Hello everyone!!! How are you all doing? I have been doing super good here in Norman Oklahoma! It was a very exciting week with lots of spiritual inspiration given to us from an area 70! We had Elder Paul B. Peiper come and speak with us along with Elder Ruben V. Alliaud also from the 70! Those 2 spoke to us as missionaries, then only Elder Peiper spoke to the entire stake for stake conference. It is kinda hilarious watching the leadership in the stake as there is a general authority there. They want to make sure everything is running just right so that they won't be rebuked or anything like that. We had dinner with one of the counselors in the presidency right before and we asked him about it and you could tell, he was pretty nervous. Everything did go good with stake conference however, he did roast all of the members who weren't at the adult session the night before. Why weren't they there?? Because it was the OU football game and you know how people in the south treat their football!It was quite funny because in the first half of the game, OU was getting blown out and all of that was during stake conference, then right when stake conference had ended and the 2nd half of the game had started, OU made a huge comeback and served Baylor its first loss of the season. Elder Peiper actually mentioned that saying, now the game actually didn't get good until stake conference was over... there is a principle there. Well, I liked the missionary meeting especially because he taught us a lot of stuff we can apply to the work as to member missionary work and teaching lessons. The things that the general authorities are simply inviting us to do as member missionaries is to just simply to invite. Go in with the attitude of "who can I invite to this?" or "who can I invite to that?" I know that there is no other joy we can have, and not a stronger spirit we can feel as we share the Gospel with our friends. We have been commanded to do it from our Lord Jesus Christ and if we truly love him and are grateful for all he has done, stuff like this can come easy. I have a strong testimony about this because I did not know what to expect coming out on the mission. If I could even do it! But the stronger my relationship grew with the Savior, it changed from "can I really do this?" to "it's easy to do because of the strong love I have for the Lord." I promise, as we love the Lord more and strive daily to increase our relationship with him, fear will be replaced by faith and doubt will be replaced with power. We need members in the work, or none of this can be possible!
Well, Elder Williams and I found out yesterday that we will be staying together here in Norman for 6 more weeks! We are very excited not to be transferred! I still think the Lord has some things in store for me in this area and it wouldn't mean anything to me if I would be moved out of here already. We are soooooo very excited and glad to be here! It's gonna be a super awesome time as we continue to serve with one another. No more Mr. niceguys here, we are cracking the whip hard core! Well, I hope you all are doing good, thanks for those who still email me! It's very fun hearing about your lives back home! I love you all and I hope you have another blessed week!
Love,
Elder Weese
Staying put!!!!!!!!!!!!
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