Hello Everyone! I can't believe it is Monday already! Wow!
It was a really good
week! We were able to have some good lessons with Greg getting him ready for
his baptism! We had a funny experience with him this week, he told us that he
had a problem he wanted to talk to us about and I thought. Oh great! This has
been so easy here will be the problem! Then he said, "I just don't feel
like I serve enough! I want to be more involved with helping people and serving
them!" That is not even close to anything we were expecting that we
started to laugh! It was awesome! That is a concern that we can readily fix! Ha-ha
We also had a really cool lesson with Alec on Thursday and
then he came to a baptism on Saturday and then we had another cool one with him
on Sunday! It was great! He has a baptismal date now and is working towards it!
Way fun! I love it! We also had a really cool lesson with the Tucson Zone
Leaders (the ones on U of A) and a guy named Ricky! It was a sweet lesson about
the Plan of Salvation and the Spirit was super strong! Ricky even recognized
the Spirit! It was sweet! Sadly a few days after the lesson he told us that he
is not ready for the lessons right now. Dang. But we'll keep praying for him!
We also had Zone Conference this week! It was great! I love
those meetings, even though they are long! They are so cool! We also had a bunch of other meetings this
week including our monthly meeting with the Stake President and the High
Councilman over missionary work! It was way cool! Things are going really good
in our zone so they were super excited!
We also spoke in church yesterday and then taught the gospel
principles lesson - all without knowing we were going to! It was great! That is
the type of thing you need to get used to while being a missionary! But I love
it!
Here is a portion of an email I got today from one of my
recent converts! This is one of the coolest things that I have read in a long
time! (Names have been changed!)
"But anyways, I moved back Tuesday and felt the urge to
stop at the temple on my way in... so I did and I ended up staying there for
two hours reading my scriptures. It was great. And I don't know if it's weird
but every time I'm at the temple I just always want to touch it but I never
really did before until Tuesday. Once I did though, I started crying. It's so
crazy to think that that’s the closest we can get to God from here, I'm a huge
baby now ha-ha. I love and temple and so thankful it's so close.
Sooooo, I made a goal. I want to a least get one person
baptized my last year here at Eastern. I know my friend Sally, the one I’m
rooming with, feel something or is at least a tad bit interested when we talk
about it. She hangs out with all of us, all Mormons, and she just asks all
kinds of questions even if it's just me and her. It's awesome. Me, Stefanie,
Stefanie's cousin, and Sally were at Joes house telling creepy ghost stories
we've all had encountered and then Joe had the bright idea to go to some
haunted places and some creepy cemetery. The cool thing about it though was as
we were leaving and Candice said a comment like "This isn't fair you're
all Mormon; just make sure you guys surround me." I don't know why but
that comment just stuck with Joe, Stefanie and I, it was a pretty awesome thing
to hear... she has to feel something!! Ha-ha. Also, we went to cluff ponds and
for some reason I felt like I should stay a little longer than the others...
probably cause I had an uneven tan line that I wanted to fix ha-ha, but anyways
I'm so glad I did, because there were these guys who were all drinking and me
and Stefanie were just chillin in the sun and the guys kept talking to us. One
guy asked if I would play beer pong with him so I said "I don't drink but
I'll play for fun" and then Stefanie ended up playing too, but then
religion came up and we found out that they were LDS. Me and Stefanie are
determined member missionaries so they gave us their numbers and the one guy I
was partners with came home on his mission early and is trying to get better
and hang around better influences so I told him he needed to come hangout with
us and he said he really wanted to. So I'm either baptizing Sally or helping
this guy get back up on his feet...or both ha-ha. Sorry that was a long story.
But it feels GREAT being back."
That is the point! Once you have truly been converted and
changed by the gospel and the Atonement you CANNOT be content to just keep it
to yourself!
Things are going well here! I am so tired all the time it is
insane! I am super tired today so I apologize that this is short!
Love you all!
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