Hello!

Hello my dear family and friends!

This week was another pretty good week! This week I realized that

pondering the gospel and reassessing where you are at and how to

become better is pretty awesome and it brings you so much closer to

Heavenly Father! Since I'm a missionary I ponder these things a lot

more and yesterday I realized that it has been a huge blessing. It's

really awesome cause I feel like I am communing with Heavenly Father

constantly. We basically goes like we converse in my mind and then he

tells me things I need to do better then I say but why and he answers

and I obey. It's funny how being obedient is so essential for us but

it is like the hardest thing to do ever. This week with our new Stl

Sister van Uitert we talked about obeying with a willingness of heart.

If we are trying to be obedient and our heart isn't in it then we are

not going to be able to succeed because we won't understand the point

behind it. Anyway I just think it's interesting how important

obedience is. After all it is the first law of Heaven.

This week we made some solid progress. We found two new investigators.

For the most part they seem pretty interested and ready to hear the

gospel. I really hope that they do. This gospel is so important for

everybody! Seriously everybody needs it in their lives. We decided to

try a different Tracting approach this time because we didn't feel

like what we were doing with pass along cards was getting us anywhere

so we decided to tract with our scriptures and at every door to say

that we wanted to share a scripture with them and then we applied it

to them personally and talked about who we were. That was a more fun

way of Tracting. More people were down to hear a simple scripture and

it gave us the opportunity to invite the spirit and testify to them.

It was really cool. This coming week we are doing another sacrifice

Saturday where we are Tracting and street contacting all day. That

will be fun! The missionary program in our ward is also planning a

family history event where people can come and learn how to do family

history and use the church tools. I'm excited for the event to happen.

We all felt really strongly that we needed to do something with family

history to help bring people into the church building and to feel the

spirit. I'm really hoping that it will go the way that we want it too.

I can already tell you that the highlight of this week is going to be

getting to hear Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and Elder Lynn G. Robbins

speak to us on Friday. I am so excited to hear them both speak and

give us guidance on how to be better missionaries and a better

mission. I cannot wait.

The members here are really starting to warm up to us and missionary

work is becoming more prevalent in the ward. It has been such a

blessing! I'm starting to really love this area. It has taken 3

transfers but the people are really great.

Anyway I love you all! Life is good in the field!