eMail of November 9, 2009

It has been a good week, for me at least. There wasn´t all the progress that I would have liked, but we're moving along. One investigator we met the week before started out saying that she didn´t want anything to do with us. She already had her faith and didn´t need to listen. But we just talked and helped her feel comfortable. She began talking to us about the gospel on her own and listened. The next time we went by she was all excited and wanted to learn more. She has decided to go to Church on her own. She couldn´t yesterday but she wants to next week.

Sometimes the least likely is the best investigator you can get. You just have to follow the Spirit. Yesterday I had prayed that we would find the person that was prepared to hear us. I felt very strongly while planning that we should go to a certain place. We went there and found one lady that let us in and is very interested. She listened and wants to keep listening. The power of prayer is real, but it has to be done with the right motive. The only motive that is right before the Lord is love. Of all things that is what I´m learning right now. Faith, hope and charity with an eye single to the glory of God. And that comes through the prayer of faith along with all other things.

Everything about the gospel seems to be clicking now as well. I read the scriptures and I can feel it, see how everything works. I connect the scriptures automatically in my mind and the principles. It seems that I am more able now to explain those principles and help others not just to understand them, but live them. And that because I am learning to live them.

I could say that I had a testimony before the mission, but that testimony is nothing like what I feel now. My testimony has grown an hundred fold at least. Time and time again I see the power of the gospel help others change and become better. I also found a great scripture that I really like. 1 Timothy 1:5; Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. The end of everything is that we have love and faith. I love you all and am grateful for your prayers and support.