This week has been so great. I don’t even know where to begin. So I will start with Monday. We had a great p-day and we had a FHE at one of our members house! It was great we invited investigators and answered questions and things like that! It was great! The spirit was “tick”.

We had transfers and Sister T. and I are so happy we are staying together! We have lots of new and very fun missionaries. I really do miss the ones that have left but they are always replaced by someone just as great!

Crazy Stories from this week:

So we were at one of our investigators, she remains anonymous. And we had one of our members there. This member has just become CANCER FREE!!!!! Ah we are so happy. Anyway so her foot has this whole in it from the cancer and while our investigator was saying the closing prayer she like started to ‘bless” Sister C.’s foot and squeeze it and get all up on touching it! And then started to take her dress “cloth” and to cleanse and heal her wound!!!!! It was wild. So needless to say I tackled her so she’d stop. JUST KIDDING! I just told her to be careful. Next lesson we’ll talk on priesthood authority! 😉

WE MET THE CUTEST OLD LADY IN THE WORLD! Well besides L. 🙂 Her name is Sister H. and we go sing hymns through her window.

Anyway we are meeting such fun people. They are very nice and we have lots of investigators it’s just very tricky with all the religions here. But there is always hope.

“It’s not the thing you fling it’s the fling itself…….”

DRUM ROLL PLEASE! Brother K., our hard core progressing investigator IS GETTING BAPTIZED IN LESS THAN A WEEK, ON SUNDAY!!!!!!! On September 8th will be my very first baptism. He is so ready. Brother K. they found contacting a few weeks before I got here. He started out not super interested. But something changed in him. He progressively started to pray and read the Book of Mormon and he’s been coming to church for months! He literally is wonderful. Yesterday at church this is the conversation we had.

Me: Brother K.! How is your Book of Mormon reading going?

Brother K.: It is going great. I only got to read five chapters last night.

Me: HOLY CATS BROTHER K.! That is great! You are awesome.

Brother K.: Well thanks…. I was fasting so i didn’t really have anything else to do….. (Can you say “awesome”?????) (Brother K. also participated in the mission wide fast for this push on member missionary work.

Brother K. loves the Book of Mormon and Bible! He reads at least three chapters everyday from the Book of Mormon! He is so excited to be baptized. And we are so excited as well!

Ya know what? Life is great! (sorry this email is all over the place) I honestly love the people i work with here SO MUCH. They are my family (for now at least). I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary. And I am so grateful for the gospel in my life and the happiness that it brings! I get to share that with people! How blessed am I? I have learned so much and am continuing to learn everyday. I love it. In all honesty I would not want to be anywhere else right now. I know this is where I am supposed to be. I am grateful also for my savior Jesus Christ and for my Heavenly Father. I have gotten so close by speaking to my Heavenly Father and counseling with Him on how to be better and how to help these wonderful people!

Spiritual Experience ( I have them everyday): But one for this week was while we were having weekly planning we decided to have a goal of only saying and doing things that Jesus Christ would do. It is difficult. We were reading from 3 Nephi when Christ appears to the Nephites and how he takes time for each person and goes to them one by one and we talked about how we needed to really help each person individually and be patient. It was an eye opening experience!

We were reading in 1 Nephi ch. 15 today and I loved verse 8. It is so simple. “And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?’ I love this because how often to do we just not inquire of the Lord and rely on our own knowledge. Nephi is showing his brothers that they know not of the things which his Father does because they have not prayed to Heavenly Father to know. There cannot be conversion without prayer.

Anyway I will move on!

Mahm: Thank you for fasting with my mission that was very nice of you! I am hoping that it will push the work forward! I liked your spider story and the dog jumping on the tramp story oh and your primary story. The best part was me picturing you doing both of those 😉 Good job on your missionary work! I have a new perspective of that. I will be a much better missionary when I get home then I was before I left. Have a great week. I love you a lot.

Daddy: Sounds like you had a lot of fun being active as usual 🙂 I love you.

I can’t remember if I am leaving anything out. I will probs remember stuff to tell you after I am done emailing…. Happens every week.

I will let you know how Brother K.’s baptism goes 🙂 All of you have a great week. Remember who you are! I luff you.