Walking through Hell to get to Heaven 10-27-2025

People back home or wherever you are! What's upppp! I hope yall have had a good week and I hope yall know how much I love each and every single one of you! I know God loves you because I love you! Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1John 4:11 Boom! That's doctrine. This past week was beautiful, refining, discouraging, yet hopeful. Only in a fallen world can we feel such opposites projecting us either toward, or away from God. I am grateful to share how I have been propelled forward towards Heavens light. Monday night we had a meal with Bishop and afterwards we stopped by a refferal amd wow my man Stephen is Elect he is 36 From Ghana and he wanted to be baptized just straight up. He also said he'd make me some fufu. That was an awesome miracle Tueaday we had district council and it was awesome I always love district council. Afterwards we stopped by another refferal and he wanted to be baptized! The Lord has just blessing us and my companion was in constant sore amazement. Wednesday is a day I want to highlight.... I had the privilege to go on an exchange with and Elder who is 24 years old and it was sacred to me. This Elder has been out for 14 months and has struggled the whole time. He has been depressed, discouraged, homesick, hard in the heart and just has not had a very enjoyable mission. He is very talented very Gifted and has a wonderful testimony. He just struggled because he feels limited not being able to speak in his native tounge and he just doesn't like Americam culture. I took this as an opportunity to just minister to Him. We had a good time! We made some jokes, had some laughs, found a couple people, relayed stories to eachother and it was great. I remember specifically comp study we did it in front of a beautiful fall lake and I just felt the spirit so strong as I tried my hardest to pour into him and give him perspective of the Good he can do. I relayed to him that wherever his heart was his treasure was there also. His heart has been in Japan the whole time and it has made him miserable. My hope and prayer is he finds joy and i had at least somewhat of an impact on him. Thursday I had a new trainers and trainee meeting and it was awesome! I felt the spirit and learned some gold things. Later that evening for a youth night activity we had a campfire and they had us Elders share our why for coming on a mission. Staring into a fire pondering about my life was a dangerous move. I randomly just got depressed and was super somber out of nowhere like dang. Reflecting on my life like that was dangerous. It bled in a little bit to Friday... Friday we still worked hard saw some miracles in fact we had 3 lessons with our 3 most progressing friends. Bonnie Michael and Stephen from Ghana! Bonnie said she felt peace about her baptism. Michael felt encouraged to be baptized and read most all of the Book Of Mormon up to Moroni 2. Stephen had a church tour and felt the power and authority in it and committed to church on sunday and baptism!! Yet I was still in a somber mood for whatever reason. That night for accountability calls I asked the sisters for correction and was Bold with the fact they need to tell me what I can do better. They shared with me some very insightful things I wasn't expecting but really helped me out. One of them was just accepting the fact God has blessed me so much and give it back to Him. I was confused at first because I always expressed gratitude. I just let that though marinate and God took care of the rest.. Saturday morning I had a wonderful Personal Study and wow! I studied from the Teachings of President Nelson on Divine Identity. The power that comes from Knowing and accepting we are Sons and Daughters of God is crazy. Sometimes we have to revisit this fact because we have a constant whisper from the world and the adversary chipping away your Identity so its important to always remember and revisit! I was lead by the spirit and wrote down all the Gifts I have come to know that God has blessed me with and I was humbled. Knowing the gifts that God has given me and writing them down and continuing to discover them has allowed me to be more Bold and to magnify my talents even more so! It has brought me Joy and confidence in my Savior and in my covenants with Him! It has helped me greater to become who God needs me to become.The same applies to you! Sunday is when crap hit the fan. My dear friend Bonnie who's husband passed away 3 years ago, her kids don't honor her, who lives alone and loves the Gospel, was going to be baptized next week. I say was because Saturday night her son in Texas, the only kid of hers who has treated her good said that is she woke up sunday morning and still wanted to be baptized he and his wife would be on the next plan to fly over and stop her from being baptized. Bonnie was so sad her soul was crushed. She was in anguish and so were we. I remember praying and had a distinct impression and envisioned in my mind The Savior of the world suffering alone just for Bonnie. He would suffer 100 more time just for Bonnie and He'd do the same again and again for me and for you. Michael our other friend got vertigo and had the doctor's come visit him and he couldn't come to church. Stephen woke up sick and all heck broke loose. The miracle was that our members brought friend to church and referred them to us. Truly there is opposition in all things for better and for worse. God bless you all! Let God prevail in your lives and give your life to Him! I know that each of us are born to be great! While we might not have the same capacity of "greatness" as another person we each have the capacity to be great depending what we do with what we are given. It all goes back to the parable of the ten talents. I have a testimony of Heavenly Fathers plan for His Children. My life has in no wise been perfect, but Gods plan for me is perfect and I can live my life confidently knowing that as long as I desire so, Gods plan of Happiness will take effect in my life and He will lead me along the way! You never know what will happen in your life I mean like for real. You could move to Arkansas halfway through Junior year and your life just might change. You could serve a 2 year mission in the Washington D.C South mission and change in ways only God knows. Heck you could even have people placed in your paths just for you, or Just for them. Whatever it is God has in store for you.... It was always be far greater than you could imagine. Will you let God cast His Vision for you in your life? Will you have the faith to go and do and fail to prevail? These are all questions we must ask ourselves if we want to see Gods perfect plan unfold in our lives. 2nd Nephi 9 Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever! O how great the plan of our God! I love you all please reach out I enjoy hearing from all of you! (Stay sweet)Elder Williams