Happy Easter!

Dear Family and Friends,

This past week has been totally awesome and I can't wait to tell y'all about it!

Monday we had dinner with our ward mission leader and his family which was fun :) After that we did some tracting and ran into a crazy lady. We also talked with another lady who was really nice and gave us some banana bread :)

Tuesday we did a lot of biking and little bit of tracting. We had an appointment with a less-active in the afternoon but we got there and she wasn't there. So we called her and she let us know she was running 30 minutes late. We walked around the apartment complex and ran into a guy named Justin. He's a cool guy and first person who let us watch the Prince of Peace video with him. #Miracle After we watched that and discussed it with him, he showed us part of this other video about some "sleeping prophet" from the 1900s which was slightly creepy and weird. But we got his phone number and he said we could come back whenever. After dinner, we visited some members and watched the Easter video with them and gave them pass-along cards to give to their friends.

Wednesday I had a sore throat which made biking in the wind and talking with people a challenge but the Lord helped me out so much. In the morning we went to the walmart parking lot for a little bit and offered to serve people by taking their shopping carts and putting them away for them. Most of those we helped accepted a card for the Prince of Peace video so that was cool :) After lunch, we dropped some pass-along cards off with some members, tried to visit some potential investigators, and got to watch the Easter video with a couple of them which was really neat. We also found a LA/PM family that's not on the records so #Miracle After dinner we went out teaching with a member and the first person we tried either wasn't home or they ignored us. So we decided to try a potential who lived down the street one last time. Her name is Jennifer and when she answered the door she said, "Hey guys, do you want to come in?" and we were like, "Yes please!". So we went in and sat down and started talking with her. She opened up about how she's hit rock bottom and that she's trying to get right with God again. Apparently she saw us a couple weeks ago riding our bikes in the middle of nowhere and said to herself, "The next time those guys come by I'm going to let them in." It was such an awesome and spiritual lesson! The member connected well with her and bore testimony about his own conversion and mission experience. It was probably the best lesson I've had so far here in Yukon, definitely a tender mercy :)

Thursday we did our planning and in the afternoon we did a lot of biking and giving #PRINCEofPEACE cards to members. We talked to quite a few people, knocked on some doors, and picked up some potentials. Solid Thursday!

Friday we had district meeting which was fun. President Mansell showed up randomly :) (I'm not a district leader anymore and it's been nice to not have as much stress :)) After that we went on splits in Yukon with Elders Fulmer and Burton who are serving out in Clinton. It was so much fun! Lots of stuff fell through for me and Elder Burton but Elder May and Fulmer found some new investigators so that was awesome :)

Saturday morning we finished splits, tried some potentials in the afternoon and did some service for Tim. After service, we went to the park in Yukon to try and talk to some people. There were some teenagers playing basketball so we went up to them and asked if we could play with them and were happy to let us join. Cool miracle: When we first walked up, they were all walking around looking at the ground trying to find a mini gold cross that fell off one of their necklaces. The guy who lost the cross is named Tray. We talked with him a little bit and I felt impressed to offer to say a prayer to help find the cross (at this point they were about to give up looking since it fell in the grass by the court). Tray is super chill and so he was happy to pray with us. A couple minutes after the prayer, Tray spotted his cross in the grass #Miracle It was a really cool experience :) Never underestimate the power of prayer! So we balled it up with them, I scored the winning 3 point shot ;), and Tray gave us his phone number so we could meet up with him again. After dinner our 7:00 fell through but at 8 we visited a PM couple which was good :)

Sunday was good, we had our usual eternigators at church. Some members fed us lunch after church and then we went to go meet with Justin and his brother, Freddie, but they weren't there :( So we tracted and found a sweet potential! After dinner we had a couple recent convert lessons. Fun Sunday :)

My favorite Easter scripture in the Book of Mormon about the resurrection is Mosiah 16:7-9

"7 And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.
8 But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.
9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death."

Easter is probably my favorite holiday :) Apostles have called it the most holy day of year. The hope, peace, and rejoicing that come from Christ's victory over death and sin is indescribable. I was thinking the other day though, "Why do I not celebrate the resurrection every day? Why not celebrate Easter every day of the year? It's the greatest victory that's ever been one and it changes my life in more ways than I can count" So I've decided to try and do a better job of remembering Christ and his resurrection every day. I know that as we look unto Christ in every thought, (D&C 6:36) however hard it may be, we can always have peace in our hearts. He truly is the Prince of Peace!

Thank y'all so much for your love and support! And thanks for the Easter package mom! Happy Easter!

Love, Elder Larsen

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

P.S. Our mission office has moved to Edmond and so here is the new address if you ever want to send me anything.

Oklahoma Oklahoma Mission office
1967 W 33rd Street #100
Edmond, Oklahoma 73013

My current address here in Yukon is:
1006 Summerton Place
Yukon, OK 73099

1. Selfie SWAG while biking :)

2. A wild turkey chilling on some guy's truck in the middle of Yukon