Week 50, Rolling Hills- My First Week in Kansas



Hola!
It's been a while but that's okay I'm here now. So, I got to Kansas and its flat and windy. I got my new companions and there are four of us who are all one companionship! We all live together and have had a great time so far teaching and finding and playing card games and doing puzzles and stuff. It's slow going with coronavirus but that's also okay.

My companions are Elders Jensen, Stevenson, and Seastrand. E Seastrand is also a reassigned missionary. He came from Mexico. They are awesome.

My new area is Rolling Hills in Wichita Kansas, but it will be renamed soon because the ward here is dissolving so I'll let you know what happens with that.

As I've been here for these 5 days I have been able to see the Lords hand in coronavirus better than ever before. After all, it is under his power and control. I have been able to see how the virus has changed the way that mission work is done. It has drastically improved the way that we find people and enabled us to use technology to its fullest. I'm starting to see that the Lords hand really moves over the Earth in these latter days for the gathering of Israel and the salvation of all his children. I know that he loves us all and I know that this truth and his gospel will go to every nation tongue and people until it fills the whole Earth and the work will never cease until Christ himself shall declare It is finished. That is my fervent testimony to all on this Earth in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Adios guys!
-Elder Walbom

This is the Spot where two Rivers converge and there is a statue which I do not have a pic of called the keeper of the plains. It is a wonderful monument to the Indians who came before us on this continent and a remarkable celebration of the beauty of inner America.


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