Aaron

Hello Everyone!  I made it through my first change with only a hospital visit in the first week!  I would say that´s pretty good!

Well to start out, today we dedicated the Hermana´s room. I guess they had a really hard time sleeping last night and didn´t feel good at all.  They definitely felt something really bad there.  So 4 elders went to there room to dedicate it.  Right after the prayer everything already felt better.  It was a really cool experience.

Changes are today!  And I´m not getting changed because I´m still in training!  So on Saturday, for some reason I thought, I really want  a dream.  I haven´t had one in a long time and I really want one.  I know it´s small and silly but I really wanted one.  So the scriptures came to my mind.  I thought of how Mosiah asked that his sons would be safe as they preached the gospel to the Laminites.  The Lord told him that they would be safe because he asked in faith.

I have learned a couple things about faith here.  First, faith without actions is in vain.  If all we needed was faith, how easy would this life be.  Second, faith is believing beforehand.  Listening to the discussions on Lectures on Faith and the Lectures on Faith themselves, there was one example, not so sure where they got it from.  But somebody asked another person, ``Do you believe what I´m going to say?``  He didn´t say do you believe what I said.  That also reminded me of the scriptures.  In the Book of Mormon somewhere, it says that if you ask for something that is good, with faith, believing that you will receive it, you will receive what you desire.

So I did just that.  I prayed for a good dream, believing that I would have a dream as if it had already happened.  That night, I had a dream.  That was really cool.  The next day was Sunday and it was raining.  When it rains here, the numbers at church are very small.  Especially numbers of investigators at church.  But there was one investigator that we needed to come and really wanted to come.  So I did the same thing.  I asked, and he came.  It was so cool to see that work.  I know that if we ask for good things, in faith, believing we will receive, we will receive.

On another note, I had cow stomach!  Wasn´t too bad actually.  But the people that cooked it knew that Americans don´t usually like it so they also cooked chicken.  But I would have had the cow stomach.

There is always a lot to tell and not enough time!  Wish I had more.  Thanks for all that you guys do!  Stay true to the faith!  Love all you guys!

Elder Augat