5/28/12

Hello,

This week has been amazing!! It has been so spiritual and we have met so many amazing people. The first miracle is about a lady named Julie. We went to an appointment and when we got to the lady's house she asked if we could come back another time. So the night before when we were planning we decided that some of our back up plans were going to be that we were going to do some finding. So that's what we did. We were walking down the road and we saw this little random street of houses so we decided to go up and knock those doors. On our way up we saw a little family so we stopped and talked to them. It was a lady named Julie with her three kids. We just started to talk to her about her beliefs and she started to tell us that she has been praying to know what church to go to because the churchs she has been going to just haven't felt quite right. I that she has been feeling guilty because she hasn't been going. So we then started to teach her about Joseph Smith and the restoration. Sister Binnie quoted the first vision and during that she just started to cry. She said that she was feeling something so powerful and it was something that she has never felt so strongly before. It was so amazing! The spirit just took right over and touched her heart. She told us that there was something different about us that was contagious and she wanted to know more and that she never wanted to lose touch with us. She gave us all of her details and just kept saying how amazing she felt. It was such a spiritual experience and Heavenly Father has been preparing her and led us to that road that day. The message that we share is so powerful and it truly touches peoples hearts and changes them! It was such a shame tho because she is going out of town for 2 weeks for her son's sports and school so we don't even get to start teaching her for a while. But I have faith that we will be able to and that she is one of the elect. President, it was seriously one of the most amazing moments in my life.

The second miracle is about one of our baptismal dates named Vivaldo. He is pure amazing as well. We have been teaching him for quite a while and he believes everything and everytime that we meet with him he just says how much he wants to follow God and Jesus Christ and he is so ready to change his life. He has been praying about babtism for a long time and he said that he just feels like he isn't ready. We taught him about fasting on saturday afternoon and how that would help him receive an answer as well and that when you fast with a prayer that you can come closer to God. He was really worried about not eating. We committed him to fast with us on Sunday for him and to fast specifically about his baptism. After church we were talking with him and asking him about how church was and to see how his fast was going. He told us that he wasn't hungry at all because God was feeding him spiritually and he was really feeling the spirit. The bishop got up and talked for a few minutes about testimonies and how powerful they are and about his mission. Vivaldo said that he felt like the bishop was talking specifically to him and that he feels like he needs to do that as well. Later that night he called us with his answer to his prayers and fasting. He told us that he was definitley going to be baptized he just wasn't sure when. He told us to prepare everything and he would keep praying! So he is going to be baptized and both me and sister Binnie have faith that he is ready and will feel ready this week!

Elder Jones,  Sister Nelson  and Sister Pitcher

A huge bug we found in our flat! it was soooooo sick and had a huge stinger

I was just thinking about bear lake and camping today haha i really am gonna miss that. this whole week has been scorching hot haha it was wonderful I even got a little tan! :) we just switched weather i guess. :)

I started laughing when i saw the frond door. even tho it isn't that funny it's sad. is it going to be expensive to replace? i can just hear you and dad yelling at him. i miss you all so much! not a day goes by that i don't think about you or miss you. so much. i talk about all of you all the time but no one understands how amazing you all are.

love you so much and i will write some more this week if i have time! :)

love syd