Hello! It rained a TON

Hey fam!

This week was excellent! It rained a TON and this part of the world is beginning to turn really, really green :) if Montana was like this year round I could totally live here. We have been on bikes a lot as well and it has been awesome to see people all out and about because it's finally summer here.  We were on a "Diet" this month to get rid of the extra weight we packed on last winter and I ended up getting rid of about 15 lbs. So I am satisfied and ready to start eating all the candy I have saved in our kitchen for the last 30 days :)

We have been spending lots of time making sure the needs of all of our recent converts are met. They are all progressing really well in the Gospel and all have callings and great friends in the Church.  They all have unique blessings they get to experience now that they have made and are honoring the covenant of baptism with God. Yesterday we had dinner at the home of the family that was baptized and they told us a really amazing story.  They were talking about tithing and how they had just paid it for the third time this last week as members of the Church. They said they had heard many different stories of blessings that come from paying tithing but had not experienced one personally yet. She recently had a baby and there were some complications so she was in the hospital for a while and they had a balance of just over $10,000.00 still due. They said they went online last week to check the total due on the bill and were shocked to find that the bill had been paid for in full. He said he had a printed statement from a week prior that had the amount written on it so he called to find out what happened and they said the have no idea but the balance is paid. I believe this is one of those tender mercies promised by the Lord when he tells us about the blessings that come from paying tithing. I love the actual scripture, "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Malachi 3:10. They said immediately when they learned of the debt being paid their minds were turned to this promise and they knew it was given to them because they had paid their tithing.

I am so grateful to know that God truly does communicate with us!  I know He answers prayers and that when we obey His commandments we really do receive so many blessings that there is not room enough to receive them.
 

Transfers are next week and I really hope I get to stay!  Things are going great and I love being companions with Elder Bishop.

I hope you all have a fantastic week and that we may all remember those that sacrificed so much so we can be independent here in America. 

Love,

Elder Holland