Elder Child is a Trainer!

July 15, 2013

So this week has been full of some ups and some downs. It was a little bit slow this week, but all things in the Lord's time. Anyway we are really trying to continue to help the L.A and find new Inv. we were able to find a new one last night and the Willard's are still doing good we weren't able to teach them this week but we have an appt. and a dinner set up for next week with them. Hopefully we will continue to see success and find those people that the Lord has prepared. As far as the guy in his 20's it wasn't going to go anywhere so we dropped him. We have a ton of potentials right now and hopefully this week we can change those into investigators. It will take the Lord guiding us what to say and his spirit touching them but i know that it can be done. We have also started to see some success with Member this one family in particular has really been helping us out and they know a bunch of people that we can teach so hopefully we can work with them to begin teaching them. The other low part other than it being slow has been the  humidity. The other day we went and tried to meet some people at a big community yard we didn't have any luck but it was early in the morning and probably around 60 degrees and the humidity was so high I was sweating from just standing there it was pretty miserable. But just another joy of being a missionary.

Last night was a pretty exciting one. Call outs came in and almost everyone in the zone is being transferred. I will be staying and I will also become a trainer. I will be training a new missionary. I am excited but nervous for this task. Hopefully I can share what little knowledge I have with him and I will just have to rely on the Lord to do the rest. I know if I turn to him he will help me prepare this new missionary and finish preparing myself.
 I will really learn to rely on the spirit for this one. It just kind of made me think through of some of the stuff that is in my patriarchal blessing and some of the things I heard in the MTC about being a leader that I told you about. I guess I can see those things starting to take shape. Keep your fingers crossed that they don't call me as DL though we just lost ours and I don't think I am ready to take that one on yet. Well any ways the work will continue to progress, I have been working extremely hard at trying to be obedient and have seen the blessings that come from it. Continue to read from the BOM and to pray every day and night. I challenged Sarah and I want to challenge Ben, Mom and Dad and everyone else to read through the BOM from cover to cover by the end of the year. I know the blessings that come from studying the scriptures and the joy and the happiness that can be felt as we do. The Lord will bless us for studying them and we will see the evidence of it in our lives.

Anyways got to go. I love you all. Hope all continues to go well you are all in my prayers and i appreciate the love and support.

July 8, 2013

Well everything is going pretty well down here. The weather has been crazy and hot but we have made it through it alright. I am glad that you didn't open the package and I hope you like it. I thought that it looked like you but I wasn't sure. Sounds like y'all had a awesome turn out at the breakfast. I was doing the same thing that you were doing. Our ward had a big pancake breakfast and I probably made around 400 pancakes. It was pretty fun. Then later that night I got to go over to the lady's house that I told you about and we watched some fireworks there it was pretty cool. Her neighbor did them. Out here in West Virginia they can do the huge ones like the cities do all they need is like a $25 dollar permit. So that was fun. The rest of the week went pretty good. We have to solid investigators Donald and Brenda Willard they are so cool they are in their 50's and have awesome faith in Jesus and in God. They are pretty much already members. Sounds like Ben sure knows how to ball.... NOT haha you know I am just teasing. I missed not seeing an email from him today. Have him send me a letter or something this week. I have lost like 13 pounds I guess from walking and riding my bike so much. And all my clothes still fit me well so i am fine there. Today I got to go fishing on the Potomac. I caught about 25 blue gills no cats or bass though. That was way fun, me and another elder ate a worm so the sisters would buy us ice cream. It was disgusting but it was worth it. Sounds like that you guys are having a pretty fun summer now to answer questions:

 

I haven't heard anything about transfers, I will let you know if I do.

 

Overall though everything is going pretty good. We are still trying to find more people and help them feel the love that Heavenly Father has for them. Hopefully the work will  continue forward. Thanks for the last package. I love you so much. I hope that everything is going well. Sounds like you guys are having a fun summer. I love you all. And i love you a ton Mom.

 

Love

      Elder Child.

July 1, 2013

Well this week has been an array of weather. We started out this week very hot around 85 or 90 but with the humidity I'm sure it was much higher. I still am not used to it and don't think that I ever will be. I would much rather have the dry heat.

   We had a good week. We didn't meet with as many people because we were on foot. We were out of miles in the car and the part for my bike just came today. So we were doing a lot of sweating and a couple days it rained in the afternoon so we got a little bit wet as well. But the work must go forward. We saw a couple of less actives. We are becoming close friends with them but we haven't been able to find out what is holding them back from church. Hopefully the spirit will touch them and remind them of how they felt when they went. Speaking of church. I spoke yesterday. All four of us in the Hedgesville ward spoke. It was cool to have all of us speaking. We were really trying to focus on member missionary work but most of the members seemed uninterested or asleep so not sure how well the message got through. We now have 3 investigators. 2 of them are married they are awesome they are in there 50's and have amazing faith in God and Jesus Christ they just haven't found a church they felt welcome at so hopefully we can get them to experience ours and hopefully they will feel welcome. The other one is in his late 20's he likes sports and hunting so we have a pretty good connection with him. Family is huge in his life and he grew up catholic so we will see how that goes. We are going over tomorrow to teach him and then we are going to play basketball with him with some members from the ward. It was cool to see this success. Hopefully it will continue but I know the Lord's hand is guiding us and we just have to be patient and work hard and be obedient and he will take care of the rest.

 

I urge you to remember that we are all children of God and that an invitation to hear that gospel that comes from a love of the people and of Jesus Christ will never come across as pushing or judgmental. So do all you can to help them feel those same blessings that we all have felt from the gospel. I know you guys will I just want to encourage you because I know how much have friends and family in the gospel and having them share their testimony can really impact someone.

 Sounds like you guys are having a great summer. Continue to spend time together as a family and keep up the work on the scripture study. I hope you guys got the pictures I sent. Today I went to some outlets in Hagerstown Maryland. I went to a Nike store and you would be impressed, I walked out empty handed can't say the same for the UA store. I got a nice pair of shorts and they were only 15 bucks. Then I got to watches. My watch broke the night before i left the MTC. They were 20 each but the one was originally 65 and the other was 130 so it was a steal. So I did spend some money but they were smart purchases.

 

 I hope all is going well back home. Hopefully I covered everything. Sound like you had an awesome time a camp Helaman. I love you all and I pray for you always. I hope all my email are coming through alright. The pictures that mom and Sarah sent didn't come trough not sure why. Sounds like they had an awesome experience at the temple. It was crazy to hear that Emily was there. Time really does fly. Doesn't seem like she is 12 yet. I hope everything continues to go well. I love you all so much. Thanks for the love and support and the prayers as well. I will continue to reply to everyone's email. I hope they all come through from my end let me know if they don't and I will condense them into one so that they will. I love you all you guys are always in my prayers. I love you all.