Budgeting

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to those who sent Birthday emails! This week was good. We got the new Liahona for September2017. We are still waiting for June & August but we have September! Elder Holland gave a talk titles The Gospel Plan to Happiness. It was so awesome. I encourage everyone to be on the lookout for it. This week was full of excitement with transfers and Elders leaving for Brazzaville, we have a new Elder who just got here from the MTC. Other than that we had a self reliance class that we talked about how to make a budget and smart purchases that can help us progress and make money and not cost more money. It was very helpful. I learned a lot and it has given me a greater desire to come back and go to school. I know budgeting is a life skill that can help all of us. I also know the Book of Mormon is true and that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer.

Love you all,

Elder Preston Stephens

Preston.stephens@myldsmail.net                                  

Another crazy week

Hey Everyone,

This week was another crazy week. My companion decided to get his wisdom teeth pulled so we went to the doctor. Well the Dr. said he needs x-rays and his machine is broken so my comp decided that he is just going to try and hold out until he goes home in February. On Friday we had one of our young men teach us how to play “la damion” or La Dame” it’s like checkers but with some more rules and when you get a king he is almost unstoppable. Saturday we found out that the lady we were going to visit her daughter was sick. So we went to the hospital and gave her a blessing. So it was a jam packed week. See if you can cheer someone up this week. Send a text or make a phone call it can really help others.

Love you all,

Elder Stephens

New Mission President

Hello Everyone!

This week was crazy! We had a million things to do! Tuesday we had to do baptismal interviews. Thursday we got to meet our new mission President and on Sunday we had interviews with him. He and his wife are really kind.

Sunday my companion and I had to teach Relief Society again. Third time’s a charm. Right? We then had a really long lesson with an old investigator and then we visited a family who the mom didn’t come to church because her tooth was hurting her. We talked about self reliance.

This week I learned that we need to always read the scriptures in their context. We had an ami who tried to prove us in the scriptures but he wasn’t reading the entire context.

Love you all,

Elder Stephens

Preston.stephens@myldsmail.net

Lost

Hello Everyone,

This week was really good we got to teach with two of our branch missionaries on Thursday and on Friday it was really cool.  Wednesday we got super lost looking for a person’s house. Like we were so far away that a lady told us we would never get there on foot. She told us we had to take a motorcycle. Missionaries can’t so we walked and well eventually we did make it! We walked around for like 2.5 hours looking for this place! In our district meeting we talked about the Sabbath Day Observance. Preach my Gospel says “When a community or nation grows careless in its Sabbath activities it’s religious life decays and ALL aspects of life are negatively affected.” I tried to think about that and I know it is true if we are not careful we could be hurting ourselves and others if we do not do our best to keep the Sabbath day holy.

Love you guys have a wonderful week,

Elder Stephens

Preston.Stephens@myldsamil.net