Dear Family\
I am so thankful for all the blessings that the Lord has been able to give to me and to Elder Herrin. This past week we were so busy that it wasn't even funny these were our numbers for the week 0 0 4 3 13 2/2 7 6 3 2 2 2 Never in all my mission have we had 13 member present lessons it was just flat out crazy fun. I've never had so much fun in the work of the Lord then what I've been experiencing here in Ames. I love it here the people of this ward and stake are great and they are so willing to help us out because we are here to work very very hard. Jared is all ready for baptism on Saturday and his good friend is going to baptize him. He's so excited and today we are going to go fit him for his clothing and get him comfortable with the font. Last night we were at the Stott's house and they were watching the super bowl and they paused it ( God bless DVR) and we filled out his baptismal record and we ate tons of wings and it was awesome and yes I didn't watch any football, but next year I'll be all over that football game.
We had a member from a neighboring branch bring a friend to church and he is a student at ISU and he's very interested in the gospel and so we taught the Gospel of Christ for Gospel Principles class and he just ate it up. We meet with Ben on Wednesday and will set a baptismal date on the first lesson. We were snowed in for 2 days out on exchanges in Marshalltown and that didn't let us get down on ourselves we just did all the phone work that you could imagine and the Lord blessed us wonderfully. Elder Herrin and I will be together for another 5 weeks. This next transfer is only a 5 week transfer due to all the missionary department changes. I hope that I can stay here for at least 2 more transfers because it's just an awesome place.
The Ward that we are in is a family ward and there's a bunch of YSA which is where a big majority of our investigators are coming from. If you do the work right then you never have to knock on doors. Elder Herrin and I haven't knocked on one door since we have been here, and we don't plan on doing any of that. There's just more work to do then that. You see we are teaching the members to do our job for us. We teach them how to study from PMG and when we are out of town 3 days a week then they need to be finding for us, and so far it's been working out pretty good. We are in the business of changing people ya see. If your going to be a leader you need to teach others how to be a leader and that's what we're doing with our missionaries and especially with the members. We're teaching members to be effective missionaries since we can't be there and we're not knocking doors to find people to teach so you find them for us and it's working just amazing. You see people changers need to be people recruiters and we're recruiting our members to be missionaries and our missionaries to be leaders in God's holy work.
I don't much time left but i do love everything that you all send. I'm doing just fine out here. We have a full time car so don't worry about me getting hit by a truck anytime soon, although I do want to hit some of the college students when they just go walking all over the place without any sense.
God's work is true because it's his work and God is true and the gospel is true and me being out here is true and just to let you know I don't want to come home I'm 17 months out and now and it's the worst thing to think about.
May God bless you in this great enterprise is my prayer Elder Gonzalez Ames 2nd
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