10/20/14
Hi guys!
So,
It was a bit of a busy week! A great one though! Before i get into it though i
need everyone's help! My mission has made a goal of reaching 500 baptisms by
the end of the year, Its a bit of a tall order being in the heart of the bible
belt. However, I know we can do it! We are all praying very hard to be able to
reach our goal and to help the people in Alabama come unto Christ and receive
his restored gospel! Thus, if anyone has a bit of extra time, please pray to
help progress the work here. Prayer is one of (if not the) most powerful forces
on the earth I know that if we all have faith and pray, we can see great
miracles!
Its
just like the brother of jared in ether 12:30
30 For the brother of Jared said unto the mountain Zerin,aRemove—and it was removed. And if he had not had faith it wouldnot have moved;
wherefore thou workest after men have faith.
Anything
is possibly through faith in our lord and savior! So let us all exercise faith
together in this missionary work and lets do the lords work!!
Alright,
so here is a little bit about my week. This week was a good week, First off our
English classes up here are starting to draw Hispanics in! We have had 3 new
really strong investigators in the last 2 classes. They are all very open to
learn both English as well as the gospel and all 3 have expressed desire to
come to church and receive more lessons! We have Fernanda who is a young mother
and who is very open to the gospel. We are working with her with the sisters as
well as branch members and she feels very welcomed and fellowshiped at the
church. We are praying that her, as well as the 2 men (Louis and Eric), can come
to church on Sunday, They already love English class and all of the branch
members they've met from our branch sports nights. We plan to keep working hard
to help them come unto Christ!
In
addition to that awesome opportunity to find and work with new investigators, I
also went on exchanges with Elder Virtue this week. We worked really hard and
ended up teaching some awesome lessons FROM TRACTING! it works! Hopefully him
and Elder Habonimona will be able to continue teaching these new contacts! in addition,
we also taught one of the most spiritual lessons ive ever taught on my mission.
The sisters gave us a referral to a man named Billy and he gladly welcomed us
in. We taught him about the plan of salvation and showed him it was all backed
up from the bible and BOM. He expressed desire to read the BOM and to learn
more about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Ive never felt a stronger
spirit testifying of truth then when we taught about the spirit world. It was
an amazing experience.
So,
Exchanges went awesome, Elder virtue is a good elder, he and i taught very well
together. Me and elder Jackson are doing very well, we are striving to help the
mission reach its goal and striving to be the "6:29" kind of
missionarys. not the "6:31".
Now
that last part is really important! 6:29 or 6:31. In reality its
only 2 minutes right? but how great of a difference it makes! When we as
missionarys strive to be obediant over 100% of the time, and not only that but
to better ourselves 100% of the time, we can become so much closer to our
savior! Yeah 2 minutes is only 2 minutes, but over the course of a mission
that's over a full day of wasted time,24 hours! Thats time to use working out
our preparing lessons, working out, preparing to be a better missionary! I have
a strong testimony that obedience brings blessings and that as we as
missionary's. ALL OFF US as missionary's, if we are obedient to the
commandments, we can see miracles and see peoples lives change for the better
:) So i challenge everyone to 100% obedience to the commandments of the lord.
YOU WILL BE BLESSED IMMENSELY!! you dont have to live a missionary
schedule, but strive, everyone, to live up to the commandments of the lord :)
IT IS WORTH IT :)
To
end i just want to share a few links to amazing quick videos from conference!
hopefully you can share them with friends :)
These
and many more are all amazing videos!! Please check them out and invite your
friends :)
I
love you all so immensely! have an awesome week!
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