October 27, 2015
Sorry, no post this week.  Letter was very short and personal to Justin's parents.  He is doing great, though.

October 19, 2015

Hey Guys. 

Didn't get transferred, didn't get my bike, did baptize April. It went super well. Elder A baptized her and I confirmed her in church. She feels so good. Its great. I'm going to forward an email with a couple pictures. April has better ones so when we get those from her I'll send them. 

So yeah me and Elder A are still here another transfer. Which is probably for the best because we are getting pretty busy and it would be good to keep the guy who knows the area pretty well. This is Elder Anderson's fourth transfer in this area.

We bought a cantaloupe the other day because i was craving fruit right? We haven't been able to eat it because we have no saran wrap. So I've been staring at this cantaloupe all week and I want it really bad, and it's made me sad. :(

So at the baptism this pretty old Hispanic lady in our ward comes up to us and says "Ohhh elders I'm so happy for you! I've been thinking a lot about you lately and i want you to come over and watch this video." So we're like "Well what's the video..." "Don''t worry about just come over and see it." Long story short we came over and she sat us down and made us watch a 40 minute add on QVC about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWV_BWchoI 

She's like "you're so young!! you should have hair!!" "Don't worry my dad and my grandpa are bald I'm ok with it" "Ohhhh you can all share it then!!! It's only 5 easy payments of 78.95! QVC sells goood products." She forced it on me haha. She even gave me the cd she taped the commercial on and wants me to send it to you haha. I probably will. It might be funny if you actually got it for like my homecoming present or something. 

I don't necessarily feel different, but I feel I don't know, purposeful I guess?

Anyway, thanks again for all the support. As for a scripture, Alma 32:27. Is that too long? That one is kind of summing up my whole experience so far. Let me know.

Love you guys!

Elder Sherwood

 

 

Note from Shawgo family on 10/16/2015:

Had dinner with these awesome elders tonight. They are happy and healthy! Thanks for sharing them with us.

October 13, 2015
Things are pretty good. It has been really hot but but I've promised myself that I'm not going to complain because I've really been spoiled. I got grandma's stuff.  It was in the box of stuff you sent me. I'm running out of time today so if i don't get a chance, can you let them know I appreciate it.

April is getting baptized this weekend!! I'm so excited for her. It has really been awesome watching her grow her faith and see how the gospel has already blessed her life. Something I have come to learn is that the Gospel is a Gospel of action. We have to take action to build our faith. We have to read the Book of Mormon, We have to pray to know that it is true. We have to know how to sincerely pray to know that it is true. There was a quote from conference about about faith. 'Faith and doubt cannot exist together" Full conversion comes from having faith in all of the areas of our church. Faith in Jesus Christ, Faith in his atonement, faith in the Book of Mormon, faith in Joseph Smith, and faith in our current prophet. If we develop true faith in these things then doubt literally cannot exist. If you have doubts then you need to study it and then ask God if it is right. The power of prayer is really the center to developing our faith. Take action. Learn for yourself.

Made these yesterday.  Mine is the one on the left, Elder A's is the one on the right. Oh, and I probably won't get transferred but we think elder Anderson will.

 

Justin thinks his helmet looks ridiculous.  

October 5
HI Mom, things are great! April is still going strong and her daughter's name is Aleadra and she is 11. She also has a 1 year old named Anastasia. We had a super cool experience with them this morning, Aleadra's dad was there and April wanted us to pray with them. So we got to know him and taught him how to pray and he says he wants to move back to Carlsbad and spend more time with Aleadra. So we had him say a simple prayer and we left him and April to talk. April just walked in and told us that he wants to go to church. So this morning was pretty awesome. Conference was pretty good. I thought that the fact that I was excited about it would help me actually stay awake. It didn't. April even came for a session and I couldn't stay awake. I liked President Monson's talk. He also gave a super good one at the priesthood session. I really liked elder Bednar's and the ponderizing one, and I like the 3 new apostles especially the one that was a bishop. .

I really appreciate all the support I've been given. A lot of missionaries don't get the kind of support that you and everyone have been sending me, so I want you to know that it means a lot to me.

I'm doing great. I've never felt so sure about God or this religion in my life.

Love and miss you guys.

Elder Sherwood