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This week was full of all sorts of things. We got to meet Gloria, this Kenyan lady who's really nice. We went with Elder Gunderson and she really liked his passion for the gospel! On Sunday she attended church and really loved it! One of the members picked her up, and the members were fantastic at fellowshipping her.

Funke came as well! She's awesome. I've never taught anyone who has a better understanding of the gospel than her. She's ready to be baptized. Please pray for her and her husband!

Vyacheslav came as well! He's really great and I could tell he enjoyed it.

Elder Whittle and I have been getting along well. Elders Pearson and Richards went home on Saturday (their flight got delayed one day). It was sad to say goodbye and also weird that I'm the 2nd most senior missionary in Iceland haha...

On Tuesday we went out to a place called Shake & Pizza, which claims to have had the 4th best pizza in the world, but it wasn't my favorite. For the past week or so, over 1600 earthquakes have occured here! It's epic. There's magma trying to find its way towards the surface about 30km away.

As I've been studying the new edition of Preach My Gospel, the introductory message from the first presidency has been heavily on my mind! One of the lines follows the style that President Nelson loves to use. It talks about how "There is no more compelling or important work than the gathering of Israel.". So I started studying the gathering of Israel and was reminded of the revelations given to Joseph Smith in the Kirtland temple. D&C 110:11 says: After this vision closed, the heavens were again opened unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north.

It struck me how powerful this work was, and that this new Preach My Gospel was created through the power and authority of the priesthood keys which were restored to the earth through Moses to Joseph Smith. It's yet another witness to me of the divinity of the restoration, that it actually happened, and that God truly does work through us to bring to pass His eternal purposes. He's helping us share the message of His Son's atonement with the world.

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