5/6/13

Hi!

Well, Eli is in the other area right now that is going to be going into the other mission.  IF he is transferred to the Richmond area then we will end up being in the same mission so I'm praying that that will indeed be the case.  I'M SO SORRY I FORGOT MY CAMERA AGAIN!!!  I do have pictures, I promise I have them!  Maybe next week they'll be better ones though!

Thanks for Daniel's address btw, I can't wait to write him!!!  My trainer acts like Cody and is FUN like Cody!  I did get all of the letters and I loved them!!!

Dang, so when I leave, you guys do all these cool things?  I see how it is ha ha, just kidding!  That's so cool!  If you have any pictures, I'll have to see them!  I think Samantha has been there because she's done that wand game thing before so that sounded familiar when you mentioned it.

It was funny when I met President Perry.  He came up to me and started talking about Moses Lake and asked me if there was anything that I wanted to tell him,  almost like he expected me to have something for him!  He kept saying, "This Elder is from my home!"  He also asked about President Baker!

Did you share your testimonies yesterday?  I did and I loved it!  My companion told our District Leaders on the phone that I sounded like Elder Holland with how bold I was in saying it!  Ha ha!  A high councilman was visiting and in his testimony he said that we should pray for the missionaries and people by name.  He said Elder Bird's name and then he said he was sorry he couldn't remember mine. SO, when I got up I said, "Just so you all know which Elder to pray for, my name is Elder Mounts..."  That got the whole branch laughing, especially the high councilman ha ha!

I then proceeded with my testimony, Jesus Christ is my Savior.  I have no doubt about that.  He loves me and because He loves me, He suffered for me individually and for each and every one of us because of that love.  Heavenly Father loves us all as well, because He sent His only begotten son to suffer for us.  THEY LOVE US!  I know that Joseph Smith was a true and living prophet of God, our Heavenly Father.  NO man could make up the Book of Mormon especially with the amount of education that Joseph Smith had.  God worked through Him and Joseph Smith restored Christ's true and living Gospel on the Earth in this dispensation.  How do I know that?  I have prayed my heart out, and poured my soul into prayer to my Father in Heaven and have come to gain that testimony of it's truthfulness.  I have seen my prayers answered time and time again through the words in the Book of Mormon, the truest of any other book.  I know Jesus lives today.  That is my testimony simplified as best as I can.  Invite others to receive a testimony of the truthfulness of it!  If you do not yet have one, GET ONE NOW!  ACT!  I'm talking to everyone at this point.

Being a missionary is amazing!  I can't wait to write to you all again!  I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Elder Austin Mounts