Elder Jaron Larson: Happy New Years!!!

Hey! Happy New Years everyone! It's been another great week! We were starting to get a little burned out just because we are working so hard but that's okay! Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming! No but really it's been good, at least aside from the missionaries in the zone that either have health problems, disobedient problems or some other type of problems... it's all just problems. All you can do is love all the missionaries to death :)

We had a few really good lessons this week. One with Angelina about prayer and she even prayed at the end of the lesson! She also promised she would come to church "one of these times" when she said she'd come on Easter the last time we asked her. So that was awesome! Then with Manuel... he told us he's been praying for an answer to know if what we teach him is true. So that went good as well!

If you're interested in what we did new years eve... we had a really good dinner with a member. We had to be in at 7, so we played ping pong up until 10:30 (super fun!) We woke up at 11:55, had a countdown, drank Apple cider, then went back to bed lol.

Happy New year!

President Meservy sent us a talk called "Remember Lot's Wife," by Elder Holland. If you don't know the story of Lot.... Lot was commanded to take his family out of sodom and gomorrah, the Lord also told them to not look back... when Lot's wife turned back... she turned into a pillar of salt. He had us read this because of the message it shares. It's important that we are always looking forward and not backward. God doesn't care where we've been or what we've done... he really just cares about where we are going and the direction we're heading. Be looking forward into this new year! I <3 you all!

Love Elder Larson