Elder Nathan William Allen: The Faith to Find

Hello,

I included some pictures from the last few weeks since I haven't been able to connect my camera the past few weeks.

Well, this week I will be brief, but there were a few highlights of the week that I want to share about. One was our Mission tour with Elder Evans, who traveled around all of Malaysia and Singapore this week, starting with Singapore. We gathered as a Singapore zone on Tuesday, and he shared with us about the process of calling a new stake president, something that they did last Sunday. We learned about how to set better goals as we focused on being more specific and more realistic. He talked about the vision he, and other church leaders had for the future - looking forward to the day when Singapore will have two stakes instead of one.

This week we were also able to meet with our ward leaders (including our ward mission leader) and talk about the ways we want to strengthen the members, and work through them to do missionary work. We identified English class as something that we want to focus on, and we will be inviting our members to invite their friends to attend our English class, which has been doing really well the past few weeks.

This week, I read the first part of Helaman, and I was impressed as I always am with the prophet Nephi (the brother of Lehi). They preach the gospel to the Lamanites after having given up on half of their lands due to a war that happened between the Nephites and the Lamanites. Nephi and Lehi convert so many people that the Lamanites give the Nephites their lands back and quickly become the most righteous people in the land. Later, Nephi is comforted by the Lord, and is given power to seal things on earth and in heaven because the Lord knows that Nephi will not ask for anything that is wrong. To me, I learn that selfless sacrifice brings blessings and power from the Lord.

Where we live (on the 3rd floor though)