I’M SO SORRY EVERYONE!!!! I've been so terrible at writing emails back on this one and to individual people! Next week I set aside time to do that so don’t be afraid to email me next week I promise I'll email back!!
These past two weeks have been great!! We have seen so many miracles! The work is hastening! People are ready and that's meant for us that we need to be ready! The last 2 weeks we’ve had 4 different exchanges! One of those were with the AP'S! they are awesome!! Definitely taught me alot and helped me become a better missionary, fixing roles plays, how to be more effective on exchanges, other things I can study, etc.
Just like past weeks we have had 3 or 4 lessons about everyday!! This past week was a little slower but we’ve been teaching alot!! We have Jade Cash being baptized this week on sunday after General Conference!!
Oh how happy I am for General Conference!! ITS LIKE A HOLIDAY OUT HERE!
• We had a lesson with Rachel, she is a high school student and wants to learn more, he family is baptist but after our lesson she seemed like she wanted to understand more, that's great!
• then there is Samantha she is also in High School! And she is Roman Catholic but was really blown away by how much what we taught made sense, so we have a lesson with her this week!
• We had a lesson with Tonya! She is older lady and she is someone who could 100 percent be on date this upcoming week!
• we have Sister Dykes in our ward, and her little grandson Jeremiah! Wants to be baptized but doesn’t really go to church, so we went over and he told us he wants to be baptized! So we are going this week to come up with a date and help him understand more and support him! He is so cute!
• Tandy is a 65 year old who wants to be baptized (KINDA) she knows the Book of Mormon front to back! But she has some fears! All of her kids are members, but many have passed on, so we have a lesson tomorrow to kinda be bold but with love and explain to her the Plan of Salvation and her son on the other side of the veil working hard and about how he was baptized and having her think about that! We gave her Mosiah 18 to read as well as D&C 76. She loves to read so it's good haha
* OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS HUGE!!
A man named Elshawn and His friend Mallika! We started talking to them a couple days before this past Saturday! And when we got there we introduced ourselves and Elshawn said wow y’all have such a light about you! I can see it flowing above your head! HOW INCREDIBLE!! anyway we went on to learning about them and man o man they told us everything! They explained how they have been dropped by friends and have been in bad areas and things in their lives and they wanted to start new! Elshawn said "I have no doubt there was a reason you called me when you did!" We taught them the beginning of The Restoration but more so understood and addressed their needs!
Their story is truly sad but is gonna be so remarkable! At the end we just cried together! We told them about church and they came! They are definitely the most prepared people I've taught! They have such a desire to change!
• Chris is a guy we found on Facebook on Saturday night and we invited him to church! HE CAME!! He loved it! And after church there was a baptism so we brought him and taught him the whole Restoration! He loved everything! He has been reading the Book of Mormon already! He said I've never been baptized can I be baptized here!! We said of course! We'd love to talk more this week! So we have a lesson here soon!
• last person sorry haha! Albert is someone we found on Sunday night! He is from Ghana and lived in Italy! He loves the missionaries but they stopped teaching him about a year ago! He goes to a different church but he wants us to come back over this week on Friday!
All I can say is miracles!! I'm grateful to have had the chance to be an instrument in the Lords hand all the time!! We had zone confernce last week! And us and the Sisters gave a training about listen and asking questions (ch 10 of Preach My Gospel) we told them the why, why we need it! Then the what it is, and the how! We brought members for the companionship to role play with!! Everyone killed it!! It was such a tender mercy to have given that training then literally using it 2 days in a row 3 days later!! SO INCREDIBLE!!
I have started studying deeply about Jesus Christ and His Atonement this week for Easter!! Oh how powerful it has been! Gospel library has everything I could ever ask for along with all these things you can find in missionaires apartments haha! Anyway I dont have a ton more time but I promise I'll share more doctrinal thoughts and things I've learned for myself and from President Harris next week, I wrote them down don’t worry!!
I love you all so much and I'm so extremely grateful for the examples I have in my life!!
Homework for y’all:
1. "The Purifying Power of Gethsemane"
- Bruce R. McConkie ( April 1985)
2. "The Beauty and Importance of the Sacrament" - John H. Groberg (April 1989)
Also listen to Savior, Redeemer of My Soul!! HOLY COW I LOVE THAT SONG!!
Alright it's time for me to say goodbye! Haha love y’all, email me next week and I'll actually 1000000 percent email everyone back I promise!!!!!!! LOVE YOUUU
LOVE,
Elder Wold
PICTURES:
1. STILL LOVE THIS PIC
2. This parking garage tho
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