Shorty

Hey Everyone! We had such a busy week that today, which is P-Day, we're gonna spend most of the day relaxing. Nothing really exciting happened. We got to have District Meeting in a cave. Well, it wasn't really a cave, but it was still really cool. I'm still loving it. I'm sorry that I don't have much to say beyond that. We are very successful. Ha ha, I love you all and wish you all the best! Elder Call

Explaining

Hey Everyone! I guess I say that I'm seeing a lot of miracles, and I'm being kinda vague as to what those are. Let me explain. Sometimes I see really little things happen that I consider miracles, and sometimes I see super huge things happen. One of those huge things is a new investigator we picked up. We knocked on her door, found out she was best friends with her Mormon next door neighbors, and we started teacher her at her house. The first lesson we decided to talk about The Gospel of Jesus Christ, or Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end. We talked about this because we decided that this might be the only thing that would interest her. When we started talking about baptism, without us inviting her to be baptized, she said, "Well, I've already been baptized, but I think I need to be rebaptized." At that point we invited her, and the lady who's house we were at said, and I paraphrase a little, "WHOA, slow down, you need to know what you are getting into," ect. But she wasn't scared away by that and she still accepted to be baptized. The next time we talked about the restoration. The lesson before we had given her a Book of Mormon, but, due to time, we hadn't really explained what it was or asked her to pray about it. So, we end the lesson, she says it makes sense to her, we talk a bit more and she pulls out her Book or Mormon and a notebook. She tells us that whenever she reads the Bible, she prays so that god will help her to understand what she is reading. She also asks him to open up the Bible to what she needed to hear at that time. She opened up to some Psalm, which she read and just felt this amazing feeling, I had no idea how she got to this conclusion, but she said that the Psalm had been talking about us, the missionaries, and she said that she had decided that what we were talking about was true. She also said that she had read the first six capters of the Book of Mormon. The next time we talked about the Plan of Salvation, and she said, "This is the first time this has ever made sense to me!" Dang, she is the best. So there is my miracle story for the week. I love you all! Elder Call

more miracles

Hey Everyone! I guess I say that I'm seeing a lot of miracles, and I'm being kinda vague as to what those are. Let me explain. Sometimes I see really little things happen that I consider miracles, and sometimes I see super huge things happen. One of those huge things is a new investigator we picked up. We knocked on her door, found out she was best friends with her Mormon next door neighbors, and we started teacher her at her house. The first lesson we decided to talk about The Gospel of Jesus Christ, or Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the end. We talked about this because we decided that this might be the only thing that would interest her. When we started talking about baptism, without us inviting her to be baptized, she said, "Well, I've already been baptized, but I think I need to be rebaptized." At that point we invited her, and the lady who's house we were at said, and I paraphrase a little, "WHOA, slow down, you need to know what you are getting into," ect. But she wasn't scared away by that and she still accepted to be baptized. The next time we talked about the restoration. The lesson before we had given her a Book of Mormon, but, due to time, we hadn't really explained what it was or asked her to pray about it. So, we end the lesson, she says it makes sense to her, we talk a bit more and she pulls out her Book or Mormon and a notebook. She tells us that whenever she reads the Bible, she prays so that god will help her to understand what she is reading. She also asks him to open up the Bible to what she needed to hear at that time. She opened up to some Psalm, which she read and just felt this amazing feeling, I had no idea how she got to this conclusion, but she said that the Psalm had been talking about us, the missionaries, and she said that she had decided that what we were talking about was true. She also said that she had read the first six capters of the Book of Mormon. The next time we talked about the Plan of Salvation, and she said, "This is the first time this has ever made sense to me!" Dang, she is the best. So there is my miracle story for the week. I love you all! Elder Call

Miracles

Hey Everyone! We saw some miracles this week. It was really, really cool. It was roasting hot over here, we were happy when we saw the thermometer hit 99, ha ha. We were also happy when we saw like 4 drops of rain hit our windshield, but I guess we've hit our quota until next year, because that was all we got. I'm loving things up here, as always. But I've talked about that enough for now I think. So here is a deep spiritual thought for you. When some people fall away from the Gospel, they might think to themselves, "Well, I'm just not going to endure. I'm too weak." BUT, when they do that, they aren't choosing to not endure, they are just choosing what they are going to endure, does that make sense? Another missionary pointed that out to me. I thought it was interesting. Sadly we have to deal with people not enduring to the end all the time. Transfers are rolling around the bend already! It seems like I took the 5 hour drive from Burbank just yesterday. I called my old companion yesterday and apparently they are still hanging on to the people I found in my long 5 months there. Well, actually they closed down my area due to a shortage of misisonaries and combined it with the area of the Sister missionaries. They are usually better at everything, so I'm sure the people I know and love are in good hands. Well, I better go clean my apartment. I think my MIssion President is going to inspect it one of these days, ha ha.

He teared up...

Hey Everybody! This week was interesting. This area is so far away from everything the whenever there is a zone conference or temple trip or anyhthing, we have to make it a two day trip and stay the night at another missionaries pad. Which is fun, but it hinders us a little bit. Every week this transfer we've had to do that. Last week it was because we were saying goodbye to the old mission pres, President Martin. He gave us a training that he usually gives to the departing missionaries on how to make money and get married. It made me a little trunky, ha ha. But at the end of the training we sang the song "God be with you till we meet again", #152. I wrestled for 5 years and never cried. I worked at a stone factory for 5 months, and never cried. Incidentally there was a guy there that cried every friday. They say that I didn't cry a whole lot when I was a baby. But as we were saying the prayer in that training, I started sniffling and tearing up. I'm gonna miss that guy a lot. He was a true man of God, and we all loved him. But things are still going good in this area. I hope I get to stay for a good, long time. Also, on Saturday as we were eating dinner, we got a call from a memeber of the Branch, who said that we needed to drive about 20 minutes and give this lady a blessing. So we did, and we talked to this lady who had been broke down in this little town in the middle of nowhere, who also happened to be having some health problems. She told us that she went to the gas station and asked the attendant if he knew any Mormons. The attendant was the guy who called us, which is pretty crazy considering that there are not many in that town and she was the first person she talked to. My compaion gave her the sweetest, most spiritual blessing ever. He didn't know anything about her but nailed down a couple of other things she was worried about the didn't have to do with her health. Apparently she got better after that. It was a really cool expirience. But anyway, I wish you all the best!

What's gonna work?

Hey guys! I don't have a whole lot of time to write this, so I'll put the most important things first. We had a Zone Basketball Tournament, and guess who's team won almost every match? Yeah that's right, the one I was on. I'm pretty proud. Things are still hopping up here. I still love it. With the help of God, we may baptize some people. Interestingly enough, apparently, they were about to close this area because nothing was happening. I saw in my area book that things really picked up as soon as the missionary before me came up. The improvement was so drastic that I called him to find out what he did to make such a difference. He told me that just before he had been sent home curtesy of a broken foot, and that expirience humbled him a lot. He said that all he did was be humble and rely on the Lord. Not exactly what I was expecting, and I'm sure it was more than that, but I guess there is a good life lesson in there. I hope you all take it to heart. REPENT!!!!!!! Ha ha, just kidding. I love you all! Elder Call