Day 14

THE GOSPEL ANSWERS PRAYERS!

 Today has been so wonderful to me! I love this work so much! I'm so grateful for my loving support back at home and my Dominicans waiting for me to leave, I even feel their prayers! I'd like to start off about today by saying without The Gospel, I'd hate to even THINK where I would be! I can feel great blessings raining upon me! I wouldn't be anywhere else (besides the D.R. :()!

Mom, I'm really upset that they don't want us to leave! I mean, the sooner we leave, the quicker we get to save some Dominicans! ;) I really can't wait to go! I already love those people! During scripture study today, I was pondering on the lessons in Preach My Gospel, and I ended up on the lesson about how God calls Prophets. I read Mosiah 8:13-18! Please read Mosiah 8:18! It's so powerful! I got so much missionary pride to know of the authority and power I posses! Really though, read it! It strengthened my testimony on Prophets and who they truly are! I'm a man called of God and I posses the strength and power to perform miracles! It's so crazy! I can be sure my testimony is strengthened even more than it already was! Even though some things are tough here (waking up reminds me of Coop, going to bed reminds me of Mom and Dad, reading my Scriptures reminds me of Braeden because The Scriptures are made of stories of men, all the Hermanas remind me of Kylie because they are just to darn cute and I want to hug them all, my district reminds me of Justin because they have all became such good friends (except E, he is getting better though) And even though they are now my good Friends they will still never take Justin's place <3 I love Justin, I really hope he can get out here soon, it will be so good, and finally, my branch president's wife reminds me of Jill because I fell in love with her right when she shook my hand!) My spiritual experience for today was we taught a new "mock investigator" today and I truly received the gift of tongues because not only did I say a sentence correctly, but with some speed! My "investigator" was impressed! Dad, my last letter (day 13) said I had problems recognizing The Spirit, well... I prayed for the gift of recognizing The Spirit and it came by the way of when I was teaching, I forgot what I was going to say then E picked up from there to the point that I could remember what the next part of the lesson was! You are so right when you say "when The Spirit shuts up, you shut up" Our lesson went fantastic by the way! Well I love and miss you all. Talk to you on P-day!

Love, Elder Garfield