mom and dad,
everything is going really well here. just trying to work alittle harder and make sure that we are always doing what we are suppose to be doing. The weather has been perfect here. all of the days this past week we didn't even have to wear jackets cause it was so hot outside. It was really awesome. Well our President hasn't left yet i dont know what it going on with that i know that he is goin to be leaving this week so things will start changing around here soon, but they haven't yet. The branch we have yeah is the smallest, the members are really awesome and i have learned alot of Spanish from them so that is good. They finally started getting excited about the work and we are getting a few people to help us out and everything. so that is exciting. I have right now... 4 companionships in my district. so its not to big, kidda small actually compared to what i have had in the past. This week was a really good teaching week, and we saw alot of good miricles. Our new investagator, is sweet. So we went over to teach her and we talked about the restoration and read from the Book of Mormon. She really felt the power of the Book of Mormon, and we all were edified by the wonderful Spirit. She committed to a baptism date, and to read. She struggled to say the closing prayer but we didn't give up on it, and she finally said the prayer. It was amazing and i love how when people pray for the first time with you. It is an amazing experience. So then we set up a time to go back and talk to her. We had one of the members go with us, and when we got to her house and began she just smiled and said that she read. So we started going through the part that we left her, and she told us that the other night she was reading and she just felt so good, and that this was true. That it applied so much to her own life, and that she just felt so good. We had our member bear testimony of how the Book of Mormon changed her life. She was a convert so it was a perfect testimony for our investigator. She also opened up to us really well, and told us that she didn't really want to leave all her family that are all catholic, and so she is having a hard time with making that changes and excepting all that we are there to teach her. She doesn't want to make everything a big deal with the family, and her husband. We are just trying to read more and more and increase her faith so that she can have the courage to make the change.
We had problably 30 mins left for the night and we didn't really know what to do. We had tried by alot of people that day and nobody was home or answering so... we were just thinking of who we could call. Elder Braulio decided to call a person we met out on the street, we answered and said we could pass by. We went over and just started talking to him. He has alot of interest but he is stuck on having just the bible, but really wants to learn more so we are going to pass by this week to talk to him more and help him get into the Book of Mormon more. He has alot of potencial, but alot of questions, he wants like all the answers right now, but i think that he will start progress as soon as we teach him more about the Book of Mormon.
Our one recent convert moved to California this week to get away from her husband and go live with her family. it was hard for us to see her go since we had worked so much with her, and for me, was my first baptism, but i know that it was the best thing for her to do. She needed a place where she could feel the spirit and progress in the gospel. So we had shared some scriptures and just bore testimonies with her. It was a good experience. Although right now we are having a hard time gettin a hold of her in California. So i don't know what is going on there.
I know that i need to use the Book of Mormon more in my teaching and learn to use it alot more. I want to be like this missionary that just left. He could tell you everything that happens in every chapter of the Book of Mormon. We quized him on a bunch of things and he know the chapt and sometimes which verses... he was amazing he really did have a good knowledge of the gospel and everything that was in there. Something that has been helping me is memorizing scriptures. it helps alot! Anyway all is going really well.
I don't get interviewed that often here... i ahve only been interviewed every 3 months i think. I don't know i think it depends on every mission president. How is everything going, are there things that you have begun to start doing with the missionares like that i dont know what i am trying to get at, but have to got like all you meetings worked out and set in stone and how to work them and everything or is that still in the process. How are both of you doing? Holding up mom, i know that the Lord really does bless you alot and he is always there.
Ha ha i was thinking of this the other day... you know how i wasn't obidient. like i hated that, and i always kinda wanted to do it my way and that everything would be alright and that i always told you to not worry about it. Ha ha right now, i hate when a missionary is not obident, and right now with my mission president, he is trying to help us increase our obidences so that we can recieve those miricles that are waiting. Cause the Lord has promised and has to bless us when we are doing what we are suppose to do. NOt always in the time we want or the way we want, but he has to bless you. Also there is a scripture in DC i think 58 that talks about how the Lord expects to be obiedient. And that he has created us to make our desicions and to do the right.
Well that is all for me this week, things are getting better, i still don't think i am teaching very well but that comes with time, and the help of the Lord. Thanks for all you do and keep up the good work!
Love,
Elder Pitt
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