So first off, conference was amazing :) Gotta love missionary Christmas. Kinda weird because that was my last big missionary milestone, so now I've got nothing left to look forward to other than MLC next week. *shivers*
So a lot of this week was spent teaching, or on exchanges. Not a bad thing though. Dani is adjusting really well. She really loved conference (she took notes. Who does that other than missionaries???) and she's getting ready to go to the temple later this week. She seems really excited too! We're pretty stoked for her :) The Platamone's are also now all systems go for their baptism this Thursday at 6:30, we just have a couple other doctrines we need to go over. There is supposed to be quite the turn out, we had to reserve the chapel :) We also had some success with finding this week. We're slowly building up a pool of potential investigators, the hard part is starting to teach them. This week we'll hopefully start that process with a few of them.
Also I had one of the coolest things ever happen to me. Here's how I wrote it to Pres: "This week I had one of the coolest experiences of my mission that solidified my testimony of personal revelation. I'm pretty sure I shared it with you at zone conference, but at the risk of repeating myself I'm just going to tell you again. It happened at the end of my exchange with Elder Alder. We had finished our plans for the day, and we were trying to figure out what we should do for the remaining time that we had. We decided to stop by a less active by the name of Mike Treu that Elder Willis and I have been trying to catch for a while, and on our way there we passed by a street who's name I recognized. Earlier that day, our WML, Brother Bateman, had given us an assignment to visit the family of a less active member whose 7-year-old-son died earlier this year in a tragic accident. He had told us to just "knock into them" because his records weren't in our ward and he wasn't sure of how to treat the situation. Anyway, as we passed the Spirit came to me, clear as day, and said, "As soon as you knock on Mike's door and he's not home, I need you to get onto that street. You're going to talk to that family." Well, sure enough Mike wasn't home, and so I told Elder Alder we should walk around the corner to that street. We had barely stepped onto the street when we met a woman walking her dog, so of course we stopped and talked with her. We hadn't talked long before I realized that she was the wife of the less active that Brother Bateman had asked us to see. She emotionally told us of her doubts of whether or not God existed and if she would see her son again, and we testified of the Plan of Salvation and told her she would indeed see her son again. We gave her a pamphlet and promised her that if she let us come and share that message with her and her family that it would bring them the comfort that their seeking. She agreed, and we exchanged phone numbers. We're still working on setting something up, but it's amazing to see how much divine orchestration was in place for that to occur. There's no way that it was a coincidence." Isn't that awesome????
Hope you guys have a good week though! See you soon ;)
October 10, 2016
As for this week, it was awesome :) I mean it's pretty hard to have a bad week when you have a baptism, especially for people like the Platamones. It was honestly the best baptismal service I've ever attended, and not just because it was in my ward. It was just incredibly spiritual and very well put together. Both of their kids who are members spoke (the other, who is not a member, was surviving the storm down in Florida), and their son was the one who baptized them. They were so excited and it was so cool to see the gospel pull this family together. The ward really pulled together as well. There were probably around 100 people there, which is unheard of. Most baptisms are lucky to have 40. President Felix also came, which really meant a lot to the both of them. Russell was extremely honored. The confirmation yesterday was also great, and we have an appointment with them tonight! I'm really excited to see them because I LOVE seeing people after their confirmation. There's a tangible difference in them. Once again, I love my job :)
So that's the work, everything else has been finding which is going pretty good.
That's all for this week! Kinda weird that I have only 2 more emailing times, huh? Soon enough I can just call you....gah. Man that's weird. Honestly though, it's pretty much set in and I'm not having to hard a time focusing. Trunkiness is just a myth created by those who want to excuse their laziness, and I'm not about that. Prayers are still appreciated though :) Love you!
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