Hello Everyone!!
This past week has been a pretty good week! On Monday my companion and I went to UCI (University of California Irvine) and talked to everyone we saw. I saw this young man locking his bike up and I said "Hey, you ever talked to the Mormons?" and he laughed a little and said that he actually hasn't before. He invited us in and we taught him and two other of his roommates. It was a great lesson and it was interesting because they were all from different religious backgrounds. One was raised Christian and had a good knowledge about the bible, the other was catholic and rarely went to church, and the other was raised in a Chinese family who had no religious background at all. They accepted to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, they recently cancelled our next lesson but we will check on them in a couple of days to see where they are at. We recently got a new ward mission leader and he is so good! We were kind of struggling to meet and correlate with the other one, but the new one is so excited about the work and he has already been coming to lessons and helping us out so much!
Our mission president told us he wants us to make our own mormon.org profiles!! So I already made mine and now it is being processed, but it should be up soon for everyone to see. To my family who reads this, even my relatives...make a Mormon.org profile! It is such a good way to share your testimony with the world and the world really needs it today. We have been meeting with our recent convert Michael and his sister as well, his sister has been coming to church every sun day and she is doing so well, and working toward her baptismal goal, she lives in a different area though so this week we passed her off to different elders. However this last lesson we taught with Michael and his sister, his mom joined us! It is such an amazing thing to see that Michael is being such a great example for his entire family! He also said this Sunday that he wants to work toward serving a mission!!! This transfer has this week and the next and then we will be in a new one, it is very crazy how fast time goes. I love you all, I hope all is going well. Until next week.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
Hello everyone!!
Ok, well I don't have much time again....being a zone leader is crazy, but i love it! This week our investigator Michael was confirmed a member of the church!! He is so happy and it is an amazing experience to see how much he has progressed in these short couple of weeks! We were able to meet with Michael's sister who is not a member, and it was a great lesson about the restoration of the Gospel, and she accepted a baptismal date!! We went on a few exchanges this week and I had the chance of working with some other elders in our zone! I find it so interesting to see how many different ways things can be done. it truly amazes me how the Lord has placed so many people in our path! This week we had interviews with our new Mission President, so Elder Coons and I got to do 9 hours of training the elders and sisters of our zone while 1 by 1 they were interviewed!! We were a little nervous about teaching all of them but we got a basic outline of what we wanted to teach and then the spirit took us the rest of the way, and in the end it went very very well! I love this mission and this opportunity to be out here serving the Lord and serving everyone around me! I love you all, I promise I will start writing a bit more in my emails haha, things will get a little less hectic soon and I will let you know all that has been happening! I love you!! until next week!
Ok, well I don't have much time again....being a zone leader is crazy, but i love it! This week our investigator Michael was confirmed a member of the church!! He is so happy and it is an amazing experience to see how much he has progressed in these short couple of weeks! We were able to meet with Michael's sister who is not a member, and it was a great lesson about the restoration of the Gospel, and she accepted a baptismal date!! We went on a few exchanges this week and I had the chance of working with some other elders in our zone! I find it so interesting to see how many different ways things can be done. it truly amazes me how the Lord has placed so many people in our path! This week we had interviews with our new Mission President, so Elder Coons and I got to do 9 hours of training the elders and sisters of our zone while 1 by 1 they were interviewed!! We were a little nervous about teaching all of them but we got a basic outline of what we wanted to teach and then the spirit took us the rest of the way, and in the end it went very very well! I love this mission and this opportunity to be out here serving the Lord and serving everyone around me! I love you all, I promise I will start writing a bit more in my emails haha, things will get a little less hectic soon and I will let you know all that has been happening! I love you!! until next week!
Monday, July 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
Hello everyone!
We have a new mission president! President Bowen is absolutely amazing! We had the opportunity of having him come with us to teach one of our investigators named Jocelyn. I admit, we were pretty nervous to go teaching with the mission president, but it was one of the best lessons we have ever taught, the spirit was so strong!
This past week and few days have been some of the best of my entire mission so far. It started out with a lot of knocking and finding but we saw amazing miracles. Our investigator Michael was baptized on sunday!!! He asked me to baptize him so that was the first person I have personally baptized on my mission. It was such a beautiful baptismal service. He has such an amazing story. When I was on exchanges with another missionary we saw a young man playing basketball, so I walked up to him and started talking to him. He eventually walked over and sat down with us at a bench. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel, at the end we invited him to pray but he wouldn't pray with us, so I told him to pray silently, and he did. He said afterward that he felt tingly and pretty happy, so we scheduled another meeting and left. At the next lesson we asked him if he had been reading and praying and he said he tried but didn't do much. We focused on helping him know the only way to receive and answer is through reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it. We struggled the next couple of lessons but then at one particular lesson, I had a strong feeling to tell him "Michael, I know that you already know it is true. What are you willing to do to show your faith?" and he just said I don't know, defintiely not going to be baptized. At another lesson, we brought members with us and they were recent converts themselves, after that lesson he started reading like crazy from the Book of Mormon, he came to church every sunday and he started going to institute as well. He told us later, that one night he was walking to his house and he stopped and had an overwhelming feeling come over him that brought him to tears, and he said at that moment he knew it was all true and that he needed to be baptized. He has such a strong testimony!! It was interesting because from the first time we met him, I knew he was special, I could just feel it, despite the fact it wasn't easy.
I also got word this week from an investigator I taught named Tony. We found him a while back also while I was on exchanges and we taught him everything and passed him off to different missionaries back in his hometown because he wanted to be baptized where all his family could come. He was baptized this saturday!!!! There have been so many miracles out here. I am in awe at how much the Lord really loves each and every one of us. I love this Gospel and I love being a missionary out here in southern California! I hope everyone is doing well.
We have a new mission president! President Bowen is absolutely amazing! We had the opportunity of having him come with us to teach one of our investigators named Jocelyn. I admit, we were pretty nervous to go teaching with the mission president, but it was one of the best lessons we have ever taught, the spirit was so strong!
This past week and few days have been some of the best of my entire mission so far. It started out with a lot of knocking and finding but we saw amazing miracles. Our investigator Michael was baptized on sunday!!! He asked me to baptize him so that was the first person I have personally baptized on my mission. It was such a beautiful baptismal service. He has such an amazing story. When I was on exchanges with another missionary we saw a young man playing basketball, so I walked up to him and started talking to him. He eventually walked over and sat down with us at a bench. We taught about the Restoration of the Gospel, at the end we invited him to pray but he wouldn't pray with us, so I told him to pray silently, and he did. He said afterward that he felt tingly and pretty happy, so we scheduled another meeting and left. At the next lesson we asked him if he had been reading and praying and he said he tried but didn't do much. We focused on helping him know the only way to receive and answer is through reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it. We struggled the next couple of lessons but then at one particular lesson, I had a strong feeling to tell him "Michael, I know that you already know it is true. What are you willing to do to show your faith?" and he just said I don't know, defintiely not going to be baptized. At another lesson, we brought members with us and they were recent converts themselves, after that lesson he started reading like crazy from the Book of Mormon, he came to church every sunday and he started going to institute as well. He told us later, that one night he was walking to his house and he stopped and had an overwhelming feeling come over him that brought him to tears, and he said at that moment he knew it was all true and that he needed to be baptized. He has such a strong testimony!! It was interesting because from the first time we met him, I knew he was special, I could just feel it, despite the fact it wasn't easy.
I also got word this week from an investigator I taught named Tony. We found him a while back also while I was on exchanges and we taught him everything and passed him off to different missionaries back in his hometown because he wanted to be baptized where all his family could come. He was baptized this saturday!!!! There have been so many miracles out here. I am in awe at how much the Lord really loves each and every one of us. I love this Gospel and I love being a missionary out here in southern California! I hope everyone is doing well.
July 1, 2011
Hello everyone!!
Today is my P-Day because we get to go to the temple today! So I will not have a P-Day this upcoming monday, but it will be the following one. Anyway, I guess I can a short little recap on what has happened in the past couple of days so far. My companion and I have been trying to find new places that we can find the college aged people, and it has been a lot of knocking and talking to everyone we see. We were a little sad this week because we had lost contact with one of our investigators for a little bit but we got back in contact with her last night and taught a lesson with her. She had a family emergency that she had to take care of and that was why she was out of town and didnt respond. She wants to be baptized and has been telling all of her LDS friends that she will be! She is a standup comedian as a hobby, and she is pretty funny and very fun to teach. We have also been teaching two other investigators, named Michael and Andrew and they are both loving the lessons and coming to church. We are working with them on setting a goal to be baptized and it seems like that time is very soon now! Please include them in your prayers if you can! This week they have been renovating our apartment and we have to be out of our apartment from 8am-5pm everyday. They have almost finished the kitchen and they will be giving us a washer and dryer which will be awesome!
Today our new mission president, President Bowen and Sister Bowen arrive!! It is sad to see President and Sister Watrous leave but I am excited to work with the Bowens as well! I don't have much more to add to this, I guess thats what happens when you end up with two P-days in one week ;). Well I love you all! I hope everything is going well!
Today is my P-Day because we get to go to the temple today! So I will not have a P-Day this upcoming monday, but it will be the following one. Anyway, I guess I can a short little recap on what has happened in the past couple of days so far. My companion and I have been trying to find new places that we can find the college aged people, and it has been a lot of knocking and talking to everyone we see. We were a little sad this week because we had lost contact with one of our investigators for a little bit but we got back in contact with her last night and taught a lesson with her. She had a family emergency that she had to take care of and that was why she was out of town and didnt respond. She wants to be baptized and has been telling all of her LDS friends that she will be! She is a standup comedian as a hobby, and she is pretty funny and very fun to teach. We have also been teaching two other investigators, named Michael and Andrew and they are both loving the lessons and coming to church. We are working with them on setting a goal to be baptized and it seems like that time is very soon now! Please include them in your prayers if you can! This week they have been renovating our apartment and we have to be out of our apartment from 8am-5pm everyday. They have almost finished the kitchen and they will be giving us a washer and dryer which will be awesome!
Today our new mission president, President Bowen and Sister Bowen arrive!! It is sad to see President and Sister Watrous leave but I am excited to work with the Bowens as well! I don't have much more to add to this, I guess thats what happens when you end up with two P-days in one week ;). Well I love you all! I hope everything is going well!
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