Well i actually saw the prom pictures yesterday but i had no idea who she was with. We were at the bishops house and the wife showed me the pictures. I had no idea who any one was......Amon has changed a lot. Is he taller now?
As for the pictures of coutrney.....she looks good. The pictures are pretty.......
Yep sounds like a ton of fun and i saw that brooklyn is super tall. It will be weird when to see everyone again. I also realized looking at her pictures (bishops wife) how much skinnier i am..................I'm eating so much.... oh well.
As for this week. This week was actually a super hard week. Haha each week can only get better ;) but we started the week with not a single investigator. Literally, not a single one. We are visiting the less actives as much anymore because you can literally lose yourself doing that. There were weeks that we had almost more lessons with them than with actual lessons. And so we decided to find new investigators........................................................................................................................................................................and we knocked on doors.................................................almost the whole week......................................................................................................................................................................yeah but towards the end of the week some people started opening their doors and as crazy as it seems we managed more lessons this week than any other week i've been here. We also had a couple members turn away from the church, and some other fun things that aren't as important............................................but the GOOD NEWS-> we are still here, and we are doing fine. We had two huge miracles this week and I'm so grateful for these miracles. Obviously had more than 2 but these are the two i would like to share.
So one was on tuesday, we went to visit a reference of an investigator. We talked with her super quickly on sunday, gave her a pamflet and went on our way. Tuesday we went back to just do a quick visit and see if she read the pamflet. She opened the door and invited us in. So we entered. We sat down, talked a little with her got to know her and the we asked her if she read the pamlfet......she read the whole pamlfet and had done the prayer at the end. She started to explain how our prayers are completely different and how she said she felt that she was really inviting Heavenly Father in her prayer and how she felt a great peace and how much she loved to use that prayer instead of Our Father. So then we decided to teach her the first vision, and afterwards she asked about baptism, so we taught about baptism and helped her rocognize the Holy Ghost, then she asked what are things that stop people from being baptized, If she could be baptized again, and so we explained that she could and then taught her the commandments. Word of wisdom and law of chastity. She then said she would throw out her coffee and she would keep the commandments. We invited her to be baptized and she accepts without hesitation! A huge miracle and I'm so grateful to have been there to be a part. we didnt get to talk to her since then, she has kind of dissapeared but the Lord still blessed us and even if we never find her again or get to talk with her it was a huge blessing.
Also had another lady that the Lord guided us to her house, we felt that we should go knock doors in a certain area, and after much rejection had a family with their front gate open, and they let us in. Taught the first lesson andinvited them to pray. She had a little bit of a hard time during the lesson but in the end she understood. Came back the next day and she told us that she had felt a peace so great when we were there and when we left she kept feeling that peace and it kept reminding her of the things we taught and how she loved that peace. We explained that it was the Holy Ghost responding her prayer (John14:26) and we invited her to follow the response and to be baptized, she wants to but she want to first keep the commandments and visit the church, she said she wouldnt drink coffee anymore and that she would go to church with us and it was a true blessing. She didnt go, she had to take care of her grandson and took medicine to sleep and literally didnt wake up.
But i'm so grateful for the blessings of the Lord I know this is His work and that there are people prepared to recieve the Gospel. I know that He will guide us to them and that we must help them to recieve the restored Gospel I'm doing everything I can to be always worthy of the Holy Ghost so that Ha can guide us in our way. It requires a lot of patience, lots of suffering, and lots of love. I learned to hold my tounge this week....and to let things go. I'm trying to just love everyone independent of what they do or think of me. It's not easy, especially when they dont treat you exactly right but you still have to love and to serve them. You must always be humble and always think about others. I'm doing good, and loving the mission. I miss you all a ton but I still have lots to learn.
Love,
Elder Simonsen
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