December 12, 2011

Hey Mom,

How are things going? Things here are ok... I am getting transferred, and Elder Tatton is becoming a trainer, he is super duper nervous. But he will do fine. This week was amazing we got a lot of things accomplished. Elder Tatton has been super sick this week so we have had to spend a couple days inside... no bueno, I was loosing my mind. I really think that I have ADD kinda bad, well at least I think that I do. This week was fun, and really busy, we were able to do some amazing lessons, first off we had lesson with a Cop, that was reffered by a member cop it was pretty fun! We also had dinner with him, we were super nervous because we had tracted in to this guy and he wasnt to nice. But the evening was amazing, he is a big time hunter so we hit it off and it really set the tone for the lesson. We also had a lesson with Nathan and his family, It is super frustrating!! They are kinda lazy, we have to post pone Nathans baptism because the family wont bring him to church and arn't willing to let him get a ride to church, so it kinda bothers us that we have to post pone it. We had a lesson with Cami it was great she is super prepared for the gospel. She is sill on tract for baptism we had a great lesson and it was very spiritual and was very helpful for her, when in the lesson she had some of the most thought provoking questions that were amazing, when we answsered them she was just in awe and the spirit testified to her. it was great. We also had a sweet lesson with Lindsey it was super great. we also had her go to a "Why I Believe" fireside last night with President and Sister Collins and she got up and prepared her testiomony and gave it, it was amazing. her testimony is just so sincere and so pure it just made my day!! It has just been a great week. We also had an opprutunity to to do some service at Strides, we helped with a christmas activity  that they put on every year and we helped with that, it was really fun, we got asked alot about our church, that place is turning into a gold mine, 4 of the people that we do service with have taking a sincere intrest in the gospel this last week and are really amazing. I am really going to miss plainfield a lot I have a lot of really sweet memories here.

So last night at the Why I believe fireside one of my recent converts from eagle creek spoke. I cried, I now know why I only served 1 transferr there. As he spoke he bore solid testimony of how in one lesson that Elder Bellistone and I had found a concern about Joseph Smith that he had and we broke down and bore solid and sincire testimony of the prophet and as we did this he felt the spirit and he had found his anwser. I didnt know of this until last night, last month he under went the covenent of baptism. and be shared great love that he had for Elder Bellistone and I. I have been doing a lot of reflecting on that, and it had been a humbling experence for me to really think how a sincere testimony can invite the spirit to have an eternal conversion. I love this gospel and this work. Ilove it because of the Joy and the Happiness that it has broght into my life. I love you all and thanks for everything! Happy holidays