Week 22 It Feels Good To Be Back

I love you!!
It feels so good to be back! Back on email, back in the mission field, back to having a missionary name tag!

For those of you who weren't aware that I returned home, I did and I'm back now and happier than ever! If you have any questions you'd like to ask me feel free to send me a reply separate from this group and I'd be happy to share more in depth and  answer any questions you may have.

What a neat journey it's been! I would not be able to be back where I am today serving in the Missouri St. Louis mission if it weren't for the loving divinity and true power of Jesus Christ's Atonement. EASTER was yesterday and was such a special day for me. Always has been, but as I grow older I gain more personal experience that allows me to grow closer to my Father in Heaven and gain a better understanding of my relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. He loves us so much. He has set such a special path for us to follow that will get us on the path to returning to our Father in Heaven. It is not an "EASY" path, but it is "SIMPLE". He asks us to have FAITH in Him. To recognize need for and seek forgiveness through REPENTANCE. To follow His example by being BAPTIZED in His name. To seek guidance from the HOLY GHOST daily. Then to take all of these principles and ENDURE through trial and tribulation. Jesus Christ is our light He is the only way back to our Father in Heaven.

So I invite you all to strengthen your relationship and if you don't have one, start building one with your Savior and Heavenly Father

A little update! I'm back in the Missouri St. Louis Mission! I have the same loving mission President, President Bateman and his wife Sister Bateman LOVE THEM!! I am in the Shiloh O'Fallon area, which is in O'Fallon Illinois. My companions are so legit! So hard working, motivated and loving! Elder McKeon and Elder Toki, both from Utah and have been out quite sometime so they're helping me get back into the feel of things.

(I'm still trying to figure out my phone, my schedule & how to get my email groups back to normal, so if you want to be more in the loop with my updates and get photos, feel free to email my mom she's the best and will get you any pictures and can get you my address if you wanna send letters!!)

Mama Newbold (ashlee)- ashnewbold4@gmail.com

LOVE YOU ALL! HAVE A FANTASTIC WEEK!

Entermission!

After coming home from his mission in September, Joshua was able to return to the mission field April 9.  After being home for 7 months.  

I'm so pumped!!! My companions are so dope! As soon as I found out who I was with I felt at home and all of my stress went away.

I'm in a zone leader trio companionship with Elder Mckeon (the AP from when I left and he knows Kynlie) and Elder Toki (he is Tongan and has cousins in Vita's ward)

So many blessings on transfer day!

Elder Jensen (my son, the one I trained) is my DISTRICT LEADER! So we see him every couple days. Elder Burgess is in my friggin zone so we see home once a week. Sister BEAL is my Sister Training Leader. Just an absolute wild set up here! Everyone's dope and I'm hyped about the work.

I'm in Illinois now. The Shiloh ward in the O'Fallon zone. The ward is amazing and so much more interactive then Bear Creek. The weather was 35 degrees yesterday and 70s this week. I'm so close to St. Louis I see the arch way more often!

I'm about 25 minutes from St. Louis and was 2 1/2 hours from St. Louis when I was in Bear Creek. I went on an exchange already with Elder Burgess and that was dope to be with him again! He took me to east St. Louis!! The most ghetto part  the houses are crazy cheap. Ask me about it on the phone when I call! (he said they talked to a guy who had just bought his house for $750.00 CRAZY!!)

I feel so at home and feel so much more at peace this time around  repentance is legit., but man my back hurts more than it ever has I'm taking my meds throughout the day.  My pain is like an 8 in the evenings, 9 in the morning getting out of bed and a 7 throughout the day. I don't just sleep in the brace, I even had to wear it today to shop. Please don't worry about me or feel like you need to send a billion things or even a mattress topper, it's life and if it gets to that point I feel like I'm losing my efficiency, so just keep praying

I love you so much

You say I make you proud, but you as my mother knowing your son is out here and getting through each and everyday and putting up with all of us children, you make me proud.

Love, Elder Newbold

PLEASE keep him in your prayers and pray for a miracle that his back pain will be taken from him.