Priesthood Power

No need to start off with a cheesy one-liner, we will just cut to the good part:

Some interesting things happened this week, and we had some fun times! The missionary work is good and we are finding a lot of people that seem SO GOOD when we first meet them, but then they just stop answering their phone and kinda fizzle away... Things are good though! We have a dad and his son who are preparing to be baptized in probably two or three weeks, and other than that just trying to help our other investigators feel the spirit more abundantly in their life and find some new ballers!!

This week I had the chance to go on an exchange to Kien Svay with Elder Shurtz and it was a really fun experience! We tracked down a potential investigator, and there was a string of miracles that happened so that we could help this young man learn about the gospel and learn to pray to his Father in Heaven. We were searching for his house, then followed a member to this random neighborhood and asked around to try to find this guy, and just as we were about to turn back we found him! His mom had cool story about her conversion that I will just have to share with you will I get home. This is a gospel of miracles! 

At the beginning of the transfer, we set a goal to have 100 members attend church and we were gonna try to do whatever we could to strengthen this ward! Well, last week we ended up getting 99 there! Come on man! If only one more person brought a random nephew or something we could have done it! Looks like we just have to work a little bit harder these next couple of weeks. 

We also had a business meeting this week with a guy who owns a nonprofit organization that we thought had the interest to learn about the gospel, but instead, our discussion just turned into a meeting where he tried to instruct us on how we should be doing our missionary work. He had good intentions, 

but at the end of the day, he didn't realize that we are just two 19 year old, blonde kids from Utah that graduated high school last year trying to do our best. The Lord really does make weak servants into wonderful tools in his hands.

Other things:

• For some reason, we got put in charge of the primary program? Teaching primary kids how to sing in English when I can't even hit a note myself, may not be the smartest idea I have ever heard

• We attend some random red carpet event at a burger restaurant worse than McD's

• We went to a buffet for a youth activity! YUP!

Lots and lot of stories, but for now I will just leave it at that. The work is good and we love serving the Lord every single day! I had the chance to participate in 6 Priesthood blessings this week, which was pretty awesome. More than any time in my life have I realized the importance and power of the Priesthood. It truly is God's power and authority on the earth, and through faith in this special power, 

we can work miracles! Thank God for the Priesthood. Without this special power, we would lack the opportunity of Salvation. How great and merciful is our God.

Well, that is all I have for the week. I invite everyone to go read the talk, The Blueprint of Christ's Church by President Callister because you are about to get mind blown!

Love,

Elder Gochnour

ALSO, GO DUKE!!!!!!! RIP KENTUCKY! BLUE DEVIL NATION REPPING! 

And tough loss for the titans, but I am proud of the boys for leaving it all out on the field! TTTE!