It was so great to hear from you all today! I heard from all of my family members! Its sounds like you are all doing great, keep working hard!
This week was a great week. First of all, my comp and I are best friends, so that's way awesome. Well, we were way stoked on music theory ( b/c one of the elders in our district is a music major and started teaching us some things) and so we decided that we needed a piano...ASAP. sooooo, we stopped by a less active member who was super nice and they actually let us in which was super awesome and as we were leaving, I saw that they had a piano! We then started telling them that we had just talked about getting a piano and asked them where we could get one...he told us to take their piano...for free!! so on Saturday my district spent the morning carrying a piano, down 9 FLOORS! then up 3 to our apt. I never would have thought that I would ever move a piano 9 stories in my life and now this was the 2nd time on my mission that it has happened, but we got a piano NO BIG DEAL! so that was fun and tiring. It was way cool, as we were waiting for this way make shift "moving van"( if you can even call it a moving van) to show up, we started jamming and it was so cool to see people opening their windows and stop on the streets to hear us. People on their balcony started clapping and everything! it was so much fun and so cool to see joy finally in their faces!! FINALLY!!!! Its so interesting, you read in the scriptures that those who follow God, "prosper in the land", and those who reject God...don't prosper in the land. Its simple. Its interesting to me b/c I'm living in a place where the majority of the people don't follow God and this place (as in Ukraine) where I live, is a dump. Its terrible the living conditions and people are just not happy and people just complain and compare with other places about how much better other places are. Then I look to America, why is it so much cleaner and nicer? b/c more people follow God. Its simple and its all over the book of Mormon. Its a chain reaction when you follow God. When you do what God says, then you live happier, then you want more of that happiness, then you begin to realize that you are being cleaner and things are actually working out for your benefit and all of these blessings are coming (D&C 130:20-21). You just live better. Its what the Gospel does, it literally improves everything, so why not live it? Right?! Anyways, Saturday was super cool too b/c there is a senior couple that are Professional singer and floutis and they with a professional piano player member did a mission wide tour. We invited everyone to it and it was a great success. Last night we went to find less actives and we met someone that we are convinced was sent by the adversary. We started talking to him and he would NOT let us go, we were on our way to find a less active and he talked with and ended up following us for almost an 1.5 hr. When my comp tried to contact someone, this man would literally pull him and say that he needed more help then they did. 4 people came up to us to try and talk that he pushed away!! it was crazy how persistent this man was. we ended having to shut the door in an apt bldg on him to get away from him. But We ended finding this inactive family who seems to be really nice, so that was a huge miracle. They said that we could come back in a few days. Today I studied in Isaiah and a little about what it means to "reason together" with God, so our sins can become white as snow. I learned a lot about how Godliness really means "order" and that God works in order and when we reason with God he will show us wisdom. And when He will show us wisdom, we will come to know that His ways "are higher than our ways" and we will want to follow Him and in doing so, our sins will be white as snow. I love this Gospel and I so pumped to be here. Please continue to pray for missionaries. Go out and find someone who needs help!
Thanks for all you do for me! have a great week!
-Sean
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