5 months a missionary

Hello everyone!

What a great week have had! My companion is staying! It's a good thing becuase I don't really know this area well enough! I would have spent alot of the Lords time lost! My mission president is definately inspired hehe! I am glad that she is staying becuase it is very overwhelming having to teach someone such a large area so the work can only progress so much. We spent most of last transfer finding and we were blessed for that but now we are focusing on organising things here so that they run smoother and getting the members more involved! We have met with alot of bishops and ward mission leaders, have given talks the last two Sundays.. we are planning on sharing our testimonies in the other wards that we attend tis Sunday, we are giving talks in two wards on the 12th, we have already planned for a fireside that two of the wards that are farthest away will attend.. probably just for the youth and we will hopefully do one in all the other wards.. hopefully two wards will attend the one fireside. We have created fliers so that people can get to know us! It's fun! I love feeling busy and involved!

We have just starting teaching the 18 year old boy who was referred by his friend (who is a girl.. hehe its cute to watch) but he is doing it for himself!!! It is so great to see a young boy at that age who for no reason other than he thinks its wrong, hasn't drank or smoked and knows that religion is important! He is such a cool kid... so we gave him a reading assignment after teaching him and the next time we met with him again he was like... so I read what you told me to and then I couldn't help but start reading it from the beginning.... 9 chapters worth! Then he proceeded to accurately explain the whole story line! It was so cool! We are teaching him again tonight so we will see how it goes!

I finished reading the Book Of Mormon for the first time on my mission last week!! What an awesome feeling! I have learnt so much and everything is really starting to come together in it for me. Our mission President has challenged us to read it in three months so I am up 3 Nephi 12 already again! There is so much personal application in the book of Mormon I know that it is meant for us. It is such a blessing in our lives if we just take the time each day to read it! Just 20 minutes a day is all we are asked to do! Thats not that hard, Satan just likes to make us think it is!

We are teaching another 13 year old boy... we are teaching so many boys/men its crazy! He is almost ready for baptism.. we asked him last time and he is feeling it. He has been really prepared though! It's the ones that keep their committments who progress! It is so exciting to watch people gain testimonies! I am so lucky to be part of this!

I have been out 5 months at the end of this week! Weird!