Family and Friends,
This
week has been one of the most Spiritual of my life. We were able to
teach another great lesson to Anthony Tuesday night. His brother Cole is
9 and Isabelle is almost 8 so we are teaching them as well. We brought a
less active member named Brother Ryan and he bore the sweetest
testimony on his conversion story. We are trying to reactivate him as
well. It seems time is flying by. Ive been out for a month now. Which is
absolutely insane to me. Im 1/24th of the way done. I hope to make it
the best it possibly can be. We have been having some trouble finding
people to teach. But on Thursday Elder Gay of the quorom of the Seventy
gave us some amazing council at our yearly mission tour on how we could
use the members. And it will be great for the rest of my mission but for
now it will be tough. We technically are only allowed to meet with the
members of our area and we only have 5 families that are in ours. Since
we have so many sets of missionaries in our ward it's hard for us
because our area is so spread out and not many members live here. So we
continue to tract and Spirit Find and have found some people who are
interested but haven't seemed to teach anyone here quite yet. It's been
tough to find people who are not just being nice but are sincerely
interested. But we will continue to search and find the lord's elect. We
have prayed as a companionship to know how we can further the work. And
it's been rough but we know that through the Spirit and the promptings
that come we will find our way. I love this work and everything about
it.
Elder Gay bore beautiful testimony on our purpose as missionaries
and how absolutely true the Gospel is. It's all true. It just simply is.
And I can testify to that. Elder Gay was the Ghana mission president
and a few of the stories which he shared I feel are to personal to be
relayed to you. But just know that it was a beautiful experience for me
and I wish everyone could have been there. I saw the Spirit being worked
through a man of God. He was so intense and so sincere. I loved every
word he had to say.
And I hope I can continue to fulfill my purpose.
Some time this
week we were able to teach Sierra. A convert to the church and she's
been a member for about 2 months. And she has a great testimony. but
during the lesson a bee flew up my plant leg... and the spirit was so
strong as we were teaching that I didn't want to make any interruptions.
So I left it there... for 20 minutes... My faith has never been tested
more. It came my turn to bare testimony and the Spirit kept telling me
to say more. So I continued... and the bee would fly around and buzz
some. And then stop. Eventually we prayed and got in the car and I
immediately took my pants off and out flew a bee. Elder Berthold and
Elder Tanner laughed so hard when I told them what happened. Sunday we
had a chance to fast to know what we should do for Laurie. She is the
investigator that we haven't seen since the first day I got here and
committed her to baptism. So as I was writing in my journal last night I
received revelation that we should send her a letter since we can't get
in touch with her any other way. So that's what we did. We decided to
write our testimonies and hope that she would feel the Spirit enough to
meet with us again. But Ive learned to act on the promptings that come
to me. So we will see how that goes. I do love this Gospel. It truly is
amazing. A mission is a time where we prepare for the rest of our
Eternal Lives. It's not a time we wander through. We have purpose. And
we get exhausted. And we struggle. And we are blessed. And we come
closer to God than in any other time in our lives. It all becomes real
here. It all remains true. We prepare for Godhood and sacrifice the
things of this world. I love you all and wish the best for you. I love
the support and the love. Thanks for all you have done. the church is
true.