To Mom:
3 things first
1. That car looks great! Thank you so much!2. If you may recall Elder R was my MTC companion! My first comp. on my mission! haha He is a great missionary and we will be flying home together.
3. I fly out of Ontario August 6th at 3:00 our time because that morning is a Zone meeting that Elder Nn and I have to do for our zone. So we will have zone meeting and go straight to the airport haha
So we have some great news from this week! First off I’m
emailing Wednesday instead of Monday because we had Zone Conference and President Interviews on Monday. So last week N finally texted us and asked
if we could come over so we got the relief society president and went over and
N said she has been thinking a lot about her baptism and she wants to do it. So
she is getting baptized this Saturday at 7:00 :) On my birthday! :) We are really excited for her and it’s
been a rough week this week because Satan is really trying to keep her away but
the whole relief society presidency went over and took her some homemade Jam
and just told her how excited they were for her. It made a big difference.
We had a few other neat things happen. We had a training last
week about better contacting and actually have conversations with people not AT
them. So on the 4th of July we got to go to J’s brother’s house in C (now part
of the mission) and he had some of his non member neighbors over and a PM
family that were really good friends with them. We spent a bit of time just
talking to them. We played soccer a little bit with the PM family’s dad who
isn't a member but we totally thought he was but had a great conversation with
him. Then later I ended up talking to one of his neighbors and amazing things
happened! I was just making easy conversation and he asked if I live here so I
took that opportunity to tell him a little about missions but he just changed
subject so I went along with it and asked him about his home in T where he
moved from and about his family and all of a sudden he started asking me
questions first about missions, then about the church! Just from having a good
conversation it changed and they opened up ways to share the gospel. A couple
days later we went to help J at his house and his brother F came over (the one whose
house we had been at) and I was helping him clean out J’s garage and he told me
that he really appreciated us talking to the non members at his house and how every
time he turned around it seemed like we had just been gravitating to the non
members. He also said how much more comfortable he was now to try to talk to
his neighbors about the Gospel. We had a good talk for a bit about missions and
how to make the work move faster and then we ended up a few minutes later going
over to J’s neighbors house to see how they had redone their backyard and made
it look like old school wild west. It was really really awesome and F and
I were talking to one of the brothers that was showing us the house and he
asked if we were Mormon and we just were able to talk to him a little about it
and found out his brother is taking lessons in … and getting ready to be
baptized. Then it clicked that we were talking to the brothers of C who was someone who told us to come back and
teach her but had gone to college. Her brothers were just as nice and willing
to let us come back so we are going to go over to teach them hopefully tomorrow! It was quite the miracle!
Those are pretty much the highlights of our week! We had some
good experiences and are just continuing to look for people to teach. The R
mission has banned tracting and from what I hear ours is about to do the same. It’s
a good thing though because its soooo ineffective. Well I love you tons and can’t
wait to see you In a couple of weeks!
To Dad:
I can finally buy beer!!! haha well on Saturday I can ;) hah 21 Birthday doesn't mean a whole
lot in our church. We have had a great week! N is getting baptized on Saturday and Js confirmation went really really well.
He just fits right in with the ward. He is a goofy guy but just makes people
laugh which is good for everyone to do. On the 4th of July we went to a parade
in the morning with … and his family and it was really fun. There were a lot of
people in it and it was about 2 hours long. We also had pretty much the best
dinner ever at J’s house a couple days later. We had been doing service from
1-5, and chopping through rock solid dirt and digging a ditch for sprinklers
and moving things around a really big garage. So we went to dinner and because
of lack of time weren't able to go change before dinner so we washed down a
little bit with his hose in the backyard and just went with no shoes. We ate
outside under a covered area and had some awesome Mexican food. It was just
really relaxing. It’s been so so so awesome to see how strong of a member J has
become since choosing to come back to church and get his priesthood back. I
think that is pretty much all that wasn't in the other email. Had some really
great miracles this week which just go to show that God still does love us
today :) I hope you have a great week! I love you!
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