From July 21:
Well, I am being transferred back up to the
Mountains!! On Wednesday I will move to Stanley, ID between Salmon and Sun
Valley in the middle of nowhere. The population is about 60.... but it is a
resort town, so there are hundreds of people in the summer! Hopefully we will
get to teach people consistently but I feel like it will be a bunch of
planting seeds of faith. Oh well, the Lord sees fit that I serve my time up
there and I will do my best. And it will
be good to be back in the mountains!
My time in Mountain Home has slipped by
faster than I ever imagined. I am sad to leave but happy and excited for
something new. :) I ended my time here with the baptism of Thomas Wildman
this past Tuesday. I can't believe all the progress people have made in coming
closer to Jesus Christ here in just six short months. We set a baptism date
with Lee Kauffman for August 4th! Sadly I won't be here, but I will get
pictures. :) I love being a missionary. And I don't count baptisms as success, I count
the number of lives changed for the better as success. I feel just like
the "other Seventy" that Christ appointed to go out two by two
in Luke ch. 10, "the seventy returned again with joy." I feel joy in the work that I have done in
Mountain Home.
I know for a fact that the gospel of
Jesus Christ brings peace, comfort and joy into people’s lives. It may not be
easy, but I know it is worth it. All the bad things that happen in our life are
for our personal growth and experience. "For our light affliction, which
is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17),
" We should all look forward to when we can "one day rest from
all [our] afflictions." (Alma 34:41) . We can
only attain that rest if we give our heart and soul unto our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, who paid the price for all of our sins. This is why I am giving
two years of my life out here in Idaho. I want to let people know that there is
a way that we can make it through this mortal life and always have hope.
Continue to Keep Moving Forward :)
- Elder Howard (ehoward@myldsmail.net)
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