Letter Sent on May 6, 2013

Dear Family

Things still are going great here in the blessed land of Teuk Thla! And what a blessed land it is!
I had the opportunity to go on an exchange with Elder Lyman and we had a great day exchanging my area.  Our focus was to try, in faith, to feel the love of God for each person we taught and obedience.  It was a great exchange and we had a cool little miracle happen, our morning plans fell through and so we went contacting and I was trying to follow the Spirit on where we should go to contact and we contacted a couple of people that really didn't respond much at all to us and didn't have much of an interest at all..but we were trying to go where we felt we should and we went by some guys shoveling a big pile of sand and putting it in the back of a truck and we asked if we could help and the two sweaty guys were happy to take a little break and let us help. Afterwards we talked to the guys and the guy I was talking to is married and has one kid. He had an interest in learning English and said that we could come back to his house and he is free at night time we set an appointment with him and it's a potential family! It strengthened my testimony of being patient and how sometimes when we follow the promptings of the Spirit we don't see all of the blessings right away or understand why but the Lord knows what He is doing and where He needs us. Elder Lyman is doing great; he knows a lot about missionary work and just really is full of love and has his head screwed on straight.  He's doing super good President. We committed him to try to have prayer in heart for love of God before each lesson and to pray for those taught and for charity at night for this week.
While Elder Fisher was on the exchange he was going down the street and this guy just pulled up next to him and asked him where our church is and if he could learn! He said that he has some family issues and that he really wants to learn and he came to church on Sunday and brought a couple of his friends with him to learn as well! We are going to be meeting with them on Wednesday.
The Lord is leading us to those whom He has prepared for the Gospel or he will lead them to us! We are so blessed!

I have been really thinking a lot about this scripture in D&C 88:63 "Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask, and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you" This is something I know was brought up in conference and I love this scripture.  I have really felt closer to the Savior and so happy this past week as I have been trying to do the "little things" and to try and find ways to be better and more obedient. I know that this scripture is true and that as we seek Him we come to find that He is right here helping us and has been the whole time! I hope that we will all seek to draw near unto Him and seek Him this next week! Sometimes all it takes is the faith to ask for things! I love you all so much and I am stoked to talk to you next week! Have a terrific week!

Love,

Elder Garlick