Dear Family
Today is a great day even though the wind chill outside has it at like 0 degrees..... I love Iowa and it's my home!!
SO this past week we were able to have 2 exchanges and it was great.. We have helped 2 areas get a game plan together and start working with members much better. Elder Herrin and I have been applying the principles for Abraham 4 into the work. We are organizing and creating everything spiritually before we actually go and do it. The Lord is blessing us so much and it's just amazing.
We have Alyssa all ready for baptism on Saturday so the Lord is just so good. She is a college student that we have been working with and we just had to most spiritual lesson of my mission with her and it was just amazing. Like Elder Maxwell said" you know more then you can say" that lesson was just too good to put in this email. We sat down and seriously just said like 50 words and it was amazing. So alyssa has been looking into the church for several months now and was just too scared to tell her parents about it who are thick catholics, and we just prayed like crazy and went in there and were just silent and the spirit was just there off the bat. After talking to her about her feelingsfor Christ, we just paused and then the member asked her " so do you believe the Book of Mormon is true"? and she just broke down and started crying like crazy. We were just crying all over the place. She said that she knew it was true with all her heart and so we said that she was ready for saturday and so she went home over the weekend and told her family. She was so nervous and she called us on the phone and we had a prayer with her on the phone and she went and told her parents. They still don't like it but she is so excited to be baptized. She's just great.
I love my mission
SO thank you so much for the package it was great and I have already eaten all the jerky. I love the cookies but I'm starting to get sick of desserts because every member that we eat with just piles on the brownies and ice cream blaah.
We had a Zone training meeting on Saturday and we had 2 investigators there who are getting ready for baptism in the couple. Who would've guessed that if you actually use the tools in Preach My Gospel that you can actually do the work in the Lord's way and have success. In PMG is says to invite investigators to come to district and zone conferences to role play with and it's amazing if you actually do it. We had 4 groups teaching at the same time. and they rotated every 15 minutes to another person to teach. It was like the MTC and it was amazing.
I hope that Austin is ready for a mission and that president chugg has really gotten into his soul. I would hate for any of my friends to return early from there missions. Devin just got transfered to his 2nd area and is white wash training for his 4th transfer.
Jared you may want to be aware of who your taking to school dances because I had dinner this past sunday with my prom date and it sucked. It's awakard trying to not show much emotion when she's sitting right next to you. SO the YSA put on a dinner for the missinaries and guess who had to sit right by me..... it's just weird so i have to remind myself that my eye is singel to the glory of God and that my heart is locked solid and only feels the spirit and a LOVE for the people not girls.
So i want to know how everyone is doing? I love y our letters and all but I want to know this next letter your experience from reading the Book of Mormon between now and Monday. I feel that everyone of you can have some great missionary experiences if you read the Book of Mormon and really focus on the chapters that focus on the Savior that it will come alive better. PMG page47 is a great place to start.
I love you all and will let you know how this week goes next week hahaha
ONe LovE Elder Gonzalez Ames Iowa
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