Staying in Yukon!

Dear Family and Friends,

Another awesome week has flown by here in Yukon, this ward is so awesome and I'm excited to get to spend another transfer here with Elder May! :)

Monday for P-day we got to go to TopGolf and it was so much fun! In the evening after dinner we did some tracting.

Tuesday we visited the Edwards family, gave some BoM audio CDs to an investigator, and did a lot of biking around trying to visit people :)

Wednesday morning we went with a member to go visit a former investigator named Joseph and we were able to have a pretty good discussion with him. We got to know him and hopefully we'll be able to go back and teach him so more this next week. After lunch we visited our investigator, Danny, and he let us in for a little bit. He's going through a lot of stuff right now but we were able to read a little of the BoM with him and he said he wants to go to church soon. He still seems pretty promising. After dinner we went out teaching with a member and everything fell through.

Thursday morning we weekly planned and in the afternoon we tracted, tried potential investigators and less-actives, tracted, tried more potential investigators and less-actives, tracted, tried some investigators and members, and tracted. It was a great day and we got to sew lots of seeds for future missionaries! :)

Friday was amazing. We had a good lesson with a less-active, taught the Restoration to an active family and set a date for them to share the gospel, and had a great visit with a LA/PM family. It was so much fun :)

Saturday morning we had correlation. In the afternoon we had a 2 hour discussion with an inactive member who is a member of the Hebrew Roots movement. It was a fun discussion, pretty interesting how he's a Christian and a Jew at the same time...

Sunday was good. Haha I got asked to give the closing prayer in sacrament meeting and I totally forgot about it until we were done singing the closing hymn and my comp reminded me. It was a long walk from the back of the chapel ;) After church we had a couple of recent-convert lessons, tried some less-actives, and did some tracting and got to share the Because He Lives video with a really sweet old couple. Awesome day!

One of my all-time favorite Mormon Messages is one for the youth titled, "Staying Spiritually Fit". If you haven't seen it, you should definitely watch it.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2016-01-006-staying-spiritually-fit?lang=eng

Here's a cool quote from the church's Addiction Recovery Program I found this last week under Step 10:Daily Accountability

"To retain what you have gained, you must stay in fit spiritual condition. You do this by asking the kind of searching questions that Alma suggested about your feelings, thoughts, motives, and conduct. Through daily self-evaluation, you will keep from slipping into denial and complacency."

I think this ties in well with 2 Nephi 28:29-30

"29 Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we need no more of the word of God, for we have enough!

30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have."

Daily accountability is key to good spiritual health because if you're not going forwards, you're going backwards. God cares a lot more about the direction we're heading than the speed we're traveling at. The most important thing is to make sure we're always headed in the right direction :)

Thank y'all for all your love and support, I hope y'all have a simply wonderful and revelation-filled conference weekend!

Love, Elder Larsen

D&C 68:4