August 19, 2013

Oh hey there familiy dear!!!!!! How is everything going?.....REALLY? Hope all is well:D

 

Things are going great over here!! We have had some nice 120 degree days this week and right now it is only 102 outside.....life is GOOD:D

Well this week was the mission tour with Elder Cardon. It was amazing. He talked a lot about helping our investigators recognize and feel the spirit by helping them pray. Sometimes one of the trickiest things to do is have the person you are teaching say the closing prayer. Well he talked about that and how we can help them actually do it. We have been trying everything he said to do and every lesson we have had since then the investigator has said a kneeling prayer at the end of the lesson. It has been an awesome experience. One of my favorite things as a missionary to experience is someones first out loud prayer. They are always the most sincere heartfelt conversations I have ever heard in my life. Prayer really is real and we really can talk to the most powerful being in the universe anytime and every time we want to. It is so mind boggling how busy God must be, but how he makes time to answer every prayer and to pay attention to every thought that we have. He is pretty much the coolest ever :D

This week we got a refferal from one of the elders, someone they had contacted in the street and wanted us to go by. Well, she is superrrrr prepared to hear the gospel!!! She has family in Mesa that are members and they are always inviting her to go to church with them, but it is like 40 minutes away so she never has. She has always asked them to let her know where a closer church is and she would go....well they never helped her find one. And then the elders happen to stumble upon her and give us her contact info....coincidence??? I think not! So we had a lesson with her about the restoration and she loves it! She loves the focus of the family in the church and wants her kids to have that support that she sees her famliy get from the friendships they have in the church. She is awesome and we are so excited to work with her more :D

So dear ole J2 y A...the ones that came to church last sunday :D .....things aren't going to great. We had a lesson with them about the Book of mormon and in the middle of it J2 looked at A and told her to choose right then which church she wanted to go to--Mormon, catholic o christian. She kind of started crying because she didn't know. J2 is really confused and would rather not think about religion and A just wants to do what is best for her family. But they will come around, they are golden, they just need to realize it first. AND..the funniest thing happened. We went over to their house and they were watching a movie on TV that they really wanted to finish. Guess what it was???? Johnny Lingo, the new version. Haha. They are mormon and they dont even know it yet :D And another little side note....last week when we stopped by in the morning to help them come to church, J2 was about to get ready to mow a lawn for a neighbor. Well, we promised him that the Lord would provide a way to find more work if he made time right then to come to church......and you know what happened??? When he got home he had 5 more lawns to mow. The Lord always blesses us when we keep the commandments, especailly the sabbath day holy. There is a really cool scripture that I found, mosiah 2:22-24. 22 And behold, all that he ^arequires of you is to ^bkeep his commandments; and he has ^cpromised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth ^dvary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do ^ekeep his ^fcommandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth ^arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately ^bbless you; and therefore he hath paid you.
 

How simple life really is. All that is required of us is to keep the commandments. To love unconditionally, to share the gospel, to go to church, and He promises us that we will "prosper in the land." And I absolutely love how it says that he doth immediately bless you. It really is true. He immediately blesses us when we do what we are suppose to. How cool is that????? Well, we pointed that out to J2, that he got more lawns to mow because of the immediate blessings the Lord saw fit to send him because he came to church. The church is just sooooooooooooo TRUE!

Well I love you all lotttttssssssss! Miss you dearly and remember how special you are :D hehe. Have a great week and we will talk to ya later! Love you!