The work

 This has definitely been a journey the last couple transfers. God has been testing me and testing me and testing me. Making it the hardest stretch of my mission so far. I've battled alot of obstacles including the area(can be slow sometimes), companion changes/struggles, and lots of anxiety but gods given me so much strength recently and it's increased my testimony so much. I know that if we are willing to submit to his will and do his work that he will provide, and that includes that he will provide for our family's and I can testify of that. He's helped my family in so many ways and we need to thank him for all those tender mercies. 


It's the start of a new Transfer and I'm in Connecticut as a zone leader. Kind of a big change right? Good thing that I'm just kidding because that would be stressful haha. I'm still in Staten Island with Elder sharp. We had a baptism last Sunday for our friend Kenneth and it was a miracle actually. He's 17 and for the past week and a half he's been too scared to ask his parents for permission. The night before his baptism we had a study and we offered to give him a blessing to help comfort him. He felt alot better after and even though I've never given a blessing in a park we knew it was the right thing to do. At 3 in the morning we received a text and when we would up he said that he had asked his parents and after a long conversation they felt he's ready to make his own decisions. (Mind you his parents are catholic). Pretty crazy. All sunday morning besides the text we didn't have any contact with him but he showed up at 9:40 just before church with a huge smile on his face. 

Fast forward to this week

We didn't have any new friends to church but kenneth came. He was a little nervous after 1st hour to go to young men's but he went and we found him after and he made some new friends. He even got Interviewed for the preisthood and for a temple recommend and he will be getting that next week!!!! God is so good!!

Mmm just trying to think if I've got anything else for you all. 

Well as you know I'm in a car area I drive alot and I mean like 40 miles a day. I know that's not alot compared to at home but yeah. Anyways we have a driving monitoring system called tiwi that I absolutely hate and its so sensitive. We have a 23 Nissan rogue. Every time you go off the line even half throttle you get what's called (aggressive driving) and docs you some points. Eventually you lose so many points that you go into the yellow zone. If you lose too many you go into the red. I've gotten a few phone calls that I was in the yellow. I drive so much better than I did at home. Not trying to be a race car driver 100% of the time. More like 75% . I mean they can't just give me a car with a turbo and paddle shifters with sports mode and expect me(elder mikkola) to not hot rod it. But anyway if you saw traffic here you would understand why I love weaving in and out of cars. Part of it is my race car driver habits and the other is patience. I had to take a driver's safety class online last week because I've been in the yellow so much but I got it done in 5 min and got my driving privileges back. Thank heavenly father for that one. I would go crazy riding with my comp. No offense to him but he drives like a grandma. Anyways I've been doing good and I do apologize for not writing but I love you all and I look forward to hearing from you!!!!

Oh wait wait and I went on my last exchange with elder beck😪

Love, Elder Coca-Cola 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NYC

Image
 Well brother and sisters, moms and dads, aunts and uncles, friends and family, oh and great grandma. Wait.... u don't have any sisters...... It was a great week to say the least and I'm greatful to be here in brooklyn. The Lord is so involved in this work and I'm so so greatful to serve as a missionary. We have been teaching a family (mom and son) "Moe and Amaziah". I had met them on Coney Island back in May and she wanted to come to church but couldn't that week then from May into August she didn't answer the phone. Fast forward to about two weeks ago she picked up and I invited her to study with us and to be baptized. She was a little hesitant but after teaching her about the restoration, The Book Of Mormon, Joseph Smith, and especially Russell M. Nelson it was lights out and she desired baptism so much. All of the lessons were so fire and she even said this " I want to live in the Celestial kingdom and keep my covenants". I'm telling you ...
Read more

Elder Mikkolas once a month email

Image
  Well jts been another few weeks but i guess i managed to make it back to the keyboard. It's been quite the grind like usual and we have been struggling to find lots of people. We have had a pretty good progressing pool so that's been nice. We have a family that we are teaching. Chris, Kayla and Destiny are all preparing to be baptised on the 24th of december. Right now they are struggling to know if they want to get married or not. We gave them homework to read the family a proclamation to the world. We are working with them alot and we know that the spirit is going to lead them to the water. We did have a miracle baptism for our friends Lilian and Leo. Last week one of the Spanish missionaries here in staten met them on the street and referred us to them and we gave them a call. They made it to church that sunday but they came after the sacrament so we planned on baptising them on the 24th. The next week we struggled to teach them consistently as she's a busy...
Read more

Inwood

Image
Well everyone I'm still here in inwood. The work is going alright. We had a cool friend rose and her little brother that were going to get baptised. She called Saturday and said that she is no longer Interested in baptism and that she would rather live the worldly life. It kinda broke my heart but it happens so much I know that she will come back at some point and god will provide another friend for us to teach and baptise.  Transfers happened and as far as it goes on where I'm at and who I'm with I'm still in inwood. Im going to miss elder narvato and i love that man so much. He taught me so much about charity and being content with life and what we have. Im excited to go visit him in the Philippines some day! I'm with elder bjornberg. I did get a training call and I guess you could call me his trainer but he's been out for 20 months and he went home from another mission and came back out to NYC. I don't feel like a trainer at all but oh well we are working...
Read more