Monday, March 18, 2013

Email Letter - March 18, 2013

Hey everyone. We had an exceptional week this week. As far as numbers go we had the best week of my mission with 25 lessons, 4 less-actives to sacrament and 1 investigator to sacrament. We worked our backsides to get those numbers, and we're feeling pretty good that we can do it again this week.

The idea is to help motivate the other missionaries and also to inspire the members to help us out. Member trust will hopefully skyrocket. Especially since we had a huge report to give this Sunday, while the stake presidency and other stake leaders were in the meetings due to ward conference.


Some highlights: We ran into a less-active member for the third time in the last two weeks, and were finally able to set an appointment with her as she realized that God was putting us in her way for a reason. We ran into her on our way to dinner, members had given us some money and we were going to go to the Chinese place, but as we passed the town's burger joint I changed my mind, and since I'm the driver what I say goes. So we stopped, and as we got out of the car, this less-active was getting out of her apartment on the other side of the street. That was the third time,  and we got things set up for tonight at another member's house.

Another cool experience happened as we were meeting with a less-active that we've been teaching for a while. Her sister was just diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. We were able to testify of the hope that comes from living the gospel of Jesus Christ. We also outlined the events that led up to her meeting with us. Her daughter was baptized, so she started going to church in Corning, where her daughter and son-in-law are, then the  missionaries there told us about her and we got over to her house and started teaching her. The lesson before she found out about the cancer we taught about the Plan of Salvation. We were able to testify that she had been led by the Lord to us and that with the Gospel she would have greater strength and would be able to stand stronger with the sorrow of her sister's illness.

Those were just a few of the miracles we had this week. It was full of great things and hard work. I love you guys, have a great week.

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