Elder Williams Mission

  Hello everyone! If I didn't reply to your email or send you one personally this week, I'm sorry. It's been crazy! And yeah, huge news! Elder Kim and I have only been in Alpena for 1 transfer (6 weeks) and we are both moving out again! I will now be going to Saginaw to be a zone leader! And Elder Kim is going down to Lansing. I will be sad to leave Alpena so soon, especially since I love the area and people so much! That's the biggest thing I've done this transfer, is pray to love the people here. And I do so dearly. But I am so excited for Saginaw too! I will be following the song by Lefty Frizzell! But what a good final week for Alpena! We had a good transfer with the Houghton Lake Elders, I was with Elder Flamm. And we had a good district council, and I have had some of the best lessons in my life this week! One of the highlights was I was able to interview the Matthews family for baptism! One of the great lessons was with Lisa. She has only been taught twice no...

Hello everyone! This week has been a really good one, and a tough one too! It's been crazy! We were able to find 4 new people to teach which was an awesome miracle! We found 2 of them from members, and 2 of them over Facebook (it still works!) And I had an exchange with the Grayling Elders! We had some cool experiences getting to meet each of these new people. We met with a man named Mike at a restaurant called Big Boy, and had a good meal and a good lesson on the Restoration! He is at the point in his life where he doesn't care at all what others think about him, just what God thinks about him. So he is in the perfect mindset to accept the restored gospel! He readily accepted the Book of Mormon and wants to come to church! And we met with a lady named Laurie that feels lonely and doesn't know what her purpose is. Hopefully we can help her understand God's love and her purpose! And we met the other two people, Roger and Marge which were different friends of different me...

Hello everyone! As you can tell, we drove a little bit this week. It was a good time though, I love driving! We had exchanges with the Houghton Lake Elders on Tuesday, Gaylord Elders on Wednesday, and Traverse City on Friday. And everywhere is at least an hour and a half from here. 😂  It was a really good time having tradeoffs with Elder Olson from Houghton Lake on Tuesday, he's a good guy. We have a lot in common, so that was really cool. I am really starting to love love members of my district more and more. It was great being with Elder Campbell on Wednesday too, he's super funny and he's a good chef. We have a lot in common too with music, talking about music is how I connect with most people haha. He has a lot of talent and he's a good guy. And on Friday I got to be with Elder Hunter! He is one of my most favorite missionaries ever. I missed being with him and being in Traverse City. It's really busy there now and it's super green! It's c...

Hey, what's up everyone! It's been another great and busy week! We had a final meeting with Elder Bennett as we shared some miracles and how the initiative has been since we learned last week. And at the end, he shared his testimony of Jesus Christ, and it was so powerful. If you want to bring the spirit into the room, testifying of Jesus Christ is a sure way to do it. The APs called us later that night, and said that we would get the opportunity to meet with just Elder Bennett for a bit over video call! That was so cool, Elder Kim and I just talked with Elder Bennett for about 15 min, I love him! So I went and listened to his General Conference talks and some devotionals he gave, I would recommend them! We also had a great discussion with with missionary district this week about the Plan of Salvation, and the spirit was strong. There is power in knowing God's plan for us but it isn't just to give us an eternal perspective, it's also a knowledge that we can be bless...

 Hello everyone! This week has been super busy, and super good so I will try and make this quick! We had the wonderful opportunity to receive council and training from Elder Randall K. Bennett of the General Authority Seventy this week! It was such a wonderful and eye-opening experience for me! Overall it was about 8 hours over 4 days, and I could've done a lot more! There was so many things he taught us and the spirit taught us, I won't be able to tell you all of it. Some of the things he asked us to focus on is living the two great commandments and loving members. And I have gained such a greater love for the members since then! He also invited us to pray more than ever before, so now I pray before every phone call I make! It's brought some great experiences and cool miracles! And he asked us to pray with all the energy of heart for charity, which was super cool, because that's what I picked for our commitment for district council last week! The spirit r...

  Helllloooooo Everyone! I hope you all are doing well, and that you have had a good week! This week was pretty good for us, Elder Kim and I are brand new to Alpena, so we are still trying to figure things out. The branch members here are super nice and helpful, especially the Branch President and his wife, the Hermansen's. The branch is much smaller than Traverse City's, but we are hopefully in the progress of changing that. And the work here is harder as well, to be honest. We have been calling through people that have reached out to the missionaries or been taught before, and we are seeing some great miracles! One lady that it said "do not contact" we reached out to and said we will pray for her. And she expressed such great thanks, and said she is moving to Tennessee on Friday, and may need help moving. She asked us to find her a church down there to go to. So you already know which church that will be. ;) A lady I found on Facebook said she wants to come to churc...

  Well everyone, my time in Traverse City has come to an end. I will be moving to Alpena now, which is still in the same zone. I will be the district leader over an all Elders district. So I look forward to it, I'm getting Elder Kim as my companion, and he is a technology genius and really good at making videos. So maybe I'll be in some cool videos soon! It was a very busy and crazy week this past week, Wednesday we went up to Sault Ste. Marie which is in the upper peninsula for district council. And that was super fun, we got to see the Sault locks and Canada, so that was so cool!  Thursday we had our last district council together as the Manistee district. Then Manistee came over again on Friday for a tradeoff with the ZLs.  Saturday is a day that will never be forgotten! Elder Clark and I had the opportunity to assist with Shelly being baptized! Brother Fulk one of the members in the branch baptized her! They had such a strong connection and Brother Fulk really wanted ...