Dear Family,
So we had transferences but i stayed here! Yay! I'll be here for a total of at least 6 months now. I'm pretty stoked because this is like the best place to work. Close to everything and because we are the zone leaders of the assistants we have access to all the good stuff first ha ha. Elder Hann stayed too so we are pretty excited to work together for another transfer. I've been here for a while so today i destroyed our house and moved everything around to try and get a new vibe going, we'll see how that works out.
It was pretty funny too because I've already said bye to everyone here in the area because i was certain that i would leave but now I'm gonna have to be like, surprise! i lied! ha ha.
This last week went by pretty quick. And this week is passing even faster. We've had lots of opportunities to use the priesthood these last couple days and I've really been grateful for the experiences we've had. We visited Sister Nilza that we baptized two weeks ago a gave her a blessing. We had given her daughter that is taking care of her a blessing of comfort the other day and she told us about how ever since that night she hasn't felt the feelings of anguish or overwhelmed in anyway. Also that she had a dream where she was wanting to be baptized and she was searching a searching for Elder Hann and I but she couldn't find us anywhere; she thought it was funny that she wanted us and not her pastor. So did we.
There is a hymn that i have been thinking about lately, in Portuguese it's 'assombro me causa' but in English i don't know what it is. Its a sacrament hymn. One line in English that i love is where it says 'it is so wonderful that he should care for me, enough to die for me-'...Yes that one that your thinking of now. I've been studying a lot about repentance and its pretty interesting. First off you feel worse then the dirt beneath your shoes than later you feel so good that you think your shoes aren't even touching the ground. I feel like i need to be so much better and feel like there's so much missing in my character but then i get on my knees and i hear a voice that says 'take it easy, you're a lot closer than you think, try again and you'll see!' This tender mercy and millions others are given to me and all just because He cared enough and He loves us enough. I remember playing video games before the mission. That one Mario cart on the baby course on the Nintendo game cube. Jared had made a record on that course that seemed impossible to beat. Every time i started out i had to make the first corner so perfectly and couldn't leave any space at all or else i for sure wouldn't be able to beat it. Whenever i messed up the action was automatic, 'start button - restart race'. How cool would it be if that option was available in real life!! As i turned on the replay 'ghost' from the high record time i could follow his line and measure how well i was doing in the race and judge my own status and how i was going along. Because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ these things are options to us in real life! Christ came to earth and did everything perfect, he set the record for this life. Showed us how to make the corners and evade the pitfalls, knowing it wasn't as easy as he made it look he gave us the restart option of repentance and baptism by immersion. Then left us a guide, the Holy Ghost to show us exactly what line to follow and where to go. And whats better yet is that he made it a team race! He had to go it alone, but we have the support of our Bishop, Mom and Dad, and many others!
I am so glad that i know these things are true. With all my heart. Of the billions of people that don't know it, i take peace in knowing i can say "I personally testify that it's true" those are powerful words that have a powerful effect.
I love you all sooo much and hope you guys have a great week! Loves!
So we had transferences but i stayed here! Yay! I'll be here for a total of at least 6 months now. I'm pretty stoked because this is like the best place to work. Close to everything and because we are the zone leaders of the assistants we have access to all the good stuff first ha ha. Elder Hann stayed too so we are pretty excited to work together for another transfer. I've been here for a while so today i destroyed our house and moved everything around to try and get a new vibe going, we'll see how that works out.
It was pretty funny too because I've already said bye to everyone here in the area because i was certain that i would leave but now I'm gonna have to be like, surprise! i lied! ha ha.
This last week went by pretty quick. And this week is passing even faster. We've had lots of opportunities to use the priesthood these last couple days and I've really been grateful for the experiences we've had. We visited Sister Nilza that we baptized two weeks ago a gave her a blessing. We had given her daughter that is taking care of her a blessing of comfort the other day and she told us about how ever since that night she hasn't felt the feelings of anguish or overwhelmed in anyway. Also that she had a dream where she was wanting to be baptized and she was searching a searching for Elder Hann and I but she couldn't find us anywhere; she thought it was funny that she wanted us and not her pastor. So did we.
There is a hymn that i have been thinking about lately, in Portuguese it's 'assombro me causa' but in English i don't know what it is. Its a sacrament hymn. One line in English that i love is where it says 'it is so wonderful that he should care for me, enough to die for me-'...Yes that one that your thinking of now. I've been studying a lot about repentance and its pretty interesting. First off you feel worse then the dirt beneath your shoes than later you feel so good that you think your shoes aren't even touching the ground. I feel like i need to be so much better and feel like there's so much missing in my character but then i get on my knees and i hear a voice that says 'take it easy, you're a lot closer than you think, try again and you'll see!' This tender mercy and millions others are given to me and all just because He cared enough and He loves us enough. I remember playing video games before the mission. That one Mario cart on the baby course on the Nintendo game cube. Jared had made a record on that course that seemed impossible to beat. Every time i started out i had to make the first corner so perfectly and couldn't leave any space at all or else i for sure wouldn't be able to beat it. Whenever i messed up the action was automatic, 'start button - restart race'. How cool would it be if that option was available in real life!! As i turned on the replay 'ghost' from the high record time i could follow his line and measure how well i was doing in the race and judge my own status and how i was going along. Because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ these things are options to us in real life! Christ came to earth and did everything perfect, he set the record for this life. Showed us how to make the corners and evade the pitfalls, knowing it wasn't as easy as he made it look he gave us the restart option of repentance and baptism by immersion. Then left us a guide, the Holy Ghost to show us exactly what line to follow and where to go. And whats better yet is that he made it a team race! He had to go it alone, but we have the support of our Bishop, Mom and Dad, and many others!
I am so glad that i know these things are true. With all my heart. Of the billions of people that don't know it, i take peace in knowing i can say "I personally testify that it's true" those are powerful words that have a powerful effect.
I love you all sooo much and hope you guys have a great week! Loves!
Elder Romm
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