Saturday, April 27, 2013

10/15/12

What up fam?
This week was also really great. So Monday we had an amazing district meeting. We talked about hope and it really hit home with me. Having hope and faith will get us more referrals. But in district meeting I received some personal revelation, actually my questions that I had going into conference, it got answered the day after but it came. What I felt I needed to do was focus on the scriptures. read them more, improve my study and take them literal. so this week I have been doing just that, I have felt good this week. Things have been better and I have been really happy.
This week we, we received a lot of references, more than we have in the last who knows how long. We have been a lot more busy, it has been awesome. Everything has just been really great.
Tuesday we had splits with other missionaries, I was Elder Barrett, from Utah. He is a really nice guy and it was fun. I got back with Elder Bennett and he was like.. You're not gonna believe the day we had. Then he gave me the numbers from the day and I was pretty shocked. In that day we had better numbers than the entire weeks before. Elder Boden, who was in my place was like.. what kinda of members do you have?? We really do have amazing members, its just that sharing the gospel is really hard for them and the rest of the members here. Our relief society president is the most amazing lady I have met in my mission. Just amazing. I'll tell more someday.
We had lessons with this guy from named Hugo. He is 25, he doesn't know to much about God or anything but wants to learn about prayer. I will keep you updated. Lorena that lady I told you about is reading the Book of Mormon, she couldn't go to church this week but we will keep teaching her this week, I really think she going to be baptized. The brother that gave us the referral talked about how he prayed to be able to find someone for us to teach and felt like he was lead to her. He shared it in testimony meeting.
So after testimony meeting we had the ward missionaries teach Lucy lesson 2. We were there and also the ward mission leader and his wife. Everything was great then Luci confessed that she had a hard week and has been so sad and confused because she hasn't felt like she did when elder Bennett and I were teaching here the lessons and when she was baptized. She has been doing everything since! On Saturday she fasted and gave fast offerings and has already paid tithing, everything but she didn't understand why she had felt the same. We explained that God tries our faith and sometimes we have to act remembering those feelings we have had. We will always have the spirit but its not usually that overwhelming feeling that happens in a baptism or when we pray about the Book of Mormon. Then the ward mission leader gave her a blessing and the room filled with the spirit. All in all it was an amazing experience!
Life is great. I am doing great. I am really becoming stronger.
I loved reading Cade's email this week. Dad I'm going to write a few thoughts to you. Wes and em, hope all is amazing in Peru. Jason and Jan, Amanda and Brian. Thanks a ton for the emails last week. I will write back when I can. Thanks for the prayers everyone.


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