Elder Field Returns Home!!!!

And just like that, he is home!!

Elder Field Will Forever Remember These Last 2 Years. Peace Out Cali, It's Been Fun!

Wow 2 years are over already.... I can't believe that we are here alreadyt.... In some ways 2 years has flown by and in others it felt like it has crawled. But in all reality 2 years is 2 years. Time is time. It passes like it always does. But it's all about how you perceive it.

Before I go any further let me tell you of a really cool miracle I found out about this week. Do any of you remember a Daniel Robinson from my last area? The guy who drank so much freaking beer our first lesson?? Well guess what. He actually is getting baptized this coming Saturday! To be 100% honest I didn't have the greatest expectations for him getting baptized and neither did my companion, but we both just decided to give him the best shit we could give and look at him now. He has given up drinking, smoking, and all his drug problems, that an I'm pretty sure he was dealing drugs. Haha so he gave it all up. So that's super exciting! Guys people can change. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real! So, cool I was able to be a part of his changing his life. Missions are the coolest thing ever. 

This week was good, filled with a bunch of trying to get all the assignments I have been assigned to do done haha. All while trying to teach Preach and baptize ya know? ;) I'm organizing a musical number for some conference tomorrow, I was asked to teach in zone conference, I am helping the Zone leaders and the sister training leaders out with tech problems regarding power points and videos, helping with making a video for the Zone this last week, writing my talk for my homecoming (which by the way is super messed up that I have to write it on my mission, it's messing with my mind 😂😂😂) and getting family history started for the new converts, making sure they are in good hands before I leave. Setting up appointments for Erik down in San Mateo with his missionaries. It's just been crazy haha! But it's better than it being slow for the last little bit. It's good though, I love it! 

Man, I guess this is the part of the email where I get to reflect on the past 2 years...... I will first start of by saying, if there is anyone reading this that is pondering about a mission. Do it. No ifs ands or buts. Just do it. You will not regret it. It’s hard, it's difficult, but it's amazing. I guess I will just end with my testimony. I know this is all true. It's all real, it's all so very very real. The Book of Mormon is real! You can find out for yourself! Read and pray. Go to the guy with all the answers. He will tell you what's true and what's not. Joseph Smith is and was a prophet. He saw what he said he saw! I know that he saw God the father and God the son at 14 years old! That's the same age as my little brother! And I know it's true because I read and prayed about the book of Mormon, and the experience I had while in Carthage jail, the feeling I felt was super strong and I know it was God telling me it’s true. I will add my testimony to the one elder Holland bore on 2009 of the October General conference. 

"Now, I did not sail with the brother of Jared in crossing an ocean, settling in a new world. I did not hear King Benjamin speak his angelically delivered sermon. I did not proselyte with Alma and Amulek nor witness the fiery death of innocent believers. I was not among the Nephite crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them, “[I] give [my name] unto the world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.” And like them, “[I] lie not, God bearing witness of it.”

                I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days."

And I leave you those closing words in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Peace out Cali, it's been real. I leave those I love that I have labored for to you. I will be back! Love ya! 

The closing of this chapter of my life is sad, but I'm excited for the next. Who wants to join me? 

God is Good,

Cheers!
-Elder Riley Field

Elder Field Gets A 30 Minute Long Sermon About How He Is Going To Hell

Hey friends and family!

Haha yeah....... Let me tell you this story before I say anything else. I was reading a really awesome talk one day while eating dinner. (We didn't have a dinner that night.) It was called Becoming a Consecrated Missionary. I was all pumped. I like to read it when I need some good motivation. Well, I was super pumped, ready to go, we picked a street and wen to go tract it all out. We knocked a few doors. There was this one house that had this really cool rock path way up to the door. I was so pumped. We knocked on the door and he let us right in! Gave us water and then gave me a 30 min sermon about why I'm going to hell and how we worship a false Jesus, and how every Mormon will NOT enter into the kingdom of heaven....... yeah....... that was rough hahaha we just finished the sermon. I wished him a great day and told him he was a beautiful child of God and then we left, BUT we went outside now that all of our finding time taken up. While walking to the car we found a really awesome Spanish referral for the Spanish elders so all in all we found a new gator just not for us

Anyway, this week was pretty good. Just a lot of finding and trying to get back into the new normal with only 1 companion again. It was amazing how quickly we got used to 3 people. So, we are getting back in the swing of things. but we are still doing some teaching. We had some sad things happen this week. Steve Meza who was super promising dropped us this week D: doesn't want to learn. That and James Voorhees we had to drop..... it made me sooooo sad!!! D:D:D: But hopefully in the future he will be ready to progress. But we are just trying to get out and find a bunch of people. 

The Minnier's are still doing amazing. Working on their family history right now!!! So excited! Joe is doing the same. We are going to get them to the temple as soon as their records show up. :D WOOOOOOO!!!

I guess the time has come to let everyone know..... Yes, I'm coming home in 2 weeks. So, if you’re my friend and you want to come hear me speak in church, I will be speaking June 17th at 408 W 1300 N, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 (I don't know the time..... haha... hopefully I will find that out soon) But that is one of the reasons I'm trying to get out there and give it my all and why my emails are lame and short now.... I really have loved my mission. I’m so incredibly sad that it's coming to a close.... but I know my missionary service doesn't end in the field. It will continue back home. God is so good, and I have learned so many valuable lessons. I have learned how to work. And to find joy in the little things. But I know it's not over yet. And I'm going to keep working as hard as I can until the last minute. :D I love you all!!! Have a wonderful week!!

God is Good,

Cheers!
-Elder Riley Field