So Family I just want you to know that I'm just fine here in the hood of Peoria and that I love yall so much.
We had a great exchange with the assistants this week where Elder Howard and i got to go out together and gather scattered Israel! It was great and we were able to find a family of 3 this past week and then later on in the week we taught another family of 3 with a total of 6 new investigators for the week. It made me happy and now it's time to follow up with all of them and get them on the path towards church and the waters of baptism.
Dedra and Hyland are doing great we're going to have them meet with the bishop and see if everything is lined up for their marriage and for baptism of Dedra. We aren't sure if Hyland is legally divorced from his first wife and so that may be a problem which will prevent her from reaching her date of October 13th. She wasn't able to make it to church yesterday which was a bummer. She just finished her last Sunday of community service hours and she will now have her Sundays free for church which is going to be great.
We had interviews with President Jergensen in the entire zone taking up all of Friday and half of Saturday and that was good to hear his training on Priesthood Keys being he only way to gather scattered Israel which is the purpose of the entire church and that is the missionary purpose as well. I felt a bit down on myself after an interview with him because I know that the zone is capable of so much more and a few trouble missionaries can ruin the whole flow of a district. Thank Goodness that this disease of a missionary will be going home on the 4th next month, and maybe just maybe we can get an entire district to start pulling their heads out and start getting some dates on the board.
Also we had a great lesson with a lady named Vaughn and she is asian and has a deep desire to learn of the church and to join it in the coming future. She is not capable to be baptized until she is married in May of next year and that's quite the ways out there so we asked if we could start teaching her kids and she had no problem with that and they seemed to like us and so we have more doors of oppurtunity coming our way.
Last night we put on a fireside for the youth in the stake and their parents on sharing the gospel with their friends. It was one of the funnest things that I've done as a missionary. The youth from Bloomington was there and so I got to get them all excited to follow up with their contacts and their friends especially. We taught much of it from the New Era of this month and had some great role plays with the youth about real situations that come up in their daily life and so it was fantastic. There were about 100 youth and some 60 parents there with the entire stake presidentcy and so it was a big deal. The youth were in groups of about 6 and the parents sat on the back in rows so that the youth didn't have to worry about their parents being over their shoulders and it was a successful night and I felt like a game show host up there. Speaking just comes naturally to me I guess....if I'm prepared that is.
TO answer some questions.... We were in a lesson a few weeks back and some hit our back bumper and put a scratch and dent in it so we had it in the shop for 6 days which as killer to our success in the area.
ET'd means Emergency Transfered and that's not a good thing..... He will be with us until zone conference on Wednesday... it's been hard to have him
My wife....... you'll just have to find out once December 31 comes around of 2013
Love ya
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