Well,
just like that it's been another week. Man, it's weird how quickly time
goes by. It's been a great week! Time is certainly not going slowly.
There were a lot of spiritual outpourings this week. We were down in
Richmond for mission council earlier this week, and it was an amazing
experience. For the year 2014, the mission set a goal for 2014 convert
baptisms, which is probably 5 times the number of baptisms that we'll
have this year. The work is hastening! The faith of the missionaries in
the council was just awesome. In the Canada Vancouver mission, we've
started to find more new investigators in a one year period than there
are members in the province.
This
weekend, Kelly got baptized! (Toni's is now for December 15th) It was a
beautiful baptismal service. Kelly really was a miracle. The highlight
of the service was her testimony at the end. She stood up and bore a
brief testimony of the Book of Mormon and the spiritual power that she
can find in the pages, and then she talked about how her entire life she
has been searching for the truth, and has explored tons of different
churches, but "3 weeks ago the missionaries knocked on my door, came
back the next day, and I've known that I have found the truth ever
since". She's such an awesome convert. It really has been a blessing to
have taught her.
Okay. I
wish I had all the time in the world to write down all of the crazy
spiritual experiences that we have every week. One of them... so,
President Tilleman promised us that if we do everything that we can
every day, we will be able to find at least one new investigator every
day. One day we went all day without finding anyone in between our
teaching appointments, and we just kept on thinking of that promise and
we were questioning if we had done "everything" that we could have that
day. We ended up finding our new investigator that day at 8:56 as I was
backing up Elder Baker (fun missionary safety rule) so we could pull out
of our parking spot and drive to the apartment for the evening. This
guy walked by the vehicle, and so I stopped him, and Elder Baker got out
of the vehicle and we ended up teaching him a lesson right on the spot
there.
Last night, we had our FLDS investigator to the
Christmas Devotional. She loved it. It's amazing to realize that we have
a living prophet on the earth today, who can give us messages directly
from Heavenly Father. What a blessing that would be for the whole world,
if they would just listen to the message that we share. It's made me
reflect on the blessings that the gospel brings to those who actually
apply it in their lives. Every day we're on the streets and getting
glimpses into people's homes. And guess what? People need the gospel! In
conference, Elder Ballard committed the whole church to "reach out to
just one" with love as a gift to the Saviour. I hope that everybody
remembers to do so! It won't go unnoticed by those watching from Heaven.
Well, Merry Christmas, everybody! Happy birthday
next week, Mother! I guess next P-day will be the 16th so there will be
another email then, but still! Sorry, this email might be short! We have
a baptismal interview that we have to conduct that we need to get to!
Love you all lots!
Elder Blotter
PS-
One of the pictures is us and Kelly.
In
the other one, Steven Rasmussen (who is doing great over in Ontario and
still going strong since his baptism,) is in between me and Elder
Baker. Drunk Tim (still a work in progress) is on the end.
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