How
many active members are there?
That´d be a hard number to put. I´d
say between 80-90
Are
they helping you?
They´re starting to help us quite a
bit more. We´ll see how things get going.
How
was your week?
It was really good again! We had 11
investigators at church again! A few new people, and a few that could make it
this time. Things are really exciting in this ward and the members are helping
us so much right now. With that activity that I told you about last week,
people are just excited about missionary work. I also had the privilege to talk
in sacrament yesterday, and I spoke about Every member a Missionary. It was
good, but bishop only gave me like 6 minutes so it went by quickly.
Did some of your families keep moving along?
Yes! We also had another family
there. Anderson, Carla, and Bruna. Bruna has been coming for a while, but then
we gave a super spiritual message about the atonement this past week and they
all came. It was awesome. We visited them last night with our Elders quorum President
and his wife. Carla shared an interesting comment, she said that every time
that they have prayed for guidance or peace in the home, we [the missionaries]
literally come knocking within 5 minutes. They interpreted that as their
answer, so we´re going to have to get them married so they can be baptized.
it´s going to take a while though because they´re both from different cities,
and we´re going to have to get a hold of both of their birth certificates.
Do you guys all share food or do you buy stuff and eat what you buy?
Normally we just buy our own stuff,
but in this house we´ve been sharing and saving money a lot better. All 4 of us
get along well, which is RARE, so I´m really enjoying this area so far.
Hi Family!
Sorry today will be short, not a lot
of time. We had a really good week, like I said above. We had those two
families at church, which were the majority of our investigators, and another
man named Carlos. He is doing sooooo well with quitting smoking! We went there
last night really quickly and he said he hadn´t put a cigarette in his mouth in
two days! So so cool!
WE have family night tonight with
Helena, she´s the mom of Sandra, a member. She´s been at church the last 2
weeks and last week she asked us when we could mark her baptism. So cool! We
did a fast as a Ward on Saturday for all of these people. We took around names
of our investigators and asked the Ward to fast with us. We´re seeing miracles
here with our collective faith; it´s been pretty amazing.
The mission seems like it´s only
getting better and better, yet the time is getting shorter and shorter. I feel
like I´m becoming the best missionary I can possibly be, yet it´s coming up in
the second year. In chapter 6 of PmG it talks about Christ-like attributes and
that´s what I´ve been studying every morning for the last while. As I have
learned to apply these things into my life, I am seeing more success. Not only
outward success, but I am feeling happier and more in-tune with the spirit as
well. That would be a chapter that would be awesome for the youth to study. I´d
recommend it. I don´t have grandma Frome´s
email, but tell her happy 80th birthday for me! I love all of you!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Shepherd
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