Sorry i just typed a full letter and half of it got erased but i hope you still engjoy the email :) Having Elder Olpin with me has been so much fun! I am very excited for this upcoming transfer. This week came with many surprises ones that were awesome and one that did not treat me so kindly.
On Tuesday night my companion left and I was left a lone wolf that night...with my house mates of course because i can never be alone actually but the next morning we went over and picked up Elder Olpin which was really fun! I had a lot of fun getting to know some of the new sisters that came into our zone (as zone leader i take care of transfers and people coming and getting to their new areas). We spent that day at the house, unpacking and talking about the zone and the new things for the transfer and also introducing the zone to Elder Olpin. After a long time of talking we decided to go out and teach and meet with our investigators. Everything was going great until i started feeling so sick! Earlier i had taken a dare on eating this fried chicken from a place that we always eat breakfast and i have never experienced any problems but whatever was in that chicken had completely destroyed me, i spent the rest of the night regretting that chicken and planning to never eat fried chicken again hahaha it was sad. I think the worse part was the next day i was too sick to eat the pizza that President had bought for our meeting! Nothing stopped me from taking home a brownie that Sister Hughes made and saving it for later. This took us out of a work for a bit and of course as I started feeling better Elder Olpin experienced the same thing except he got sick at a members house. It was horrible poor guy he kept trying to work though but we ended up taking a rest at 7-Eleven for a half an hour. We were really bummed about being held up from being able to work because we had so many people we wanted to visit and teach. God really did provide a way though we saw so many miracles this week.
We visited Grace again and she still had some questions about the Restoration so we went over that again and answered her questions. She is so very nice and she is really trying to find something for her family. we testified to her about the importance of a prophet and focusing on her coming to know if Joseph Smith was called as a prophet.
We visited the Esterninos family and really focused on the basics, reading, praying and going to church. I love that family and i want to help them because they struggle with reading and praying together and they rarely go to church. They truly are so nice and i know that they are getting closer to coming back into full activity.
Alright this is where i just about lost of everything else...in a nut shell what i said was...
The Macatol family is in full activity and more and more keep coming to church in their family we taught them and the mom is starting to look toward the temple so to help them stay on the right path we invited them to start holding family prayer.
The Arellano family also is now all going, the father is not yet a member and has not gone to church for a year, since his wife and kids got baptized but now finally went as we have been teaching his sister and she is now going to church! After going to church he loved and accepted a baptismal date! We were so happy!
Jelyn (an investigator we had been teaching since november) finally went to church and we wer so excited about that and she is now ready to get baptized with her daughters and we are so excited! it took so much patience but were are so happy and we feel that now is the time!
So many other miracles happened but I cant list them all because one...i lost everything and two there were so MANY miracles! Serving God is a work of miracles. You cannot serve successfully without Him because this is His work. With all of these people i have seen that God has placed them before us. Every week we go out and find people but when we teach them and listen to them we realize that WE didn't find them, but God brought them to us. I am so grateful for the family I have and as now i am celebrating 18 months of being out, today and i love the work and being able to leave my family for a bit which has been made eternal to help others follow the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ which is His plan that is found only in this church so that their families can be eternal. It is such a great work! I love you all!
Elder Wright
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