Tuesday, September 6, 2011

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Well this week was great!!!!! so many great miracles happened this week!!!!!!! on tuesday we were out knocking on doors which i love doing!!!!!! there was this street that i felt like we should tract on so we did and guess what happened?!?!!?!?!?!? we knocked on this door and this 19 year old guy answered and he was like oh hey guys!!!! so we thought that maybe he was a member and he was just here visiting!!!!!! but it turns out that he just moved here from idaho two weeks ago!!!!! and before he moved here to texas he was meeting with senior missionaries and they were talking to him about getting baptized!!!!!! he said that he has moved five times after he moved out of his parents house when he was 18 and all five of those times missionaries have shown up at his house within two weeks of him moving!!!!! so guess what, we showed up at his house two weeks after he got here!!!!! it is so cool how the spirit works, i love it!!!!!! we have been meeting with this couple, the guy is less active and the girl is not a member!!!! they were supposed to get married today but something came up so hopefully they are getting married next week!!!! then the girl is going to get baptized after they get married!!!!!! our investigator james who is 18 and has a baptismal date for the 24th is doing great!!!!!! we went on splits with the ward mission leader and another member because we had a bunch of appointments on wednesday night so the ward mission leader and i went to go teach james!!!! i taught him the word of wisdom and the law of chastity and it went great!!!! he does have a smoking problem but tobacco doesnt even have a chance against the spirit!!!!!! so we are helping him give up smoking and he is doing so great!!!!!!!! connie and gary went through SO MANY trials this week but they are pulling through!!!!! i dont want to lose these investigators because i love them so much!!!!!! they still havent met elder sullenberger yet because every time i have been over to their house im on an exchange with another missionary in my district!!!! but connie calls me just about every single day and she is so great!!!! she thinks that elder seager is my companion!!!!!!! i cant wait for them to get baptized!!!!!!! after this week something good needs to happen for them because they went through so much this week and i know its because satan is trying to get them to fall!!!!! so yesterday we didnt get to go to church because elder sullenberger got sick so we had to stay home all day!!!!!!!!! in the morning i watched the testaments and then i basically studied from the bible and book of mormon all day which was great because i got SO MUCH studying done!!!!! all the missionaries in my district couldnt believe that i didnt slack off and that i studied all day!!!!! this week was great and it was a lot of fun and i learned a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its starting to cool down which is great!!!! this morning it was 75 and it felt so great outside!!!!!!!!!!!!

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