July 11, 2011

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Hey Family,

 

This week was great. We were able to get a lot of stuff done,  even tho I had food poisoning, all went well. Plainfield is just amazing, the area itself is really awesome, it reminds me a lot of Arco.  With out the mountain's and such. We so a lot of work here. I was able to go on an exchange with my district leader this week. We saw some amazing miracles. Oh it was amazing. We started off the exchanges by doing some service hours at a old peoples home. We played cards with them and talked about the church the whole time.  It was truly amazing. We also had an opportunity to do some tracting on the exchange. We saw miracles while we were doing so. We tracted into a guy that was not to interested in the gospel and when we started to walk away, I noticed that the guy had 2 jeeps in his front yard. I felt prompted to just hold the door and to just start talking to this guy about jeeps and rock crawling and all that good stuff. As I did, this the guys prospective totally changed, he was more open and more willing to talk to us. As a result we were able to have a short lesson about the restoration, it was amazing. I was able to relate jeeping to the gospel and how we have to endure all things that God puts in our path and kinda like a train with boulders and trees. We definitely felt the spirit and we were able to help him in some way. It was amazing. Later that same night, we continued to do some tracting and we tracted into a guy that readily let us in and wanted to talk to us. At first he was really sincere and left the room to get some water. Some time later he came back and said that his friend would be joining us. Well. his friend arrived and just wanted to bash with us. I was ready to bash. Instead we just bore sincere testimony about the things that we knew to be true and it turned out to be a great lesson, even tho they tried to preach and convert us the spirit wasn't with them as they talked but was there when we spoke. It was just great, it straightened my testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel. This gospel has changed my life. I love it so much. I am very grateful for this time that I have to serve my Savior and my Heavenly Father. It's truly the best thing ever. As for my own area, it has been kinda slow, not too much has been happening. We were able to attend a "Why I believe" fire side last night in my last area with Bob Vaught. It was great for him to hear all the testimonies of all the recent converts in this state it touched him well. This week he has been struggling with his family, we have the strongest impression that his mom is not doing well. Last night after our companionship prayers, Elder Wise and I at the same time said to each other that we have to teach Bob the plan of salvation again and to put an emphasis on the part where we can do stuff for family that is passed on and also to explain that family's can be together for ever.
 A totally great experience that we had to have the spirit confirm that to the both of us at the same time. We also have an investigator Gabby, I have yet to meet her, she went to California on a trip and visited the San Diego temple and has been reading every day and praying every day she explained to us over the phone that she had goals to enter the temple and other great goals for her in this life. She is 17 and her mother is sceptical about her joining the church but she really wants to.  It will be something that will bless her life tho. All in all this week has been one of the best weeks that I have had and definitely one of the most spiritual  have been in my life. i love you all i am grateful that for all you letters. but please stop reminding me that I have already been out a year. Its gone by too fast.

Love you all