This week was a good one and a learning experience!
As my companion Elder Bromley left, Elder Kauffman came in. He is actually the first companion that i have had that is younger than me. He is from Lehi Utah and is a runner with a full tuition to Utah State. so you know what that means he wants to run for exercise, which i am totally down for but WOW have i gotten out of shape! he is really obedient, hardworking and kind. Really the easiest person to get along with! So i have really enjoyed being companions with him.
Before he left i had the opportunity to meet with Jyyyyye with Elder Bromley and we extended a baptismal date to him and committed him to quit smoking and all other parts of the Word of Wisdom. at first he said he would try and then changed his answer and said he will and it was really awesome to see his commitment to change his life in order to come unto Christ!
As being called a district leader, i have not done too much yet except for recording their numbers and different parts of the work my group of missionaries do and i have done follow up calls with them to check and see how they are doing and what their goals are for the transfer so we talked about their goals and how they want to improve and that is something that i want to help them work on this transfer.
With Elder Kauffman coming in things have been rough because things have taken a bit of a different turn with me not knowing where too many people are because we did the project for mapping for a month and we dont have very many investigators. So it has been rough but we arent going to let it bring us down because we know that we need the struggle to be made stronger and it definitely is helping us to learn and giving opportunity to grow and focus even more on our calling as missionaries.
We were able to meet with this part member family, the exxxxxnogacio family and we had a good visit with them where the mother in the family really wants to learn and wants her family to be strengthened. we have good hopes for her she is 65 years old and is so very nice
We visited with Brother Pxxxxono's and had a good time building trust with her and when we testified of being representatives of Jesus Christ the spirit was strong in the lesson. we came back on Saturday to visit Eyyyyymmy and her daughters and taught them about the Restoration. at the end of the lesson, we invited them to be baptized and Eyyyyymmy is willing and wants her kids to actually grow up an be like us but her husband is abroad and he is not yet okay with that. but we are going to try to build her faith and we have hope that everything can work out through prayer and faith in Jesus Christ.
We also were able to meet with a less active family last night, the Bxxxxxxeck family and they have gone through a lot of struggles and were grateful we came over to visit them. And they have other family members that we are wanting to meet and help. We definitely were led to him because we didnt know him and he had found us and called us over. So we are looking forward to being able to help them more and their family and get them to know how to follow God's plan in order for them to find out how they can be blessed in their times of hardships and trials.
I love this gospel which is a message of hope and i love the continual love God has for us that is incomprehensible. and i am grateful for the Book of Mormon and the power that comes from reading it. i know that Joseph Smith is a true prophet and that their is a living prophet today and he is President Russel M Nelson and i know that Heavenly Father's son Jesus Christ atoned for us so that we can be saved from worries, trials, sin and death. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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