Happy New Year everyone! This week was awesome!
On Monday, we were really limited on our miles so we just picked up the Sand Creek elders and played volleyball at the Murray building with members of the sand creek ward. It was good because we tried to get people who actually knew how to play volleyball there. We had a good competitive game and it was great:) afterwards, we went and saw Mitch and helped him get some family names to get ready for the temple.
On Tuesday, we got picked up by Bishop Obenchain and Mitch to drive up to the temple to do baptisms!! It was a beautiful drive up to the Denver temple and it was so awesome to be there for Mitch. I got to be the one to baptize him and I also did a couple baptisms with Elder Hawkins. Usually, in our mission, you only go to the temple at your halfway mark and at the end of your mission. But this is already the 3rd time I've gotten to go! Once in the summer, once in the fall, and now once in the winter! What made it extra special was that it was my 5 month mark that day too! We drove home and Mitch absolutely loved it. We had a good lesson with the Krings that night and wet to bed pooped.
On Wednesday, we had a lot of lessons scheduled and met some new people that just moved into the ward. Then we met one of our new investigators, Chris, at the McDonalds and taught him about the restoration there. He seems genuinely interested, and we are hoping that he keeps up the desire to learn more about the gospel.
On Thursday, it was New Years Eve and we weren't allowed to do any stop bys or cold contacting. So we did our weekly planning and went and taught a lesson to a less active member about tithing. For dinner, we went to the Williams house and had elk roast from the elk that Sister Williams killed in the fall. It was great:)
On Friday, we were in the same situation as Thursday and could only go to planned appointments. We had a lot of those cancel on us though. So we had District Meeting and learned a lot from each other. This meeting I focused on the importance of commitments. This is what I came up with: Commitment leads to action. Action leads to understanding. Understanding leads to revelation. Revelation leads to faith. Faith leads to conversion. Conversion leads to endurance. Endurance leads to salvation. Salvation leads to ETERNAL JOY. This is what we want for those we teach when we extend invitations and commitments is for them to have a reason to have joy each day. After District meeting, since we couldn't do any missionary work, Elder Tu'ifua taught us how to play rugby in the church gym and we did a 2 on 2 game for a little while:) (dont worry mom it was touch rugby). Then went and played baseball with Elder Stark and Elder Tu'ifua.
On Saturday, we helped a lady move into the 3rd ward from the Sand Creek ward and that took forever to get done.
Sunday was a great day because we had our new investigator, Chris come to church! He stayed for all 3 blocks and thought it was wonderful! We got to teach him in Gospel Principles class too. There were 11 less actives that showed up to church today and that was such a great miracle:) That night, we took Chris and Mitch to the Work of Salvation Fireside. This is where recent converts are asked to bear testimony of their conversion and then the pulpit is opened for others to share their testimony. Nothing brings in the spirit better than pure testimony and the spirit was rich. Chirs really liked it and said that he felt the heat in his heart that night. It was wonderful. So that night, I was reporting the statistics of my district to the zone leaders and they commended me on my leadership. They said that our district alone has as many progressing less active members and less active members at church as the entire Colorado Springs stake!! It just shows how much the Lord is a part of our everyday lives and work:)
It's been a great week and I love you all!
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Colorado Springs, CO
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