eMail of February 8, 2010

It didn´t even realize that Nathaniel had an opportunity to be a part in the play. That is awesome! I´m sure it will be an excellent play and everyone will enjoy it. I´m glad to hear that my service is blessing the family as well. Truly the Lord loves His children. When I get home I think I will watch the DVD as well. I also have a goal now to listen to all the conference talks possible. I´m going to listen to two a day at least till I catch up again to the current conference, then perhaps go through them again. There are 24 conferences on the internet starting from 1997 and I´m going to start from there. I´m going to figure out a way to listen to them now.

As for everything else, things are going great. I have a new companion, Elder Wyatt from California. He has a month and a half more time than me in the mission. I am greatly looking forward to working with him. It seems to me like the Lord wants us to work hard and raise up the ward even more. Time is going by so fast though.

As for our investigators we have several that are great and about five that can be baptized this month if we put all our heart and soul into it. I really do feel like getting them baptized. We had lots of success with many people this week. Every time we have needed to find and talk with someone we have run into them. The Lord is guiding the work.

A faith-building experience that I had this last week was that during the week I began to get more and more worried about one investigator. We hadn´t been able to teach him for several weeks. I began to pray hard that we would be able to find him and teach him so we could help him progress. On Saturday we went to his house after not having been able to get a hold of him for the whole week. We rung the bell but no one answered for several minutes. Just as we were about to leave, he answered. He had been sleeping all day, he had work off. While there we felt the Spirit and so did he. We learned what we needed to know to help him progress more, and he also learned more about what he needed to do to know if everything is true. It was a great experience and a testimony that God truly does answer prayers, the prayer of faith.

Well, I am grateful to be here and know that we are bringing about a great work. The Lord loves us and wants us to be happy. I love you too and hope that everyone is able to find joy in all that they do.