Prepare!

 June, 4, 2018

Thanks for the great emails this week! I was really happy about the update on things! This week wasn’t bad. Transfers were just a couple of days ago, and I have been informed that I will be getting a new companion (because Elder Mahanzu finished his mission). His name is Elder Ntlebi, and he is from South Africa. I’m excited to see how things go with him. This coming week we will be heading to Nairobi for another MLC, should be good. I know that it is just so crazy that the time has passed like it did. Maybe in the heat and excitement of Elder Mahanzu finishing his mission, I came up with a coming home playlist... Haha, so as I have only four months left, here are some songs that you can listen to, to prepare: 

Goin' Home- Dan Auerbach

Space Song- Beach House

Welcome Home- Radical Face

About Today- The National

Grown Ocean- Fleet Foxes

Blue Ridge Mountains- Fleet Foxes

October- Helio Sequence

Salt Lake City- Beach Boys

Fun Times in Babylon- Father John Misty

Time Of The Season- The Zombies

Switzerland- Daughter

Now, by me doing this, there is no need to think that I am a sleepy missionary... I am alive in the cause! Though we face much discouragement, and persecution, I do enjoy being a representative of Christ. There's a phrase in the scriptures that has always caught my attention. There are multiple verses where Christ says, "Take up your cross". What does this mean for you? I’ll tell you what it means for me. It means we follow Christ through THICK and THIN. We stand by him in the GOOD and the BAD. I have heard so many times people ask something along the lines of "Why doesn't it get easier?" When we adjust our sails to meet God’s will, it seems we are sailing straight into the storm. When we pass through affliction, it should come as no surprise. That is in a measure, what we came here for. It’s is a difficult thing, if not impossible, to actually comprehend the atonement. It’s impossible to really understand how Christ suffered for us. One thing I was thinking about is that along with having suffered for each of our sins, he also suffered for our pains and afflictions. Every time you might have suffered in His name, or for His cause, not only has he seen it, but, he has felt it. Perfectly felt it. And he knows what we have  been through for him, and perhaps that will be accounted for at the day of judgment.

But yeah, I’m outta time! We'll talk next week! 

Love you!

Elder Fraga