Today I want to start out with numbers for my mission: First, I have four mice kills already! The number I am even more happy about is "1" because I have now killed one bat in my life!!! That doesn't happen all too often.
Earlier in the week me and my companion saw a tornado of birds, or so we thought. When we got closer we realized it was hundreds of bats flying in a big circle!!! It was so weird. They have been haunting our village this entire month.
When I got home yesturday, from doing my laundry, I went to put my newly cleaned sheets back on my bed but as I moved one of the sheets, a bat happily fell on the floor....That was unexpected and totally gross. He was flying all over the apartment and seemed excited to have a new home. No way! So now I have killed a bat with a sword and am not sleeping with sheets until I can clean them again. My companions have labeled me the small nocturnal animal slayer! I'll take that.
Now onto more important issues. Just this morning I studied the talk, Yearning For Home, by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. I would invite and challange all who have time and those who don't have time to read it. But I also wish to say that you need to read it with Mathew 10:14 going in your mind at the same time. The promises made and the connections you find really show what we must be willing to do to earn our way home and what God promises to do to help us along the way.
But as a few insights I just wish to add that we have to be trying to keep our eyes and ears open to the direction form the Savior. Always be on watch. If you are one that the signs and mysteries have not been shown to (like me), we have to find a way to keep oourselves willing to follow the call home. We must understand that as we are studying and looking for answers we can recieve them if we are truly willing to follow. Those who would only store up the pearls for themsleves will never have them bestowed on them. Instead, it is given to those who are willing to share and help others. That idea gives me hope and courage to keep trying to share the gospel in the strange circumstances that I find myself in. We are busy teaching and walking (miles and miles) to share the gospel but the things we teach are not always understood the way we hope and we don't have as much success getting people to really understand the gospel in its fullness. We keep trying. The gospel is true!
I am worried about power being cut again as it has gone out all day and may companion needs a turn on the computer, so I will just end it here but I do want all of you to know that God lets you have those mysteries if you are willing to use them to help others. Be the examples that we have all been called to be just as our Redeemer was for us.
Love you all so much! Keep those letters coming - I depend on them.
Elder Edison
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