I'm back in the Valley!

This week has been pretty good. It's not feeling too hot in the valley yet. It feels pretty good actually. Almost exactly like the mountains right now. Elder Kaufusi is good. He's a poly and wants me to gain as much weight as I can while I'm with him. I've already gained 7 pounds in this first week. This guy is just constantly eating. He is really good though. We get along. He is from Tonga and has lived in he US for about 5 years. Salt Lake City. 

The area is still the same as I remember it. The members are all super nice and even nicer because my comp. for some reason people just love Polynesians. Hey are so lucky. White boys work their butts off and nothing happens and then a poly comes around and they are like "Ooo, want to come in and talk". It's so dumb how much people love them for no reason haha. It's alright though because I'm his comp. 

So we had a Stake Conference yesterday and it was really good. Our Stake President talked about a meeting he went to with tall the Stake Presidents in AZ. There were some apostles there and they opened it up to a Q and A. Well our Stake President had a question that had been on his mind for a couple of months that he thought he would ask. He asked Elder Ballard and Elder Rasband "Our Stake has 3200 members and 2500 are less active, for the past seven years I've been Stake President we have had President Monsons invitation to rescue on the forefront of our minds and there seems to be not real change. What can we do differently?" They had him turn to a scripture and read it. It was 3 Nephi 18:32 "Nevertheless, ye shall not cast him out of your synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such shall ye continue to minister; for ye know not but what they will return and repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I shall heal them; and ye shall be the means of bringing salvation unto them." Wow what a powerful scripture. The apostles and a couple of general authorities told them to just keep ministering. Not matter what, not matter how hard it seems. 

At first when I got the call to get transferred down here I was pretty mad. This was my least favorite area. I felt like I worked my butt off last time I was here and didn't see any of my work pay off. I thought it was almost worthless down here. But as I've come back and listened to the talk I've had a new out look. I wanted to see my work pay off. I wanted to see others lives change and become better. But it doesn't really matter. We are here to minister. A lot of times in life we are not going to see the success of our work. We might not see the lives we've touched. We might not see if we got our children on the right path. We might not even see if our work is paying off in our own lives but sooner or later we will see he fruits of our labors. The atonement works if we are using it. Whether we see it or not. I'm so grateful to be ministering as a full time servant of the Lord. I hope all of you stay on the straight and narrow path and minister no matter what, even when you can't see he success behind the work. 

Y Nation (Were pretty sure Elder Lange wore this sweatshirt in honor of BYU beating the #1 team in the nation; Gonzaga this week!)