November 13,2017 The Weekly

This week flew by! The mission is still just as awesome as last week. We had a zone conference this last week and got introduced to the churches Christmas program #lighttheworld. This year it is the same as last year with new ideas of how to light the world each day with a video that follows. Hope that everyone takes the challenge to do something every day to help others. It blesses so many lives and brings so many miricals. From light the world most missionaries get tons of new referals. Last year 30,000 referals came through the light the world program. It is an awesome way to do missionary work every day.

This week I got bed bugs! I started noticing bites on my legs and decited to get it checked out. We sprayed for bed bugs and so they shouldn't be a problem any more.... I hope. We taught a few lessons this week to some investigators. One of the guys we teach named Harry was excited to see us but he is a little crazy. He talked about how there is a bunch of surf gangs out to get him and his family. He said that the whole area that he is living in is evil and everyone that lives there is trying to bring him away from Christ. It brings to my mind the question of why he is still living there if what he is saying is true. He is a little crazy though so it might all be part of his imagination. Haha. Torry is progressing and is growing closer to Christ every day. We have stake conference on Dec 3rd which is his baptism date so hopefully we are still able to do it on that day and we don't have to push it back even further. 

Something that I did this week which really has helped me to come closer and become more like christ is by making a list of Christ like atributes. Then I pick ushally one a week that I personally want to work on to improve my week. Every morning and night when I pray I ask for help with the Christ like attribute. It has brought many blessings and has helped me to feel the spirit so much stronger in my daily life. 

A passage from a book that is quoting some other book that I really liked was "Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation" Ecclesiasticus 2:4-5. I think this quote is applicable to all of us in so many ways. We will all face trials and tribulations that we will need to be humble and patient as we submit ourselves to the lord to help and guide us. Gold is something precious which can represent all of us. We are all precious in the sight of God and as we are put in the furnace (face trials and tribulations), as we humble ourself and let that fire burn through us and purify us we can become something amazing. There is a mormon message called the refiners fire which talks about this in a similar way. Through our trials that we all face, we need to humble ourselves like the people that Alma teaches in Alma 32 that get kicked out of their places of worship by the rich and prideful. As they humble themselves and repent and submit themselves to the will of the lord they are blessed. I know that we can all become more like Christ as we humble ourselves and submit ourselves to the will of the lord. Let the lord be the blacksmith in our lives and through him be made pure!

I love all of you and will try to take more pictures next week. For all of you who want my address, it is 1100 Seagate ave. Apt. 220 Neptune Beach, Fl 32266. Have an amazing week full of love and full of Jesus Christ!

Elder Elgaaen & Karl



Elder Elgaaen

Trying to spell elder with fire. 
Didn't really work.

Mission Zone Conference

Jacksonville East Zone
Back row: Zone Leader Blanchard, Elders-Elgaaen, Karl, Smart Yentes Saxton, District Leader Burg, Elder Redford
Front row: Sister Training Leaders Thomas & Williams, Sisters Karper, Bedwell, Pres & Sister Lee, Sister Roberts, Yingling, Meyers, and Conger