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 Monday June 27, 2022 This week has been really good!! We had much success in our work. We had many people committed to church yesterday. We had many people that accepted our message and were excited to learn and come. We ended up having 4 people come to church and 1 returning member! It was awesome to see the fruits of the hard work we put in this week. We had great lessons with Barbara, which I will talk about later, and tried different ways of contacting people that are hard to get in contact with. This week was really good and I have no complaints! This week we had the opportunity to have a lesson with Barbara. She is the one on date for baptism on July 9th. We talked to her about the word of wisdom and we spoke about coffee. They were a little on the edge about that and didn't see the reason for it. We spoke more about it and eventually they committed to stop coffee and substitute it with energy drinks. That was a good step for them! Suspecting that they were still a little he...

 Monday June 20, 2022 This week was a little slower than the rest. We had a lot of errands to run for the Zone which is part of the assignment. We've also had great lessons with the members of the wards also. Many members are thinking of people to reach out to with love. We had to take Greg off date this week because we can't get in contact with him. We are still trying to get in and talk to him. Barbara and Maya, the other two we have on date, are doing well. They won't make their date of July 9th because they missed church this past Sunday, but they still seem sincere and want to be baptized. We unfortunately weren't able to get in contact with many of our progressing people but we're going to try harder this coming week. A little slower of a week but all is well. For this week's spiritual experience it was during lunch on Sunday. I had extra time during lunch and so I decided to put on a byu Devotional by Elder Holland titled "are you true?" He spok...

 Monday June 13, 2022 This week was really good! We had more miracles this week and found more people to teach. No complaints for this week! We have Zone Conference tomorrow and that will be the last training I'll give so that will be cool haha. We have been preparing a lot for that this week. We went on 3 exchanges this week. They were all good and we saw miracles in each. Nothing too crazy happened, just the same missionary work as usual! For the spiritual experience of the week it was last Monday night. We were out later in the night on this one street and just finishing up a conversation with someone. As we finished the conversation we headed towards the car to leave and go contact somewhere else. As we were opening the doors we heard someone yelling from across the street at the top balcony of an apartment complex. They were just yelling "hey, hey". And we didn't think they were talking to us at first because most people don't call out to the missionaries, in...

 Monday June 6, 2022 This week has been great! Getting used to a new area had been different haha. It's been a while. Elder Hadley and I are getting along well together. This week we found a couple people to teach and one of them I'll put the story down below. One of the people we found was a former who texted us out of the blue and said that she had stopped smoking for a month or two and wants to progress towards baptism. We had a lesson with her that night and it went well. She may or may not only want to get baptized to have financial help from the church. We still need to figure that out. For this transfer Elder Hadley and I want to focus a lot on member work and getting referrals and following up. I'm excited for my last transfer. Really sad that it is coming to an end, but I will work my hardest this transfer. I love the Lord and I know he lives. I decided for this last transfer I will read the living Christ at the end of every personal study. I hope to focus on Chris...

 Monday May 30, 2022 This week was a good week. We are preparing for transfers and for my last transfer I will be getting transferred to a new area. It's crazy how time flies, but I have full intentions of ending strong. I am so grateful for the time I've been able to serve a mission and for the person the Lord has made me to be. This past week we had exchanges and also found many people to teach. We passed off a few people to the family wards as well and still have some to pass off. We are seeing the coolest things with the Book of Mormon. With those that we are teaching we are only reading the Book of Mormon as our lesson plan and helping them have a spiritual experience. When we started doing that they were kind of meh with the lessons, but now they are progressing much faster. As we get them to read their desire to learn increases. The spirit starts to touch their heart and enlighten their minds. The Book of Mormon has real power behind it. It really is the cheat to mission...

 May 24, 2022 This week was a great week. We found many people to teach and had some great miracles. Our friends are progressing somewhat. We are working with many and they are slowly moving along, but nonetheless they are progressing. We had a cool miracle this past week. We were in an apartment complex and we only had 5 minutes before we had to run to a lesson. We saw a young man and knew we had to speak to him. We spoke to him and it turns out that he had spoken to missionaries a few years back. He has the Book of Mormon 1/4 the way through and wants to get back into it. We asked him if he wanted to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and he said yes. That was awesome. It was a pretty cool miracle that we had with him! God is placing people in our path! This was a great week! For the spiritual experience of the week it was during a lesson we had with a friend. Elder Wilding had found someone on his exchanges and he happened to be a YSA in our area. Eld...