May 6, 2011

Hello everyone!!!

The reason I am writing today is because my P-Day was changed from Monday to today which is Friday because we get to go to the temple today! There has been so much that has happened since the last time i wrote...I guess to start...On Thursday the 28th (my year mark) Elder L. Tom Perry came and spoke with the California Anaheim mission and the California Long Beach mission combined! It was such a neat experience to listen to an apostle of the Lord! Surprisingly enough the first 10 minutes of his talk was about marriage and I think he realized he was off topic because he eventually said "Well, that has nothing to do with what I came to speak about so lets get down to business" haha, he is 89 years old but he seems in his 40's by how lively he is! He focused on the Book of Mormon and studying it deeply. It was an amazing talk! My companion and I taught a new investigator named Andrew this week. Andrew has been going to The OCC (Orange Coast College) Institute and taking classes on the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. He is the most diligent investigator I have ever met. He even asked one day to tract and knock doors with me and my companion so we said sure. When we did, he would ask people questions as well, it was such a cool experience that I have never had before. He is going to be baptized on the 15th of may! We are super excited! He is someone I know for a surety I was meant to come here and teach him. We also have been working with our other investigator named Pierce, and he has been struggling to set a baptismal date, we decided with him that we would all fast and pray on fast Sunday that he would receive and answer about his being baptized. We had a very spiritual lesson with him before we broke our fast and he said the prayer to end our fast. The spirit was so strong and he received his answer and he will be baptized on the 15th as well!! We have seen so many blessings come from the Lord in our area and I know it is because of the faith and effort we put into the work. I am one that really trusts in the Lord with my whole heart that if we have faith and work our hardest, the Lord will follow through with blessings. We had exchanges with one of the district leaders in our zone and I got to have Elder Chang come work with me in our area for a day. Elder Chang was my trainer :). It was really neat to work with him again and realize that a lot of the things I do were modeled after him. That night Elder Chang and I were walking down the street just before we were about to go exchange back with our companions and we ran into a college student named John. I asked him if we could share our message with him and he said sure. We walked over to a nearby park and then taught him about the Book of Mormon. At the end of the lesson we committed him to be baptized on the 22nd of may and he said yes!!!! We will be referring him to a different singles ward because he lives out of our boundaries. I have seen so many blessings it is such an amazing opportunity to be doing this work!!! I will be writing again in 3 days on Monday so I can write more. I love you all and hope to hear from you!! Until next week!