Hey family and friends!!
This week has been amazing!! We were able to have David Butler speak to our mission over zoom!
(Not going to lie, I may have started crying when president Guthrie announced he would be speaking to us! I love David Butler!)
David Butler is an institute teacher at UVU who does a weekly video on YouTube called Don't miss this, that follows along with the come follow me! If you haven't seen then.... go watch them! 
He shared the stories of Moses.
God comes to Moses as an "80 year old man who is retired." And tells him that he needs him to save his people... oh and grab that stick. You may need it.
Of all the people to choose for this task, god choose Moses. How often do we think we are unqualified for the tasks we are asked to perform. Take Joseph Smith for example. He was a 14 year old farmer boy who was chosen to restore the church on the earth! He didn't even have an education! Or how about Mormon... a 16 year old boy asked to lead an army to battle!
There are so many examples of ordinary people who perform the extraordinary through God.
What about missionary work. God sends out 19 year old's to bring people unto him. However old 19 might sound to you, we are just kids! Why do people open up their doors to us and listen? Why do they give up smoking and coffee just because this teenager is telling them to. They come to church, read from a book they have often never opened before in their life, they pray to a being they cannot see, and they do it just because we ask them to. Missionary work is WIERD! Yet every day people are coming closer to Christ and being baptized into this church. Why!!! Its because this isn't our work, its gods work!!
God works through the normal people and he performs miracles with their meager efforts. Like The brother of Jared who carves out a few stones and lays them before the Lord asking him to make them glow. We can all make stones, but only god can make them glow. We can all knock on doors, make phone calls, bike for miles, teach all the principles of the gospel. But only god can ignite that fire inside of those we meet and help them have an everlasting desire to come unto him.
When Moses lead the people to the edge of the red sea, what do you think those people were thinking? If you could take a picture of that situation, what would you title it? The Israelites are waiting at the waters edge as the Egyptians March to destroy them.
Would you title it disaster? Mistake? Chaos?
God would call it: The Edge of a Miracle
Moses, through the power of god, parted the red sea for the people to walk through. Could you imagine that!!!
Here we are, stuck in our homes. If you could take a picture of this situation what would you title it? Disaster, pandemic, hopelessness?
God would call it: The Edge of a Miracle.
How is god working miracles in your life?
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| Lunch |
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| Riding our Bikes |
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| Thumbs up |
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| Sister Elgaaen & Allen kissy faces |
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| Sister Elgaaen & Allen Bike lifting? |
Those are just a few things that David Butler shared with us (obviously I added my own little twist). I know that god can use you as an instrument in his hands. An instrument is beautiful, but it takes the touch of the masters hands to let the music stream across the land.
Let the lord begin to work through you to touch the lives of those around you! He will work miracles through you, if you let him.
I love you all!! Have a wonderful week! 
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