Hello and Namaste to Everybody

Its a great day to go swimming here but we cant go swimming.

I hope y'all had a great week. Life is exciting and filled with things that amazes you all the time.My weeks are always like that.We think and plan do so many things in a week but some day we end up doing way different things than our plans. Missionary work is like that most of the time you end up doing things that were not planned by us but planned by God.

This week was a great week of service for us , we did a lot of service and i can still see the marks of service in my hands.

This last week i came to know that i can paint. When ever i took a colors and brush to paint i always thought i can never be a painter but this last week we went and did service and our service to paint a room.And we did pretty good job.I loved painting that room and than i thought even though i cant paint painting i guess i can paint walls.I was truly grateful that God let me knew that i can still paint.My hands still have tiny dot of paint on it and every time i see it i say to myself "I can Paint"!!!!!!!!!!!

I am grateful for these opportunities that God has provided us.There is no greater joy than joy you have when you are in service of your neighbor.

I hope and pray that y'all also have opportunity to serve others.I pray for you and remember you.I hope you have a great week ahead.

Lots Of LOve 

ELder Shrestha

p.s here are some pic when we went for mountain biking!!!!

 Dear family and Friends and Brothers and Sisters

How are u?? I hope and pray that y'all have a great time.
So this is the beginning of my last transfer on my mission and it last for 6 weeks. Oh my goodness i cant believe its happening.
I am still in my area right now and i am still with my companion.So Maple Grove is gonna be the area where i will end my mission.
As i am coming close to the end i have been pondering lots of things that i have learned in my mission.I am reflecting upon the tender mercies that Heavenly father has show us and i can see and feel that i have been tremendously blessed in my mission.Most importantly it has changed me in a good way.I will always remember these things for the rest of my life.
Our work in this area been good. Its been super tough to find people to teach in this area.Everybody here in super Lutheran or Catholic.But we are working hard everyday to find somebody.We do have our ups and down but its ok coz its the way it suppose to be.These ups and down has given us so many experiences that we can apply for the rest of our life.
So we had super fun this week. We were at a place dropping by our investigator to see if they are home and they were not.So as we were going out we saw these African kids playing basket ball so we thought hmmmm lets go play some ball with them. So we went to them and said y'all wanna play a game with us?? and they looked at us probably thinking 2 guys in white shirt and black pants wants to play basket ball with us.They must also thought that they will beat us in a min.
So we played a game with them and we destroyed them. hahaha it was so funny.It was a good game. Those kids can play super good.
The Gospel is true and whosoever will live the gospel it is gonna be a great blessings in there life.I have seen that blessing in many peoples life in my mission.Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and its for us.We can be healed through our savior.I love you all and i am eternally grateful for your kindness and love.It means a lot to me.You guys are my family and have been great example to me. Thank u.
Much love
Elder Shrestha

Hello and Namaste 

How are you???I hope everything is going good, great and awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

​You probably are thinking what in the earth he is doing????????

So last Friday we got free dinner at Chick fill A because we dressed like a cow.It was cow appreciation day.So the member we were staying did it first and we asked them how did it go and they said it was awesome there are so many people dressed up like cow for free dinner.So they told us that we can use the costume they have and get a free dinner. We said sure and dressed up like that and got free meal at Chick fill A.It was the funniest thing i have done in my mission.That was the highlight of my week.

We also had a parade in our area that we went to. It was great. I liked it. There were so many people for that.SO went there and we tried to talk with couple of people and some thought we are Jehovah Witnesses.We talked with good number of people there.Our work is also going so great here.We are doing service almost everyday.

Saturday we went to help some investigator pull some weed from her yard and she had huge yard.She feed us breakfast and lunch. She was really kind lady.She also had tenant from India and we were able to talk with him. I was able to talk Hindi with him and he was happy so he gave us bunch of snacks from India. It was great.We also invited him to church and he came to church.We also met another family from India and again i spake in Hindi with them too and he was super happy and invited us for dinner.

I was super happy that i could speak Hindi with so many people. 

Life is still super good in mission and i am trying to stay focused in my work.There is so much to do still but time is going fast.

I love y'all and keep up the good work. Y'all are awesome.Love ya

Elder Shrestha

Hey

How is everybody??? Hope y'all are doing great.

We are doing great too. I forget to tell you in my last email HAPPY 4TH OF JULY.It was a great day for all of us coz that day was our p-day. So our day started with doing some awesome service for a less active sister in the ward.

So her basement got flooded and we had tear down all her walls and everything from that basement.So it was so awesome destroying somebody's house and have fun while destroying it.I was also able to punch a hole in the wall.It was great.

So we found out there is a Hindu temple in Maple Grove so we went and tour that temple too. We are a big temple. So i was kinda of tour guide to other missionaries and telling them whats going on there.

So on 4th i wanted see the firework but i couldn't coz we have be inside our house by 9:30 and and firework didnt start till 10:00. So we are living with a member family right now and there son who is back home for summer from school went down to Wisconsin and bought some firework so he can show me nxt day. And that was awesome to see. 

Everything else is going great. The fear of time going fast is still there.

But other than that Maple Grove is a nice place to be. We have so many service opportunity in this place and we are always super happy to serve here.

It remind of scripture from Mosiah 2:17 "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

And service does bring that joy in our life.

I love u all and thank you for all u do. God bless u all.

Love

Elder Shrestha