I really like those pictures! You did a really good job on them! There are so many people out here with drug problems and things of the sort. It’s really crazy and really sad to see.
Things this last week went really well. I’m just going to focus
on the neat experiences that we have had.
On Thursday night we went to teach the Less Active that is
coming back to church regularly and we got there just a few minutes early and
Brother W from the Bishopric was already there waiting for us and talking to
Bro S’s neighbor who is his brother in law. Well we went over to talk to them
and Brother W said, “M is going to join us for the lesson tonight. We had a
really good lesson about Reading, Praying and Church. Brother S was just
bearing his testimony about how much they helped him in becoming a happier
person and telling his brother in law how much it could help him. We are going
to go back and teach them both again this week!
We also had exchanges on Saturday with the AP's and I went out
to F with Elder S. We had kind of a different exchange but it was really good!
It was their stake’s Youth Conference and they were doing a 24 hour mission. So
they had their companions and name tags and went around to 4 different stations
and we were in charge of one of them. Ours was the importance of planning and
goal setting. You would think that would be the most boring one but we made it
really fun and people told us that they liked ours the best. We were just super
interactive with them. We were getting them to focus on some friends who weren’t
members and how they would invite them to do things like go to mutual with them
and what not. So then after those 4 rotations they lowered it to 3 and us and a
few other missionaries did a finding station where we taught them to go door to
door and had them practice going down the hall and knocking on classroom doors
where missionaries would answer them. After that they came back in the room
where I was and me and another missionary would help them evaluate and go talk
to them about how it went and what could do better, then they would go do it
again. It was really awesome! Then we went to a baptism in R and took some of
Elder S’s Investigators. It turns out it was Elder U’s baptism so I got to see
him! He is doing really awesome!
So now for another couple of miracles. As you know we have been
praying for families. Well we got a call from some of the R Missionaries and
they said they had a referral for us who was really interested. So we went by
and it was a family and we are meeting with them this next week. Then on our
way out of their apartment complex I started talking to a guy and he said his
wife had talked to us before. We were in a hurry so I just asked if we could
come teach him sometime and he said "yeah sure!" It was really
awesome. So through much prayer and fasting things continue to look up. I
decided to fast again yesterday and we got a call from bishop this morning
about a non member who came to church a couple weeks ago that wants to
meet with us. It’s him, his mom, and his brother. We also got a text from a
girl in the singles ward who said that for our dinner this Thursday she is
bringing her non member friend and we will be teaching him! So many miracles! All
because of prayer and fasting! I was feeling really stressed again earlier this
week and I decided to read the scriptures before going to sleep and I read
D&C 58:4. It made me feel a lot better.
Things are looking up and it looks like we might have a really
amazing week this week! Also W gets baptized this Friday! Soooooooooooooooo
excited! I love you so much!!
It was a good week for a couple good reasons! I got an email from Maxx Pope last week. He got baptized a couple months ago. It is really weird because before I left on my mission I was told that the hardest part was coming home and seeing that your friends are all the same and nothing but you has changed. I’ve been really set on that but things ARE changing a lot! Maxx got baptized, soooo many of my friends are on missions. Those are like the biggest changes you can have!
We are just trying out something new that I
hope continues for a long time! We have a notebook that says "Missionary
Experiences- (name of ward) " and we go teach members a lesson about
praying in faith and about "going about doing good" from PMG and then
tell them for the next week we want them to pray for missionary experiences and
we are going to focus on their family and praying specifically for their family
and when they have an experience they write it in the notebook and in a week we
pick it up and talk about what happened. Then take it to another member and so
eventually they will have a notebook full of the missionary experiences the
ward has had! We just started it last night so we will see how it goes. I’m
very much looking forward to this next week and seeing what happens! I love you
tons! Have a great week!
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