Dear dang amazing mom. =)
Miracles have been happening a ton here lately.
Miracle # 1 is that I am actually staying here. My new companions name is Elder Walker so will see how things go with him.
Miracle # 2 This area has been blessed so much by God. Every night for the past few weeks I have been praying that he would make me so busy with people to see that I would be overwhelmed and that I wouldn't know what to do with my time. Well he's been answering my prayer.. We have been cutting down our lunches and dinners and some days we don't even eat dinner till we get home at 9:00-9:30 And the hardest rule for us to keep right now is being in before 9:30 with how much work is going on. We have been seeing so many people the past few weeks. We found 8 new investigators last week. 6 new investigators this week. Have had a couple less active families starting to come back to church. Have been having plenty of lessons to teach to people. Started bringing the youth out with us and they now love to come out so they have actually been setting weekly times that they can go tracting with us. (I love the youth of our church by the way) We have been having a ton of investigators and less actives coming to play basket ball with us on Mondays. Its been amazing with how many things are going on in this area. I'm loving it. I can honestly tell you I almost have no time to really even think by my self with all of the phone calls and getting lessons ready etc... I've been so grateful for how busy the lord has been making us.
Miracle # 3 I really do just love my mission. Last night we were tracting with one of the youth and he looks at me and says " Man every time i have gone tracting I have never gotten in to one of the houses. We have just always talked on the door step." So I looked at him and said " Well we are going to get one today then" A couple houses down we knock on this ladies door. She is probably in her late 50's I would say but she answers the door and says "Guys I'm Lutheran and there's no way that I'm going to join your church." So I smiled and said " Well I promise we don't try to take away from your faith at all. We really just go around and try to strengthen others faith in Christ in these hard times." She looks at me and replied " Oh I already have a very strong faith in Christ and I'm doing just fine. Well I'm going to have to go put away these dogs. Thank you for stopping by." after that I hurried and finished another sentence saying " Well can we give you a pamphlet to read?" She replied quickly and said "Nope." So i looked at her again and asked "Well can we give you a card?" She looked at me again and gave the same repeating answer. So I looked around at her yard and then asked well is there any service we can do for you? She then gave the amazing same answer. "No thanks I'm doing great.I did hurt my arm a little while ago though." She was slowly starting to lighten up to us a little bit after that. I was about to give up and just head off so I said " Well can we just give you are number and if you ever need help with your yard or anything you can just give us a call." She looked at me and finally decided to say sure I'll take your number" So I smiled and said great. After that I started to pull out a card and she stopped me and said " You know what..... You guys can just come in." Wow!! her whole countenance just changed in a blink of an eye. We got on there and just started talking with her and she opened up to us very fast. If there is one thing I have learned from that lesson was that "People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." I know that she could feel the love we had for her. At the end of us speaking with her we found out that her husband was the one that broke her arm and that she was going through alot of other things during the time. Then at the very end she took the Book a Mormon. After that I promised her that each time she was feeling alone or burdened that if she would pick up the Book of Mormon she would be able to feel it all be lifted up. and that would be her witness that the Book of Mormon is true.
Well i got to go. I love you. =)
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