June 24, 2013

Good Morning family or as I like to say, “Talofa!”

Thanks Mom! Haha, I remember you would always come into my room and start singing that song, “Good morning to you, Good morning to you…” haha it always woke me up and most of the time made me a little bit happier that day.

This week has been great for missionary work! We have been working with a lot of our recent converts and keeping them involved in the church as much as possible. It is so exciting to see them have family home evening together. We have has the chance to conduct a lot of them and teaching them that it is very important to hold those every week at a set time as well, they can see the blessings coming through their faithfulness. We have also been working with a recent convert family that has issues with paying tithing and we explained how we couldn’t afford not to pay our tithing because of how it blesses our lives and our families’ lives. We have also been teaching them about keeping the Sabbath day holy by not going fishing and not going to basketball games. We have the opportunity to teach their teenage girls and the mother about modesty and how we should not wear revealing clothing because our body is a temple and we should treat it that way! Other than that we have been working with all of the new investigators we found last week and they are learning a lot and starting to believe in what we are teaching them. It is the best time of your mission when your investigator gets his or her own answer and knows that it is true. I love this work!! It is moving forward so get on the freight train and join our army!

HOLY CRAP that is so great to hear about all the new mission calls! They will have so much fun on their missions. I can’t believe they are all going out of the country. I’m a little jealous, but I know that they have people over there that have been prepared for them to teach them the gospel with their own teaching style, just like the people in Independence had been preparing for me and they will all be blessed according to their faithfulness. Zane is going to Poland? That is crazy! I had a pretty good idea that he would be going out of the country. They each have to wait a while before they get to go to the MTC! Well, Hunter will be so great down there in Africa, haha just like Dillon Hales teaching the Lamanites. Emily will be great in New Zealand. She is going to work out a lot, because the members there are going to treat her well and feed her even better! Trust me, I know!

The missionary training was great! I loved every second of it. It was so true that it is up to the members to find us people to teach because only about 10% of tracting brings a baptism, so I am so happy they announced that change. That it will greatly affect missionary work as we know it. Did you hear at the beginning how he said that electronic media will be used to further the work? Facebook will be a vital resource as well as mormon.org and lds.org. They will greatly help us missionaries in this cause.

I love you and pray for your safety every day! Love you – more to come next week!

Love

Elder Davies