It was a great week this week,
we got our new baby!! His name is Elder Shepherd and he is from Alpine Ut. He graduated in 2013 from Lone Peak. He is our age and he knows the Card
family! He is awesome, great spirit about him. We all get along great and
he is ready to work. He has that greeny fire and isn't afraid to talk
with anyone so its been fun to get back into the training mode. It's been
quite a bit due to the fact of still being ZL's and having to train. We
just hope we don't burn him out too fast! He has been pretty tired so it's
been fun to mess with him!
But
that's fun that y'all get to plan another wedding while I'm out here. It's
sad that I won't be there but I wish the best for them. And I can't wait
to watch all the old home videos when we were kids. It's crazy how fast
time moves and you don't know what to do about it.
Anyways...
this week was great even though it was slowed down tremendously due to
the weather. They hyped everything up over here and they thought the
whole city was going to freeze over so nobody wanted to meet with us so
it was a little difficult but we still had a lot of good things and
hopefully we are finally finished with the cold and start seeing some
sunshine. But we had a pretty cool miracle this week. Robert and his
Nephew David came to church this week. Robert has been coming for forever
but this was Davids 2nd time and he has been progressing really fast. We
are just working on the word of wisdom with him. But he leaned over to
me and asked if he could get up and bear his testimony and so he went up
and gave the most spiritual testimony of how meeting with us and all
the church members he has met that we have brought over have changed his
life and he told all the members that they were a pillar of light in this
dark world we are living in! It was so awesome!! He is amazing. It was a
great way to end the week!
oh
and I have been still keeping up with my Jesus study as much as I can
its going great I'm loving it. I'm really hoping I can finish it by the
time I get home. But keep reading that book and let me know where you
are next week! Love you and miss you and have a great week! |
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| The Conyers Zone |
March 9, 2015....
That's
awesome that you've read through chapter 3 and the book just gets better and
better. Some of the stories and ideas that he shares are so inspiring and
just makes you want to be a missionary for your whole life but that's the cool thing, we can! And that's so cool about Mike and his family. I feel like I don't know too much about their family but
tha'ts awesome that dad has been able to do missionary work with them and
share his testimony and God works in mysterious ways so maybe all this
stuff is happening for a reason for them to become humble and have an
open heart about everything.
I'm sorry that I really don't have too much from this week because you are
right, we had a lot of meetings this week so we didn't have that much time
in our own area but the time that we did have was super effective. We
got an investigator named Edward on date for March 28 and he is
so smart. He has been studying religions for 10 years and has a
photographic memory! So everything we leave with him he just soaks it
all up. He came to church for the first time and loved it. And due to
how smart he is after sacrament he came up to us and said how does the
succession of the presidency in the church work?? haha I don't know how
the man grasps all of the knowledge he does but he is super solid and we
are excited for him. But mission council was great, its good to see all
of the other zone leaders and yes its with the sister training leaders. Then the reason why it feels so close is because our last zone
conference was super delayed due to all the weather. But it was good we
combined with 2 other zones and did some great training. That was my
week, nothing crazy, we are excited to have a normal week this week!
March 16, 2015.....
MY WEEK THIS WEEK WAS SOOOOO CRAZY!! #MIRACLES
About my week this week, let me tell you how amazing God is when he
sends you someone who is so prepared and ready to listen to the message!
Sammy Dunbar!! she is 60 and the sweetest Georgia Peach grandma you
could ever ask for! She is amazing. She has been searching the past few
years for churches everywhere to find somewhere where she can be
comfortable. About 15 years ago she lived in Arizona and knew some
mormons that she worked for and really loved them but never showed
interest. So 2 weeks ago she had a strong impression to meet with
the mormons and ask questions because she couldn't find any other church that
fit her. So she left a note on our church door and one of the members
called us and gave us her number we called her last Sunday and set up to
meet with her on Monday. And here is where miracles happen. We teach her at
the church with a member about the restoration, she agrees on everything
we say and accepts a date to be baptized on March 28th!! Then we meet
with her on Tuesday at the church and read 2 Nephi 31 and talk about the
gospel of Christ. Then we meet on Wednesday, she reads the Plan of
salvation pamphlet we gave her so she taught us the plan of
salvation!!! Then she comes to our Ward Party on Friday and has an
amazing time and connected really well with the relief society president
and was telling everyone she is joining the church on March 28th! Then
we teach her the word of wisdom on Saturday and she accepts it and is
willing to drop everything! She comes to church on Sunday and loves it. We taught her last night in a members home about the Book of Mormon and
tonight we are going to have a FHE in another members home!! Can you
say MIRACLE!!! SHE IS AMAZING! we are so excited for her and we are
grateful to just be here to help her on her journey. and we know its
because we have been exactly obedient!
So
that has been my amazing story this week! Some other fun things, we went on
exchanges with Elder Mcdonald-smith this week. He is from London and sat
next to me on the plane coming here so it was great to be with him and
we hit 23 member present lessons this week! And with Presidnent Harding we talked about finishing strong and making sure
everything was in order in going home. But I did find out the exact
release date for me, it will be June 3rd! so a little later than we
thought but that's ok it gives me more time:)
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| A Southern St Patty's day |
March 23, 2015.....
ahhhh i cant believe you
already got the email from the mission office... it doesn't seem real!
and surprisingly i just have no time to think about going home cause we
have way to much stuff we have been juggling the past few weeks. So it
has been really nice. But that's super cool y'all are gonna have a foreign
exchange student at the house for a week. And that's awesome to hear about Obe! Tell him good luck for me.
This week has been Great!! Sammy Dunbar is amazing! We were able to
teach her 5 days this past week and she came to both sessions of Stake
Conference and she is just realizing she is the driest mormon ever! She
is super excited to do family history work too so we are so excited for
her and she is gonna be baptized on Saturday!! She is so awesome and we
promised her we would come back here after our missions and go skydiving
with her cause she has done 176 jumps!! crazy! And as well, our
investigator David Jackson is preparing to be baptized this week. He is
progressing very well and we are hoping we can get him in the water as
well! This week we had Stake Conference and it was awesome cause we had
Elder Zwick there and they had a special YSA fireside and we got David to
come and he was able to meet and talk with Elder Zwick and we were able
to meet him and have a good chat with him. He is a great man! We have had just a lot of member support in
teaching with us and letting us teach in their homes. We taught over 20
member present lessons again this week so it has been amazing and our
zone right now is killing it. We are on track to baptize 10 people next
week!! And just another cool side note, one of our investigators signed
with a record label this week! So be looking out for him his name is
Rusty, he is a country singer with a soul voice of a black man!
It
has been so much fun though working our butts off everyday and being so
pooped at the end of the day. It really shows if you work hard to the
very end you will see miracles. and we have seen so many in our own area
this week as well through the zone and its amazing!
March 30, 2015.....
CRAZIEST WEEK!! So much
happened and I will try and fit it all in this email but I don't have too
much time. First off that is so great that Jefferson got his mission call. I can't
believe he is already going on a mission!! Time goes by way to fast
when you're not home. and hopefully he gets to preach to all of our
family! And yes I'm soooo stoked for General Conference!! It doesn't feel
like its already time to come. but I'm super stoked. Its weird to think
that It'll be my last one and I will definitely cherish every minute and
get as much revelation possible!
But
the Big News is Sammy Dunbar and David Jackson are now members of the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints!!! Their baptism was so
awesome we actually had 4 baptisms in the ward/ The sisters had 2
baptisms as well! And the one who baptized David was only baptized 2
months ago and got the priesthood 2 weeks ago!! it was so cool! David
locked up like a board so it was kinda sketchy but he got him down first
try and that's all that matters! haha Its been amazing to watch the
growth of David quit all his addictions and change so fast and to see Sammy
grasp on to all the doctrine so quick! There are prepared people
everywhere! I also went on exchanges this with Elder Hope over in
Snellville and that was a blast. He served in Carrollton after I did
so we got to talk about everybody so it was a good time. We also put a
new investigator on date to be baptized and he is BLIND! He is so funny
and super prepared and has read the Book of Mormon before hebecame blind! But he said something super funny that I will use for the rest of my
life, he said "all we gotta do is just hop on that Jesus Bus and ride it
on back to Heaven!" so that's what I'm doin! Hopping on that Jesus Bus!! We also have a mission council lined up for this week. We are going
to hike Kennesaw mountain and visit some historical civil war sites!! Its gonna be awesome!
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