Be Thou An Example of The Believers: August 20, 2012

HELLO!!!

My emotions are all over the place right now, they kinda have been. . but you better believe I am not slowing down or letting up on this work. I am excited to tell you about this past week and all the miracles that have taken place. We are currently teaching 11 people. Craziness that is what that is.

There is (starting with most progressing towards baptism):

Bee, Jojo, Josh, Hector, DJ, Vincent,Tabaius, Caitlin, Richard, Jose, Mckenley. We have seen them all this past week. But we know that they ones that are progressing right now are those that were referred to us by members of the ward. Fancy that. We taught SOOO much this week. It was awesome.

Bee and Jojo are both getting baptized this upcoming weekend. They are both so very excited!! and let everyone know they were yesterday at church. It is going to be great. One cool story of how reading the B.O.M and how prayer really works. One of the girl had a hard time accepting the word of wisdom, but like any other commandment we invted her to pray about it. That night she went home and prayed. We found out that the following morning she "woke up SO HAPPY!" She knew that this was from the spirit, this is what changed her from being semi excited to SUPER EXCITED! She is so ready for baptism on Saturday. She even texted us one day telling us that she gave her work shift away for saturday. This was showing us that the spirit was working on her! I love the HOLY GHOST , I know that He is the true teacher!

Hector has a learning disability and so we have been teaching him like an 8 year old. Music and all! He is starting to retain what we are teaching him. Very slowly is he remembering. iT IS INCREDIBLE, we know that he is remembering cus he is reading from the BO.M. it is an amazing Book everyone. I hope you know this.

Tabaius. We received him from the Elders in the area. We taught him about prayer one day, cus he would not pray with us. After reading a little bit of the Book of Mormon with him to get him started we invited him to pray yet again. . . nope. But looking at the Book of Mormon he asked . "Is there a scripture in the Book of Mormon that will give me the motivation to pray?" hummmm. . IS THERE? YES! Here is the cool thing. The last lesson we had with him before this one. .this scripture came to my head but we didn't get to share it. You better believe with this question we read it. 2 Nephi 32:8, BAM! PERFECT. After reading this he closed the Book, and began to pray, out loud for the FIRST TIME! awesome!!!! He even prayed with the Elders when they went over there to meet his mom. He volunteered

Zone conference on Wednesday was awesome. I was able to see lots of people probably for the last time. I didn't cry through my departing testimony but I cried before and after when I was listening to everyone else. I can't believe that I was really able to do it without crying but I prayed that I wouldn't. Hardest thing ever!!! Another hard thing was receiving the "trunky papers" in the mail. With all the 411 of what will be taking place on Aug. 30 and 31. Is it really that close? It is surreal.

Let's see?? WHat else? I am not sure. But this last FULL week that I have is not going down without sweat and running. We have a baptism to get ready for to make sure that Bee and Jojo are ready. and Other's to invite!

I love this work soooo much! I am so very happy! I love you all and hope that this week will be blessed by the Lord!