AUGUST 15, 2011

This week was very eventful and i loved it and i had so many spiritual experiences!!!!!!! and i have learned so much!!!!! we had a baptism on saturday which was one of the highlights of my week!!!!!!!!! i didnt get to start teaching LJ since he already started getting the lessons before i came to the mission but i got to end his lessons and witness his baptism which was so inspiring!!!!!! He is about 30 years old and has cancer. he ended his last chemotherapy treatment last week which was so great and he is doing so much better and is in remission!!!!!! he was so stoked to get baptized and he could not stop thanking us for this opportunity!!!! it was so great!!!!! earlier in the week i got to go on exchanges with elder mchardy!!!!!! he is so awesome, i talked a little bit about him in the last email!!!!!! i was kinda down earlier in the week because i feel like that im not as good of a missionary as everyone else because im so new but elder mchardy helped me realize that it does not matter how new you are and he told me that im one of the best missionaries he has ever seen because of my testimony and my personality!!!! so it was great that i got to spend the day with him because i learned so much!!!!!!!! We got some new investigators this week which was so great!!!! they are a young couple and we are going to work more with them!!!!! Then we got to teach carey and anthony figueroa. i dont think i have talked about them before!!!! they are a young family and they are so great!!!! they are in their early 30's and they already seem so mormon!!!!! they are friends with members of the church so we all went over to the gustavesons house and we taught carey and anthony the plan of salvation and it went really well. carey said that she wants to get baptized!!!!!!! Yesterday i had a really neat experience!!!!!!!! there is this girl in the farmersville branch and her name is kailyn and she has been going to church for a few years but she hasnt wanted to get baptized!!!!! my companion and i split up on sundays since the ward and the branch start at the same time so the ward and the branch mission leaders come and pick us up and they are our companions for the day!!!!!!!! i dont really like it that much because after church we go out teaching and i would rather have another missionary with me to teach than the mission leader but i have come to learn that Heavenly Father wants me to learn from this!!! so after church yesterday, the branch mission leader and i went over to kailyns house to just drop by. i havent met her yet because im still pretty new and have not met every single person in the ward and the branch!!!! and soon as we walked in she told me that she doesnt want another missionary pressuring her into being baptized, and i told her to NOT WORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i got to know her a little and the spirit kept prompting me to talk about baptism and i really didnt want to because kailyn has been through so many sets of missionaries and i didnt want her to not like me!!!!! but i just started asking her about why she doesnt want to be baptized and i cleared up her worries and then i went over the baptismal interview questions with her and she said that they werent bad at all, then i just felt like i should ask the question "will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone holding the Preisthood authority of God?" and GUESS WHAT SHE SAID?!?!?!?!?!? YES!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so stoked!!!!!!!!!!!! it has taken her so many years and she has gone through so many missionaries and she has finally said yes!!!!!!!!! i know im exactly where the Lord wants me to be and he has prepared people to be taught by me!!!!!!!! This week was great!!!!!!!! I hope you all are enjoying the last couple weeks of summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!