Hola Famila!
Things here are going pretty good!
As you know we got our own laptops individually and we leave them at
the church and stuff but this is where the church is moving with the work for
sure. I have been on the phone several times with the people from the church
talking about what is working and just other stuff :)...So pretty much what we
can do is we can teach anyone on facebook whether they are people from back
home, recent converts, people from other areas (old mission included). We also
take chats form people that go to mormon.org so if we don't have any appointments
in the day then we head to the church and do missionary work online. It has
been working pretty well.
I have been trying to find all of my recent converts on there
too to see how they were doing. I skyped one of the converts from the first part of my mission this week. He has been going
to seminary for the past year and still comes to church every single week. He
is the only young man in the whole branch and there isn't a young men’s leader.
But he is still going strong. So it has been fun working with people online..
Also
President Swain gave me a call this week and he said that he just got off the
phone with the church...the news...my district was the first one selected in
the whole world to get Ipads for our area books! Pretty cool stuff huh! They
also just picked another district in the Ogden mission so that they can see it
in two different missions. So on May 2nd
we have a meeting all day with the people from the church so we can get our Ipads
and see how everything is working! So that is pretty exciting news.
Things in our area are going pretty
good. This week we made it a goal to get the trust of
the members. We took cookies to a bunch of them and one lady called right after
and said that her Grandson kept asking her where she bought the cookies hahaha
so she asked for the recipe. We just got a new Branch President and we took
cookies to him too and found out that he played a lot of basketball when he was
younger so we hit it off pretty good. All and all things are lookin like they
are going to be pretty good. This is probably my last area and I am hoping to
make it my best one! It really doesn't feel like I am almost done with my
mission.
My companion is good too. He is super
young (just turned 19) but he has a lot of faith and really wants to work hard
so that has been nice.
We ate dinners with the English ward
this past week and there was this Korean lady named Sister Kahn and she
fed us sushi...she made me eat 48 rolls!!!! I thought I was gonna die haha but it was super good! This week we are eating with the Spanish ward so that should be fun and I love
the food so I am excited for that! All in all things are going great right now.
It is cool to see how when we really do everything we can to be obedient and diligent
the Lord will bless our area and the people we are working with.
We had run into some struggles with
some of the people we are teaching and I was wondering how we were going to
help them and we weren't able to think of anything really. We went to the
temple this morning and I had the thought to read Ether 12 when we were in the
celestial room and it talked about how it was by the faith of the missionaries
that the Lamanites hearts were changed that is my goal for this week is to
redouble my faith and really just give it my all.
There was a young girl who
got up and bore her testimony this past week in our Spanish Branch because she
just got her mission call. Through her tears she expressed how grateful she was
to be able to have the opportunity to serve the Lord. Not once did she mention
anything about the location of where she was serving but rather how much she
loved and appreciated the Savior for what he did for us and because of that she
was so happy to be able to show her gratitude to serve him. It was a good
reminder to serve with no regrets especially as the time is going down. WE all
need to be more grateful for the sacrifice of our savior and think about how we
can better serve Him. We might not need to go and serve a full time mission but
there is always something that we can do to show our love for our Savior. When
we are in the service of our fellow beings we are only in the service of our
God. Don't forget it!
Siempre Crean,
Elder Creer
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