Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a great week, we sure did! Our week started with us finally being able to do some service! Our service at a food pantry in Clifton Forge, another city in our area, got as approved by the area presidency after about 7 weeks of waiting. It was definitely worth the wait! We got to unload their trucks and hand out some food, I absolutely love serving the people in our area.
We were also able to put one of the friends we've been teaching on baptismal date! His name is James, he's a super kind person who has a lot of questions. He's gone through several sets of missionaries, some previous missionaries in our area found him in the summer of 2019. We've been in contact with him and he's even been coming to church! Two Sundays ago there was fast and testimony meeting and all of the little kids in our branch all shared their testimonies. It was very powerful, and we called James after the meeting to see what he thought about it. He said he absolutely loved it and wanted to be a member of our church!! He is still working on overcoming some different challenges in order to be prepared for baptism, his date is March 7th! Please keep James in your prayers.
I also absolutely loved the Come Follow Me for this week. I'm grateful for the chance that I have to share that story to so many people and it was super nice learning more about it. I would like to take this chance to testify to you all that Joseph Smith really did see our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. The Heavens are open, our Heavenly Father loves all of us so much. We can all receive answers to our questions as Joseph did. I'm grateful for the First Vision, as it made it possible for the Church of Jesus Christ to be restored to earth once more, never to be taken away.
I love you all! Thank you for all of your love and support.
Elder Larkin
Pics: Elder Aloisio's 19th birthday!! Also, I burned a shirt at my 1 year mark!! 1 year down, 1 to go!
