A "Flood" of Blessings!

HAPPY P-DAY MY AMAZING FAMILY & FRIENDS!

I hope you all have had an amazing week! I miss you all so much and

really hope you know that... Every single one of you! I'm so blessed

with so many amazing people in my life. I'm very grateful to God for

that!

This week was one for the books. We had so much success and so many

blessings from the Lord. As a district, we set a goal of getting three

new baptism dates per companionship this week. Elder Hansen and I

really wanted to reach this goal this week. Every night I would pray

with a much faith as I could muster that we could find three people

that the Lord has prepared to receive the message of the restoration

of the gospel of Jesus Christ this week. This definitely was a

testimony builder in that if you pray in faith and ask, if it be

according to God's will, He will grant unto you your righteous

desires. The Lord blessed us with THREE people to set baptism dates

with and EIGHT new investigators this week! We are so blessed! It was

amazing to see these prayers answered according to our faith!




D&C 103:36

36 All victory and glory is brought to pass unto you through your

diligence, faithfulness, and prayers of faith




I'm so excited for Thanksgiving & Christmas coming up. It seriously is

the most wonderful time of the year (in my opinion). I just love that

this time of the year is all about being grateful and also about Jesus

Christ and family. It brings me so much joy! So dang excited!

On Saturday night something crazy happened. I was exhausted from the

day so I fell asleep so fast and stayed asleep. Around 5 in the

morning I was woken up by Elder Hansen... He said "Elder Needles, I'm

sorry to wake you up, but we've got a bit of a situation to deal with

right now.". I walked out of my room and realized I was standing in

water! Our apartment had flooded!! One of the new Spanish elders

living in our apartment had used the bathroom and didn't remember to

do this "special thing" you have to do with the toilet so it won't

overflow. Well, it did... And it did ALL NIGHT LONG. It was literally

throughout the WHOLE Apartment. And it was about half an inch deep. It

was awful! Luckily, none of my stuff got ruined, but we had a long day

of people coming in to get rid of the water and replace the carpets.

Not the most exciting thing to wake up to, that's for sure.

This week we had follow up training. This is when all of the trainers

and new missionaries meet and assess their first three weeks in the

mission. It was a great meeting! All of the trainers are just AMAZING

Missionaries and it's so fun to be around a bunch of new missionaries.

They have such a fun spirit about them. It was a fun meeting to be at

and was definitely a different experience being the "trainer" at the

meeting and not the "trainee."

District Meeting was great this week! I had Elder Hansen train on

humility and he did such a great job! I trained on faith. I learned a

lot from studying for this training! After the meeting, we all went as

a district to Subway and got sandwiches because it was national

sandwich day and it was buy one get one free at Subway! It was

awesome! We really are bonding as a district and I'm sad this transfer

is already almost over! We only have one more district meeting this

transfer! It definitely has gone by fast!

Elder Langford & Elder Hafen went to east Texas for interviews this

week which meant we got the car for three days!! Oh how happy we

were!! Elder Langford goes home in two weeks and we are sad he's

leaving. We have so many good memories, but we all go home eventually!

I do in about 44 weeks! Time's going to fly by!

I love you all and hope you have an incredible week! Remember me, but

more importantly, remember Christ!




Love you all!




Your Friend,

Elder Joshua Needles