Week 17 Letter - A Baptism Coming; Speaking at Zone Conference!

Hey everyone, time is flying today, we have had so little time to do anything because we have to travel to a new area for zone conference. So that will take up a lot of our day, I am just glad that I get to talk right now, to be honest. I love you guys so much, I know you are all doing amazing things and working to improve each day.  Keep working hard!

Today I want to talk about friendship, this came to my mind when writing the beginning paragraph to each of you and I have decided to go with it. Now, friends, what are they? What's their job? And how should I be a good and better friend? 

Friends, whether in your family or just people that you meet, can change your life. People that start as friends can often grow to be more like family, so choose wisely who you make a friend. Friends are supposed to be the people that raise you up in ways you didn't think you needed to be lifted. Friends teach you how to become better, stronger, and improve in all aspects of your life. Harry Potter stated that he could find his own friends without the help of Malfoy, we all have to be able to do the same. If we try and use being cool, and popular to find friends we will only find people who want to use us. When we search for friends to raise our popularity level we can only become friends with the people that are using us the same way. Search to find friends to help, not people to help you. When we search more for a way to give, somehow we always end up getting in some way or another. Be the friend you wished you had and sooner or later you will find, not the person you wanted, but the person that you need.

Be an angel in someone else's life and then you can see the hands of angels more fully in your own. Friends change who you are and what you can do, so be smart, find the ones that you can lift because then in one way or another you can be lifted as well.

I love you all so much, you are all amazing friends to me, I hope you know just how amazing i know each one of you are. Keep trying.  Keep working and never give up.

I love you all, and you have all been amazing friends ;) I hope that you can share it with others because this world needs your light more then it needs any more shadows taking up room. 

We have a baptism planned for this week!  That is always a wonderful thing for everyone involved.

I didn't catch the new mouse living in our house - we will keep trying on that one.

My companion and I have been asked to give the teaching lesson at Zone Conference tomorrow - Teaching with Power!  That's a bit scary.  We also taught the investigator lesson at church yesterday and the APs were in the class visiting along with the Mission President's wife....oh man, no pressure!

Have a great week and I will keep walking and walking and walking.

Love, Elder Edison