. Also at how we have been out longer than we were in the MTC. Time is just such a strange thing. Well as i said last week we had a baptism and I have pictures today and Also from this sat as we had another baptism of an old lady named Celia. This lady is so awesome as missionaries have been working with her for months and years and her neighbor also , our ward mission leader, and finally she decided to take the step and become a member of the Church and enter into this narrow path that we get to follow back to our Heavenly Father after this life. She is just a super tough old lady that has had 8 kids and worked her whole till recently when her husband died like 5 years ago and lives with one of her daughters and her grand daugters now. It was amazing to me to see how she progressed over these last months and taht she had really grown much closer to Chirst and our Father. It was such a fun journey. For conference we could only go to one session and with the time change we missed half of it as we were inviting our investigators to go with us. Its all good as we get the LIahonas before anyone else haha. This week has really been fun as I have gotten to know my companion more and he is very awesome. He has a very powerful testimony and is a very good teacher. I can learn alot from him. It is hard when we have investigators that listen to all that we have to share and feel and know that it is true and still do not acceppt this amazing message. They are so close to true happiness but still so far. Remeber this as we all know the truth and now it is only up to us to live it. So as we loose investigators we are constantly searching for new people as there are always people prepared and waiting for us. The Lord and our Father are always watching over us and our lives and prepares people around us and prepares people through us as we are really trying to be diciples of Christ and trying to become like Him. As we let the goodness of the Gospel of Christ into our lives and reallly try to live it better than we ever have before, we really can have these blessings. As we teach everyday the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a very simple manner as 5 Things that ew have to complete in this life, I want to explain now. First is faith, faith that we can do all that we need to do in this life to follow Christ. Faith is first and for our whole life it is the most important as we can not do anything past faith, without faith. It is something that, yes we can a little at first but it is something that is constantly growing over time. At times it falls but it is here like we are taught in Ether 12 that it is after the trial of our faith, we gain our witness, our testimony. 2nd is repentance. We repent all the days of our life because we are so imperfect. It is only with this repentacne that we can have happiness in the life and the fullness of joy with God after this life. 3rd is baptism as we follow this perfect example of Chirst we are let in through the gate that leads to eternal life. 4th The holy ghost as we receive this gift and guide we can enjoy the blessing, feelings, guidance, protection of our Father through this amazing missionary and 3rd member of the God Head. Something that I dont think about very often but is very true is, that we have our father and our brother these two members of the godhead and also we have the Holy Ghost. The love that the Father and Son have for us is more than we can imagine, but also the love that this constant companion that we have, also is very strong. As we strive our hardest to be worthy of this gift, he brings the love of our father to us His Children. THe gift of the holy ghost is so very important in this life. And 5th is that we endure to the end. This includes all the work that we have in callings and work that we do in the temple. Also the work in our families and our actions everyday. This 5th step also is so very important as this is the path, the long and narrow way back to our Father as everyday, every decision that we make is so very crucial to all of eternity if we realize it or not. Every thing we do has a consequence and there is nothing tht we do that goes unseen by our Father. Well this is just what I felt like sharing today so I hope that it helps. I want to hear stories from conference as I love it so much and cant wait to go again in the conference center!! Well family take care and always love each other!!!
Love, Elder Larkin
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