January 17 2016

This week has been pretty full of miracles to say the least. We've all got our struggles, and we've all got things we need to improve on, but this week has been quite a turn around from previous weeks in terms of the Missionary Work. We currently have four investigators, and three of them are Progressing. The first, a new young family with a husband, P, wife, L, and a 10 month old daughter. The funny thing is, they litterally live right above us, litterally, one floor above our appartment.¨, and they are progressing so well. We had an appointment to meet with them on Saturday, and we recieved word from them that they would not be able to meet on Saturday, and that would mean that we would need to have our next meeting an entire week later, and that is not good. Elder Oviatt and I were both nervous about the situation, and so we did our best to make the appointment happen some other way, and it just wasn't going to happen. Then, yesterday, on Sunday, Elder Oviatt and I headed out to contact people on the river paths next to where we live. We had just about walked out of the building when we saw P, next to the door, and he was preparing the stroller so that he could go out for a walk with his daughter. We said hello, and talked for a few minutes, and then we walked out of the building together. We explained that we were going by the river to talk to people, and he said he was heading in the same direction. We thought that was cool, and decided to talk to him, and check up on his Book of Mormon reading. Long story short, we ended up just walking next to the river and talking to P the entire loop, which is about an hour long walk, and we had one of the coolest lessons I've ever been at. P had litterally just decided to go the Exact same route for his walk that we had decided to take the night before while planning. The Lord really wants to make sure that we're teaching this guy. In only two weeks, he's read up to 3rd Nephi, and he has said, "yeah, I think it's true..." We have already invited him to be baptized if he finds out that these things are true, and he has said, "yes probably" so we just need to get him on a secure date now. Our only concern is that his wife is not always present in the lessons, so we're working with that. Oh yeah, and we need to get them to church. Then today, we just called up a former and he asked us to come over, we did, and had the coolest atonement lesson I've ever seen. He's going to be progressing very fast too. This week has been up and down a lot, and it's like I'm riding a spiritual rollercoaster sometimes. But It's been an incredible week. Can't wait to see what's on plan for Thursday's training. We will be having our first training for this Transfer on that day, and we'll be learning about Agency, Opposition, and Faith. It's going to be pretty cool to see all the new missionaries. I'm officially a full fledged missionary now. Fully fledged in terms of not being the young'n anymore. Kinda is hard sometimes though, to realize that I am no longer the greenie. Time just flies by out here. There are days when I feel like it's only been 1 day that I accidentally didn't write in my journal, and then I look over and it's been two days! what the heck??? on Saturday, we attended the baptism of our friend who lives in a neighboring city. He litterally was just a golden investigator. He met the missionaries, and took the discussions, never had any concerns and then was just baptized on Saturday. Incredible. Love you all, and I know that you pray for me because I'm seeing as well as feeling the effects of your prayers. Thank you. I'll pray for you too.