Dear Family,
This week has actually been really good concerning persecution. I don't think we had any swear words or middle fingers the whole week, it's been a nice change.
This week we had exchanges, and I was with a guy whose been out 22 months, named Elder Gordon. He is the nicest Elder i've ever met. He is quiet and exactly obedient. He knows how to do the work, and does it. He's from Moab Utah. We got work done when I was with him, and felt the spirit strongly.
Oh, and 2 days ago it SNOWED. That was not what I expected coming to SoCal, but it was sweet. We looked out the window and we had about 2 inches. I'll send some photos. It disappeared, but the temperature right now ranges from about 30 on some days to 100 on others. Its been a wild ride, and somedays we come home and cant feel our hands with sore knuckles.
We're teaching a girl named Cassie, and I hope she's still interested. We went and visited with her and she knew nothing about anything religious, and Elder Peterson basically gave her the first discussion.
What was cool was that at one of our dinner's, we were with an older couple in a trailer park, and she told us after the message that she could feel our priesthood. That was cool, I'd never heard it in that way before. I know that as I continue to do the work, i'll be blessed with the spirit ...
A story I want to share with you is something that means a lot to me. It comes from some random village, but it talks about the master of the field taking his worker to a huge boulder, and telling him to push it. He leaves and comes back at the end of the day, and the worker looks at him in sorrow and says, i'm sorry, I just couldn't move it. It was too big. The master of the field tells him, I didn't ask you to move the boulder, I asked you to push it. In that same sense I know that as long as i'm doing what i'm supposed to, I will be blessed even if it doesn't immediately result in a baptism.
Thank you SO much for all of your words of encouragement. It means the world that you are all there for me. I know some Elders who aren't as lucky, so for that I am grateful. Give my love to the family and Tutu. I love you guys, take care. My prayers are with you,
Elder Watson
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