Give it your all...no matter what!

Well another great week coming from the 2nd region here in Chile. I hope you all received my voice messages from the last week! But wow we had a great week and we truly received some miracles from the hand of the lord!! If you remember Marco, the Jehovah's witness investigator that we have been working with lately that we found though one of his friends (who is an awesome member, Hernesto his name) We had a few lessons with him this last week having him be our central focus.. and we he said the thing that EVERY missionary wants to hear! "So yeah elders... Ive been thinkin about it lately. And I want to get baptised... but I know I been be ready if you give me just another week and a half. So yeah lets plan on the 18th Elders"!!! WHAT A BLESSING RIGHT!!! He is a stud... he came to conference this last weekend. When I saw him there I we came running up to me gave me a huge hug and says.. "Elder Howard, I want you to baptise me" heheh it was a great feeling to have and a great way to start off conference!

I as a missionary and as a person who totally dig the word of the prophets could speak for every about the great experiences that I have and and the great things that I have learned. But In this little letter I want to share one of the personal revelations that I received that I think will change who I am and help me be a better missionary. Because really that's what its all about, ADAPTING what we have learned into our own lives. yeah so, it was during the talk of Henry B. Eyring during the priesthood session and the basis of his talk (my interpretation) was how to help other receive their true potential. And he starting to talk to some of the leaders about helping their youth to reach their full potential.. and from then on in made me start to think of all of my priesthood leaders, family, friends, and many other examples in which I have had in my life. And it just hit me how great of help all of these other people have offered unto me over my years and that NOW and forever forward that's my new job to help and be one of these examples for other people. Then I continued to think and long story short I came to a huge conclusion and perhaps a new why of thought. My "little revelation" was that now I NEED TO BE FIRM IN MY FAITH, I NEED TO LOSE THE FEAR OF GIVING EFFORTS WITHOUT GETTING THE END RESULTS INTENDED. If you even understand great, if not, not really important. this had been something that I need to learn. I get scared of giving everything if I don't know how the results will be. I have been and always will be willing to give it all, but for fear of failure I sometimes don't. So that was the major conference highlight for elder Howard.. Now its time for me to "go feed the sheep" :)

I love you all

Elder Howard