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April 23, 2012

Hey Everyone!!!

Hope you had a great week, and it sounds like everyone is doing great! So it's been a really great week this week! President Irwin was at our District Meeting, which it was great to see him and Sister Irwin. It was a good one this week! 

 

So this week we we're able to reach some of our goals of teaching lessons, which was good! We are teaching this doctor, who is a really great guy! He is such a humble guy and is really finding our message helpful and enlightening. He is progressing so much, the only problem is that he works and studies so much that he can only meet once every other week, and works often on Sundays. 

 

One  great miracle we saw was this one girl we are teaching hasn't really been making too much progress. She does a lot of the things she needs to, but doesn't really believe in God, and has been unwilling to pray to know if He's there. But, she came into this last meeting, and she said that she has started doing that! It ws a really cool thing to see, and even though she doesn't have a specific answer yet, she is definitely progressing. 

 

We also met with this one kid for the first time and it was an awesome lesson! He told us he would read the Book of Mormon in a week. Just a really great kid, and we're really excited to meet with him again this week! There really are prepared people! Also, we got one of our member's less active sons to come to church. He is about 17 and is a really cool kid! Now we just need to help him realize that he should serve a mission! Just a great kid though.

 

So, other things though. I'm just really realizing more everyday the importance of the gospel, and the importance of declaring it to everyone. I still really love the scripture on my plaque back home in Romans, about how "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ". I'm realizing everyday, that I am really living that, as I go and talk with people who don't want to hear anything about the gospel, and I realize that I really am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. I also am really trying to internalize that verse in 3 Nephi 5:13 "behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am called of Him to declare His gospel, among His people, that they might have eternal life" or something like that, I'm just quoting it from memory. It really is a great verse though, and I'm definitely trying to live it. 

 

Elder Hansen is doing awesome as well! We are working hard to declare the gospel to everyone! He is a great hard worker, and I'm really glad to serve with him. He's a great help!

 

Hope you all had a great week this week! Sounds like things are going great! Congratulations to Eric on graduating! You did it!!! Have a great week everyone! Love you all!

 

sLaskou

-Starsi Salas