February 6, 2016

New Month!

Awkward missionary pose, hehe

MOMMA!!!

Sorry for the nurse scaring you hehe, my retainer just has a wire poking me so I was going to get it removed, hope thats ok, I'm not sure how to get the bill sent to you, but I will try for sure! We have one investigator on date and a new investigator that wants to be baptized and we will give her a date when we teach her on Tuesday!! So things are going pretty good in our area! We have transfers on Tuesday also so I get a new companion because Elder Jones is leaving! My new comp is Elder Tackett who was in my same district in SF so I'm super excited for that!

We had a pretty good fast and testimony meeting with the Spanish and YSA wards, I just shared an experience that had happened this past week while elder jones and i were tracting, we ran into this lady and we kind of did our intro and she told us she was Christian, she then asked what church we were from again, and I said the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, but a lot of people know us as Mormons, she then said, oh so you believe the opposite of what I believe. We cleared up some stuff about our beliefs as latter day saints but she still wasn't very interested. It just makes me think how many people out there don't know our beliefs or even the correct name of our church. How many people think we don't believe or worship Christ. So I guess my invitation is just to spread the gospel with those that don't know what were about, and there are many ways to do that, explaining some simple beliefs, being an example to others, and service. Mosiah 2:17 says, "When you are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God (or something like that)." 

Oh and speaking of Clara one of our investigators, I think eternal investigator is a perfect name and I have heard that used a couple times, we also use golden investigator if they are super prepared! So my orthodontist thing got moved to Wednesday just now so thats good because transfers were going to get in the way, I hope every thing goes good for the surgeries I will for sure be praying and I believe temple day is next week, oh and I think I heard the temple here is shutting down for a while but I dont know when or for how long soo ya. Pictures will come soon LOVE YOU!!! 

We also went by the temple last night!

Here is Elder Jones and I in front of a Laotian temple or something or other

Here's us at the end of a road!

Here is us pre nerf war with the zone!!!  We set up a bunch of stuff in the gym and it was a party and a half! I hope all these pics make up for that lack of pics last week! Love yall!!