April 16, 2018

This week we taught so many people!!!!!! Man i cant believe how many lessons we had, like an average of 5 a day! The bad part is they all committed to come to church... ya not a single one came. Ahhh it’s so frustrating! Now i just hope we can stay busy in the right way with the right people!

Let me tell you of a tender mercy. It was my dream to build a shack for someone it SA, well that dream never came true but i got to tear one down this week. That’s close enough. One of our less actives wanted us to help him way early in the morning so we walked up to this township way early and people are looking at us funny. Then we start tearing down this shack..... starting with the roof. Ok if you were wonder tin is not very durable to step on. As i got up to the top and started to take out some nails i was careful to step on the small wood beams underneath the tin roof but i couldn’t see them. I got like the whole roof done except for one last sheet of tin and as i was taking that out i made a wrong step and just plummeted to my death. (so i thought) i also had a crow bar in my hand. Well when i was falling, only God know where that crow bar went. But wait this is the amazing part, i landed on my feet! It’s like i had angel wings man. Seriously, I have no idea how i landed on my feet! i thought for sure i was done for! hahah The less active guy saw the whole thing and was just amazed also! It was only maybe 8 feet from my feet to the floor when i was standing so not super tall but still can’t believe i made it! Ok now i can tell you where the crow bar went.... ya it accidentally hit someone in the face....oops. What a tender mercy though! Don’t worry mom, I’m totally safe. Another good thing that came out of it was the less active came to church for like the first time in forever!

love you,

Elder Shaw

April 9, 2018

Ok, I’m making this one stout! 

My fav conference talk- Dallin H. Oaks: "it’s the 1000 of small decisions we make each day that make up the character of a man not just 1 big decision."

I had a super good week. We found like 10 new investigators. The thing is, none of them are going to progress sooo got to keep finding! We have people on date but probably only 3 serious ones. They have potential, we have just go to get them to church every week! We stay busy but the thing is there is not fruit in our efforts! It’s kinda frustrating but i guess that is how it goes here.

I played soccer today with my companion. He’s pretty good.

I had 2 tender mercies this last Pday. We went to these caves that i went to a year ago and i was the only one who knew how to get through. Long story short is totally got lost in the dark and had no idea where to go but thankfully some how we got totally turned around and ended up coming out of the entrance. I have no idea how that happened! The other tender mercy was me coming to the realization of even though i might have a frustrating companion, it’s all for the better. If i didn’t have him then i wouldn’t become more Christ like as i would if i had a chill companion so I’m very grateful and going to try my best. Also, the area is doing awesome so i would not change a thing!

Love you

Elder Shaw 

April 2, 2018

Sorry I don’t have a lot of time. My week was good. I loved conference so much such. It was a good time for personal revelation. I had my questions answered! My fav talk was the one about the boat in a typhoon and how the guy asked for revelation. I loved the solemn assembly! Wow, I don’t think I have felt the spirit so strong in a long time as they were doing he solemn assembly! We even bought conference treats.

Our ward is combined again with white, black, and colored. I’m pretty sure i have served in like all of the white wards in my mission hahah i dont know what it is, but the president loves to put me with white peeps! There are a good amount of priesthood holders in the ward. Yes i still know xosha.

I’ve had so many tender mercies this week which helped us find 9 prepared people to teach!!! This area is exploding.  i can’t believe it was dead! lol Those are my jumbled thoughts and some pictures.

love, 

Elder Shaw