Follow the Spirit! Elder Jared Rasmussen

We had another amazing week! Lots of spiritual stuff and tons of Japanese!

On Sunday we focused on the Book of Mormon! The sacrament meeting talks were focused on the Book of Mormon, the Elder's Quorum lesson, the Go and Do, and my personal study! The Book of Mormon is an amazing book! It teaches about Jesus Christ and about His love for you! I know that it came forth by the power of God!

The Sisters in my district sang a special musical number in Sacrament Meeting! They sang "Nearer my God to Thee" and Sister Cosman played the Piano with them! It was so amazing and they helped bring the spirit to the meeting!

I made 4 snow angels! It snowed a couple inches and everytime I would walk past a certain spot I would jump in the snow and make another one! I love the Earth, it is such a beautiful planet, I love the mountains and the snow. I've actually enjoyed the weather quite a bit!

Elder D. Todd Christofferson came on Tuesday and spoke to the MTC! He spoke about repentance, I love how he said we don't just need to turn away from sin, we need to turn to the savior! We need to fill the void of the things we've stopped doing by doing the things that Jesus did! We need to have an increase of love and a desire to serve and do what He did! We had a district review afterward and my amazing district shared their thoughts and impressions! I have as many notes over what they said as I did about what Elder Christofferson said! I'm so blessed to be with them!

A link to my mission photo album!

Thank you all!
Elder Jared Rasmussen 

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