April 16, 2012

Oh boy was this week crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So on tuesday we had
district meeting in the morning which went really well!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
trained on how we can listen better to people and how we can discern
the needs of our investigators so that we can try to help
them!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then aftwerwards we did some tracting so we can try
and find some people that are ready to be taught!!!!!!!!!! Then we had
dinner with Phetsavanhs!!!!!!!!!! I love eating at their house because
they are from Laos and they make really really good asian
food!!!!!!!!!!! We are working on getting them to the temple so they
can be sealed!!!!!!!!! They got baptized about 6 or 7 years
ago!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards we had a lesson with Gaby over at the
Ryans house which went great!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach her the
gospel of Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love teaching that lesson
because the gospel of Jesus Christ is really so simple!!!!!!!!!! If we
have faith in him, repent, get baptized, receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost, and endure to the end; we are promised that we will have
eternal life!!!!!!!!!!!!! She really took if well and we have decided
that we think its her parents that are holding her back!!!!!!!! We all
know she is really to be baptized, she just needs to recognize the
spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wednesday was a great day!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to go
on exchanges with the zone leaders so Elder Smith came to my area for
the day!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a great afternoon of tracting and
contacting people!!!!!!!! We even found a family that was interested
in learning more and told us to come back that night!!!!!!!!!!!! Then
we had dinner with Emilyn and we got to teach her a new member lesson
after dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went back over to that families
house and the mom answered the door and told us that they werent
interested anymore!!!!!!!!! I dont know what happened but i was so
sad!!!!!!!!!! We still left a pamphlet with them and put our phone
number on the back and told them to call us if they ever would like us
to come back over!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll probably stop by again in a week
or two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I had to go drop off a thank you card at
the Aguilars for my surprise party the week before so we went and saw
them and drove the sunbeck elders to their apartment and then we got
back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then on thursday morning we had studies and
then we exchanged back!!!!!!!!!!! We planned during the day and then
we had a lesson with Marcus in the afternoon and then we had dinner at
the spanish familys house with the sunbeck elders!!!!!!!!!!! On friday
we got a call from the assistants saying that there was an elder in
Pleasant Grove that hurt his leg so they had to take our car and let
him have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So on friday they came over and took the car
away and now we are back on bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being on a bike
but it is starting to get hot outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to teach
the Morenos and Sister Morenos sister on friday night and that went
great!!!!!!!!!!!!! We taught about the law of tithing and the word of
wisdom!!!!!!!!!!!!! It went really well!!!!!!!!!!!! I love teaching
about those things because we are promised so many blessings in return
if we just do those little sacrifices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Saturday we
had studies in the morning with our Stake President which was really
great!!!!!!!!!!!! I love President Blake, he is such a nice
guy!!!!!!!!!!! We got to talk about how we can help our investigators
understand things from the scriptures without us even having to teach,
we can get them to teach theirselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then afterwards
we did some tracting and we talked to some really nice people and
invited a lot of people to check out mormon.org which is one of the
best websites ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then in the afternoon there was
an activity at the chapel with the sunbeck spanish branch!!!!!!!!!! We
got to invite our investigators and there was soccer and volleyball
and a bunch of food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was really cool and all the
investigators had a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have gotten a lot
better at spanish!!!!!!!!!!! I can basically understand and read
everything, im just not very good at speaking it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But its
ok, im an egnlish missionary so i dont need to worry about speaking
it!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday was a great day at church!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was
ward conference in the first ward so we got to hear from our stake
leaders which was really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then at night we had
another new member lesson with Emilyn which went great!!!!!!!!!!!! We
got to teach the word of wisdom again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some really cool
things I found out this week is that one of my investigators that I
taught a lot in my last area is getting baptized this saturday and I
might be able to go!!!!!!!!!!!! Also a guy that Elder Byington and I
tracted into about three months ago is getting baptized this
saturday!!!!!!!!! We didnt get to teach him because he is 21 so we
gave him to the YSA elders but I am so excited for his
baptism!!!!!!!!! We got to teach him about the book of mormon when we
met him and give him one and then we handed him over to them and now
he is getting baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love how great the
spirit is!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to serve in a YSA ward so
badly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this church so much and I am so
thankful to be a missionary for this church!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is so
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know that the Lord guides us all the time
with this work!!!!!!!!!!! All we need to do is listen and then go and
do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope all of you have a great
week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!