June 6, 2011

Hello everyone!! (Dajia hao!)

This week has been a really good week! Our mission has a special theme this month called "walk with the spirit month". We have decided to cut our mileage on our cars to half this month, so that we can spend much more time out on the streets and in neighborhoods trying to find people to teach! my companion and I planned to go to a specific neighborhood just because we felt like it. When we got there we felt we should go knock on the apartments in the middle of the complex, and something amazing happened...to give background to this story...we used to teach a Brazilian investigator, his name is Davi. He was one of my favorite people to teach ever! He used to come to church every Sunday and was progressing really well, however he ended up moving and he never told us where he went and we were never able to get a hold of him again. It made us sad because he was doing really well and he just kind of disappeared, but we did know he moved to somewhere else still within Orange County......but then again, that isn't saying much because thee are so many people in orange county it would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. BUT we knocked on this door and we talked to a man for a while, he wasn't interested but after we asked him if he knew where college age people lived and he said his neighbors are and they are Brazilian. So we went and knocked on that door, and jokingly said to each other while waiting "what if Davi was to answer the door?" and guess what DAVI ANSWERED THE DOOR! We found him!! It was so great! We taught him a lesson and he is getting back on track. I enjoy so much working with the people here in Southern California, and the weather is just always amazing! I can't believe what my life would ever be like without the experience of what I am doing now. It is preparing me in so many ways. This Sunday our recent convert Andrew blessed the sacrament!!!!!! He also asked me at church what I did to prepare for my mission because he wants to prepare fully for his mission when he can go in a year! There is no greater thing to hear than that! I love this work. It is true! God and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith, they called him as a prophet. The church and Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored in its fullness!! And that is something I cannot keep to myself, no should you. Tell the people around you! I love you all! Until next week!