Well hello there!
Best weekend of my mission? I think so! I can’t
believe that Connor is home already. We are all dying off rather fast... At
least Ryan is finally on his mission though. I don’t know what I would have
done if I had to wait over a year, 2 months was long enough. He’s gonna do
awesome though. This is the last week of transfers and that means we have a ton
of work to do. However, I am still AP for at least one more transfer and I will
be staying with Elder C. I’m pretty excited because this area is
incredible!
So we have a new ward mission leader and he is
going to change the way our ward does missionary work like crazy. He’s already
working with the priesthood and other leaders of the church to make sure that
investigators are integrated as soon as the step foot in the chapel. Yesterday
we had a meeting with him and a bunch of the youth and he is basically looking
to create his own army of ward missionaries, one companionship in each zone of
the ward. He is getting everyone super excited about missionary work and we are
receiving more help than ever from the members! This man is inspiring and it
has made me realize how much of an impact the members can have on missionary
work if they are motivated.
So this weekend we baptized a family of eight!
It was easily one of the happiest days of my mission! We have been working with
this family for that past month and with the help of the members and the Lord
we were able to help them prepare for baptism. This family is incredible and they
were prepared to receive the gospel way before we ever met them. There are
three sisters and their children and the best part is there are still more
members to this family that we haven’t even met yet! The son of one of the
sisters had a lot of influence from another church but once he
received a testimony from the Spirit, he didn’t look back. The Spirit is so
strong every time we enter into that house and I leave happy and excited every
time, no matter what has happened that day. It was a huge blessing to us from
Heavenly Father and I am so grateful to have been given the privilege of
helping this family find the truth.
Well, other than that, life is pretty much the
same. It’s still hot here and the work is still going strong. Our zone had 18
baptisms this past Saturday so there was a lot of white in the church. Next
week we receive 17 new missionaries and that along with all of the transfers is
going to keep us really busy. I love you all and hope you have a good week!
P.S. Our ward is having a Cultural Activity at
the beginning of July. Is there any sort of cultural thing from Canada that
they would like here?
