Dear President:
This week was great! We definitely made some progress with quite a few of our investigators. We met with the Ward Mission Leader and he gave us some names of people that we could visit. Mainly LA's which is definitely something we are trying to work on. We met with a couple this week and will just continue to love them. Mainly work is the issue but a I know one for sure has been offended before in the past. He used to be in the Bishiopric. Incredible man.
This week we are planning for a meeting with the Bishop next Sunday. The mission conference definitely gave us some good ideas that we will be using to help us focus our efforts on how to most effectively use our time we have with the Bishop. He's a really great guy and I can't wait to use his knowledge to try and help others come back to Christ.
We have an investigator L-- who is so solid. Whenever we talk to him he tells us that he is constantly developing his faith and that every time he prays he can feel something. He can't explain it but he just says it feels really good. He didn't have any concept of religion before he met us and now he is starting to develop a relationship with God. There is a problem though. Like quite a few of our investigators their parents highly disapprove of a relationship with the church. L-- would be baptized in a heart beat but he is not allowed to attend church. We will continue to meet with him and pray for his parents hearts to be softened. So much of missionary work is preparing is preparing people for an opportunity later on in life to receive the gospel. I love this aspect of the work!
W-- D-- made the most progress this week. The first half of the lesson we had with him was super distracted and not to the point. He kept going off on random tangents and I did not have any idea where the lesson was. I was starting to get really frustrated. When I started feeling those feelings I prayed and asked the Lord to really help me focus on him and I also asked what I could do to bring the lesson back. I decided to start bearing my testimony about how the gospel has blessed me in my life and how I knew that it could bless his life if he was willing to do a few things. My companion then challenged him to receive baptism and he said that he would. It was then that we got to his real concern. He told us that he had some things in his life he really wanted to improve and that if he could start to resolve those things he would be baptized. I'm so thankful for heavenly father and his guidance in these situations. Truly a miracle.
So many new investigators this week. My testimony about tracting, contacting, and finding through members is constantly strengthened! We found 6 new people this week who are ready to hear the gospel.
My companion and I get a long great. He is a great example to me in just loving the people. Everyone that we meet with actually wants to meet with us. Sometimes we have people call us! I think this is great. I'm really thankful for his example.
Love the work, tired (which hopefully means I'm workin hard), biked up a mountain, ate a chickens head and foot, and got an A'ma to laugh. I'd say it was a great week.
Thank you for your support!
Elder Meeks
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