Week 14 9/29/14

9/29/14

Hey everyone!

Well, another week has just flown by here in alabama!!! I cant tell you how fast time seems to fly when your on a mission. It feels like just yesterday i was leaving my home and now ive been out longer than 3 months! 

In that three months though i have learned just an incredible amount! How to speak spanish (mostly/kind of) for one is huge for me! it actually is a really beautiful language too! some things are way easier to say in spanish and spanish music is just beautiful! I can truly testify of the lords hand in that one! If any of you knew me before i left you wouldve thought it was a joke. "Kieran speaking spanish? NO WAY!!!" haha but i know that because of the lords help i am able to comunicate and help those around me become closer to christ and i am so grateful for that opportunity :)

i know i probably say this like every week, but i really encourage everyone who is able to go on a mission! you will not regret it! its just been one of the best expiriences of my life thus far and i have so much more to experience! i'm way excited to continue to learn and grow! :)

Ok, so as for this week we have been doing awesome!  we have been working with a few investigators that are progressing! Martin and Maria. We also had one of the coolest new investigators ever! his names roberto and he comes to our english class but really wants to know about the gospel as well, he lives far away (in hampton cove about 30 minutes away) but is so committed to learn that he gets a ride to huntsville, then stays here all day just to be able to go to english class in the evening. We are hoping to be able to teach some gospel lessons during the day while he is in town then english at night. He also is interested in church and so hopefully this coming week he will be really progressing! we were very excited to work with him and are very excited to continue working with him.

Also this week i made kind of a reinstated goal. I have felt lately that i have not been the best at talking to everyone. Thus i prayed for help and decided i would talk to every single person. All the sudden people just were put into my path to talk to! i felt so much more a missionary when i actually talked to everyone, so now i just need to not slack off, to stay determined in my goal! 

It is amazing though how as you make righteous goals and strive to achieve them and pray for help. The lord will provide a way! (1 nephi 3:7) He commands us to do hard things sometimes but we can always do it! i know that he is always there to help us!

This week i also discovered my new favorite scripture! 1 for the meaning, and 2 because i love eagles. its in Isaiah 40:31 and says....

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;they   shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

I just love it because it shows that as you put your trust in the lord he will bless you! he will strengthen you! he will allow you to acomplish any task he gives you because he will renew your strenth! 

I just want to bear testimony that i know god does lift us and strengthen us. On days when i have felt so tired from biking that i didnt think i could do it. All that i had to do was say a small prayer and i felt rejuvenated and ready to ride some more! The lord does watch over us! he does protect us and he does renew us! as we pray for help he does answer our prayers and he does help us! I know that we can run and not be weary and run and not faint. all through the power of our god. He lifts us and protects us if we just have a particle of faith enough to call out to him! HE LOVES US! I know that these things are true and that this is the true church. I know that we are always watched out for :)

I love you all so much. Please share your testimonies daily, they are the most powerful tool to help others come unto christ. you 're all awesome!

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-Elder Steele

p.s. Please still go to mormon.org and mormonchannel.org and lds.org and search the videos to share with your friends and family! the videos are awesome!! Let us all be missionaries :)

I did get a crock pot and i made pulled pork and it was awesome! tomorrow i am probably making cafe rio stuff. Also, elder jackson is from California. As far as spanish i really only speak like 25% spanish on an average day, but about 50% on sundays or when we have branch activities. Its coming along though! im getting better every day :) I am healthy haha, i work out almost every morning and dont often eat out, i eat as much fruit and vegetables as i can afford too so im doing awesome :) The branch is really really nice! I love working with them, theyre just all super busy!