Neil, Nathan

This week FLEW by! We were abounding this week in miracles, lessons, and pure exhaustion  haha. It was honestly amazing, we taught a few really active members that live farther away and got to hear their conversion stories and help them progress in making and keeping further covenants. We also found a few new people through a returning member and another lady that had been lost in our area book. I couldn't believe how prepared they were and willing to keep commitments! And to top it off, we put our friend on date for baptism and she is super excited!! It was a great week and it was all thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who worked through us to bless His children. I am always so grateful that He trusts us enough to give us opportunities to help in this work!  I love the story in the Bible of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. This week I pondered about a particular detail of the story. Before performing the miracle, Christ first asked the people to roll away the stone. To d...

It's been a few weeks, but in short I got transferred to Zagreb and its been awesome so far! I've got a great companion, Elder Devenport, and we've been worked hard. This week was pretty crazy; lots of running around, early morning drives to the airport, meetings, planning, and R&R for the trainers and trainees. The time flew by but we saw so many miracles in the moments between all of the busy stvari. A member who hasn't had contact with us in years followed a prompting to come by the old church building at the same time we were pulling up to drop something off there and we were able to help him out and he came to church yesterday! We also followed a prompting Elder Devenport received one morning to go talk to a guy from Sudan and he ended up having friends from Salt Lake and wants to meet the missionaries where he lives in Germany! There were so many other moments of service, sharing our testimonies, running into people who had had contact with the church through ...