So many things to do. Not enough time to do them all. That is why this week has been crazy! Even today will be a little short because of the mid-departing missionaries that go into the mission home tonight.
Our week started off with MLC on tuesday. Our mission has been focusing a ton on the really heavy stuff when it comes to missionary work -- Planning, working with members, setting goals, etc. -- So for this MLC we focused on increasing our own personal testimonies and then letting that affect our work and the attitudes of the other missionaries around us. Elder Allsop and I gave a training on how we can keep the culture alive of using the Book of Mormon as a prime conversion tool. It was a good spirit filled meeting. It was also really good to talk about because our mission is about to get an influx of a bajillion missionaries, and we want to keep our mission culture alive.
We had exchanges with Omak and Othello this past week, and they were both crazy. Omak was crazy because they made the 4 1/2 hour drive to us for the first time ever, and Othello was just a crazy mess because our time was so full of "stuff" that we couldn't do it all. A bunch of Mexicans also put together a huge barbeque for Elder Allsop to celebrate his return to his old area, so that put us even further behind schedule. Both were really busy and fun though!
We had some incredible lessons this last week. Laurette has been progressing pretty well! We gave her a church tour with one of our favorite members, Sister Ferris, who is a recent convert of about a year. Missionaries found her when they knocked on her door and introduced her to family history -- Just like Laurette! She did an excellent job of walking her through the newness of it all and was just a great missionary. We're glad we have her to help us teach!
Matt Palmer is on the home stretch! He gets married this Saturday and then baptized on the 19th. It has been a great week with him. We had several lessons with just him last week to prepare him for everything that is about to follow. It has been one of the coolest experiences of my life teaching him. I remember a year ago on exchanges teaching him his 2nd or 3rd lesson on how he can quit smoking, and now, a year later, he has dropped everything that could possibly hold him back from the blessings of the gospel. Yesterday he even bore his testimony in church, and it was so powerful. He was so nervous, but he described his experience of the missionaries knocking on his door for the first time to where he is today. I wish all of you could hear his testimony. He is so converted. He was ready several months ago to get baptized, he just had to wait to get married to Sarah. Even though he was ready then, he has shown that you can never stop progressing. After church 2 weeks ago, he was proud to show us his 3 foot stack of Movies that he's decided to throw out because they aren't a great influence on his family. He also accepted the challenge to memorize Mosiah 2:41 with us and recited it word for word from memory yesterday. I have seriously loved teaching Matt. The gospel changes lives.
Hopefully this email makes sense. We're pretty tired, but it feels good to be exhausted in the service of God!
Peace and blessings,
Elder Moser
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| Sushi with the Spanish District -- Before and After. Someone secretly paid for ALL of our sushi before we left. May that man inherit eternal life. |
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