His Grace and Diligence 4-14-2025

Wow what a week this past week has been. As I have reflected more on my savior Jesus Christ and came to worship him leading up to this Easter season I have felt so much peace and Joy amidst all of the pain and sorrow. Tuesday was our last district council for the transfer and it was so powerful everyone came together and bore testimony of The spirit and why they baptize and I felt God's love. That night transfer boards were going to drop and I was so stressed out and anxious for no reason whatsoever and when they dropped I saw that I am staying in the same area with my companion and district leading a large district with some of the best missionaries and I just felt peace wash over me and the spirit confirmed that this is right and God gave me his errand. Wednesday I took it to heart and I felt the fire and the desire to reconsencrate myself daily to the lord and focus on him in all that I do as I once did. If I could describe last transfer I'd describe it as fun but also really hard. If I could use a scripture I'd use John 15.....Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.(refiners fire/humility/repentance) 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. I found my errand and the spirit gave me my purpose and that was to continue in faith and repentance relying only on the merits of Christ's saving grace using the gifts he has given me to bless and lift his children in love and lifting them where they stand. I have strived to claim diligence once again on his name. Thursday was transfer day and we helped some members move and he gave us some cool stuff and fed us good street tacos it was awesome! We immediately got back hitting the ground running in all diligence and gosh Satan is a kicker I have been facing so much opposition and that day especially he tried everything to stop me and it was hard but through the Lords help we found. We continued to bike hard and something I took to heart and applied to my life was truly crying unto the lord in all my doings. Every bike ride down south in our area for 15 minutes I'd just pray and cry unto the lord in my heart and I feel so much peace and love and it gets me going each day. That same day president MacPherson sent me an email replying to my previous weekly which was positive and he replied which he has never done my whole mission and he said "Welcome back! I am grateful you can see the worth that I have always seen in you. From the very first moment you stepped off the plane, I knew God sent you to our mission because we needed you. I love you- President McPherson That email was a testimant that God hears me because I have been quietly in the trenches being refined and stripped and tried. All I can say is he lives. Friday we had an amazing leadership meeting and I knew my purpose for me this transfer and for my district. I felt God's love and that to me is a miracle. He has revealed to me his vision for this transfer and I am set on it. Never have I seen Satan work so hard on my life and he knows my worth and he knows what I am able to do through Christ and I can say the same to whoever reads this email. Don't let him be the destroyer of your peace but instead turn to the prince of peace who is mighty to save. We had our baptismal interview for our friend to get baptized this Sunday and he passed it was so beautiful. I absolutely love my district there are seven of us and we are already so unified in purpose and God's plan is laid out before me. All I can say is God's plan. Saturday was a kicker we continued to work in all diligence but a highlight was a baptismal service we attended for a family in our ward. 2 kids flew down from France to get baptized with one of our ward members kids and all three of them got baptized and we attended and it was such an incredible spiritual experience to see these three pure children get baptized together and make covenants with their savior Jesus Christ to be bound to their family's in the eternities. You can see why Satan works so hard against us and the people we teach. I later had a zone leadership meetings and wow I am so pumped for what is to come I have already seen so many amazing miracles amidst the struggle and I am ready to let God prevail in my life and in this mission. Our mission went from an all time high of 36 baptisms in a single month to hitting 61 in the month of February and wow what a miracle an absolute all time high ever. Since then we had a goal for 63 and we only managed 34 and the bells of hell have been ringing across the mission and everyone including me is just ready to let God prevail. Sunday we had a baptism right after Church but our friend caught the flu overnight and we had to move it. Talk about opposition happens everytime. We went to church that day with 0 friends coming our whole teaching pool fell off Saturday it was tough but that doesn't stop God. God is a God of miracles. It was fast and testimony meeting and wow it was powerful I went up their to bear testimony and felt God's love. About 10 minutes later I see a younb girl I don't recognize go up there and bear testimony and I realize she is not a member and it was a super powerful sweet testimony. One of our youth brought a friend to church!!! It was such a miracle. That night we had a fireside and she came again and we got to know her and she watched conference too! All I will say is God has a plan and will produce miracles and he hears and answers our prayers. Amidst all opposition even ones unmentioned in other missionaries areas and personal lives who I have stewardship over God prevails! There is so much I could talk about between the area, my companion, the people we are teaching, the members and many other stuff but what the real message is that he lives and he lives for you. What he wants is for all of us to live and abide in him and come unto him so that his Joy may be full in us. Doctorine and Covenants 18 11 For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh; wherefore he suffered the pain of all men, that all men might repent and come unto him. 12 And he hath risen again from the dead, that he might bring all men unto him, on conditions of repentance. 13 And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth! May we all come unto him daily in remembrance of his atoning sacrifice and resurrection that he may carry our burdens that he has already taken upon himself in the Garden of Gethsemane that we may be yoked to him in daily Thanksgiving and supplication to our souls that we may grow In the meekness of his spirit and that when he appears, we shall be like him. I love you all, feel free to reach out and if any of you have ties you don't want I'm running low "Stay Sweet"-Elder Williams