Pace 2:6








Hi, hello, good morning elders, good morning gentlemen! That is how one of our friends likes to start out all of his texts to us. Each one separated by a comma is a new message 🤣  good times! 


Well this week's been alright I guess. It snowed again!  My companion and I had fun with that since we are both from AZ BABY! Another thing with my comp is that both of his parents email him every night (what the heck mom/dad) anyways he was reading one of his emails and he was like "elder Pace guess what?!?!?! Byu clapped Gonzaga 110-84!!!" I was so excited until later that night he goes, "oops ☺it was the other way around🙄" 

We had transfer calls on Saturday and I am staying in Manhattan! My comp is staying too. I guess the Lord decided we needed to try again. Anywho you guys heard in the last email that it has been a struggle to find anybody who is really interested, but this week we had a half miracle! 

We met a guy named Andrew who is super interested. We had a phone call with him on Friday and then he showed up to church on Sunday. He showed up a little early so we had a lesson with him before church and it was so good, he was eating all the information up like polar bear after hibernation. Then he had to go home, but he came back to church at 12pm! After the service we had another lesson with him and he was still hungry🍽😋 he was like "seconds please" and we were like "eat up young cub!" Then later we were texting him and invited him to a baptism at 5pm. Unfortunately he couldn't make it but he really wanted to go and he texted us saying that when he learns a little more he would love to get baptized himself 😱 The reason this is a half miracle is because he is ysa (young single adult) age and we don't cover the ysa ward so a different set of missionaries are going to have to teach him😭 so we are back to having nobody truly interested in hearing our message. 

I will end with a spiritual thought. I have been reading along with the come follow me manual starting in January and I loved the thought that they had about the creation. This isn't word for word but what I liked is that God is a creator and we are his greatest creation. He created us in his image, but we have to realize that he is not done creating us. God is all knowing, that means he knows what pain, loss, and fear feel like. So how could we be created in his image unless we knew what pain and loss and fear feel like. When you are struggling, when you feel like you're not enough just remember that God is not done creating you in his image. 

Time for a quick pic sesh 
1. What missionaries look like Monday morning
2. A gimungous church!!! I look so tiny cute (he's so tiny, I can't even find him in the picture!)
3. Ashlyn coming in clutch with the yummies 
4. Growing my testimony
5. Eye see you 🤣 Eye'm so sorry you had to see that
6. Me when Elder Golightly told me Byu won
7. Me when I learned the truth

(PSYCH!...He sent the wrong picture and he is not in the gimungous church picture!)

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