January 27th - I Love Being a Missionary!

Hola Familia,

It was so great to hear from you. We had stake conference this weekend.  It was a miraculous conference, tons of revelation received, and new insights on how missionary work should be done. One of the things that I liked the most was the five points on the Work of Salvation in the stakes and wards with the first one being member missionary work. I really liked how it is starting to get through that the members are the ones who can trust us so that we can give their friends and family the good news. 

This week was really great. We showed Hermanas Martin and Schmidt the restoration tour to help their investigators, less actives, and even reach out to the members. They had a hard day but after doing this tour the Hermanas feel that this would help their investigators progress, their less actives come back, and the members to have a drive for missionary work. On Thursday, we set up a plan of salvation tour to help our investigator Tibni. It is really cool and it helps you understand where you want to be in the Celestial kingdom and how we can get there.  On Saturday, there was an eight year old boy in our ward being baptized, and Tibni came to see it. She saw the look on the boy's face who was getting baptized and she was excited for him. She is really ready for her baptism and is on track with the word of wisdom. She hasn't drank coffee in a week.  We told her to keep this up and reminded her of all the blessings that it will bring to her. She is very excited for her baptismal day and she knows that this is the true church. 

We also did a Restoration tour with one of our other investigators named Mario and his two sons. We went through it and the spirit was there.  One day he will be ready to enter the waters of baptism. 

This week I have been studying in the Book of Acts and reading all about the ministry of Paul. It was so crazy the conversion story that he has and how he knew he had to act right then and there on what he experienced. I also was reading in Preach My Gospel on baptism and confirmation and working with the ward and stake leaders. Now that we have a new stake presidency it will be great to get to know them and to always extend our hand to them when they need our help. But when it come to having recent converts or less actives, the first priority is the ward/branch to help them out and then the missionaries. We now need to involve the members more than ever because us knocking on doors or visiting potentials just isn't the way to do it anymore. 

The mission has definitely opened up my eyes to being a better member missionary. I don't really have enough time to answer all your questions but you will get a snail mail this week. I will tell you what is happening with Tibni in my snail mail. Tell Blake that I wish him Happy Birthday and BTW does dad want anything for his 50th, party? 

I love yall and I will always pray for you!

have a wonderful day and week!!!! :) ;)