How has your week been? Sounds very busy! Glad the spaghetti wasn't a mess! So you want to know everything? Okay here it goes! Last week we didn't get in weekly planning which was horrible, upside though I see the difference of what happens if we don't plan. So we did 34 lessons last week and this week we only got 28 not a big difference but not enough, we shoot for 40 and haven't gotten it. We'll be working hard this week. We had Elder Packer come in this past Tuesday for Zone Conference and that was cool! President Jensen and the Zone Leaders set mission goals for us which I know were inspired and can and will be reached if we are but faithful! The goal is 300 baptisms a year, that equals 6 a week mission wide I think he said. But the statistics of the mission show that about every 30 new investigators we have 1 will be baptized, so the goal for our area is, 30 new investigators a transfer, which should be 1 new baptism, and 20 member present lessons each transfer. It is mission wide goal now to read from the Book of Mormon everyday with intent to help investigator, as well as study each and every lesson personally and as a companionship each transfer as well as set 1 personal self improvement goal each transfer. I'm excited to get to work! We need to focus alot on finding! None of my companions want to tract, which I understand, but we have no others means at the moment for finding people, so we need to do it. We are working on getting a sports night every week for everyone to come and play ball or something and have members invite friends so we can meet new people in a non threatning environment. Our ward mission leader is still a pretty recent convert and doesn't know what to do very well. He is still learning! We will be starting a Preach My Gospel class that were gonna teach each week for Sunday school so we can help show people how to introduce the gospel to their friends. I think it would be a great idea! My talk is coming along...well not very well! I kinda have an end goal for it, I want to get the members to bring friends over to dinner when we come, not a surprise attack thing though. Still trying to figure out what exactly. So there are the mission goals. :D We have two baptisms that will be coming up this next transfer if all goes well. Catherine and her daughter Macy are still working through some things so we pushed the baptism back to april sometime. Elder Johsnon and I were teaching this member Tony who is completely inactive and works Sundays, Elder Dame has been teaching him for awhile before I came, but his wife and son are not members, we made some progress with them though, the son never sat in with the lessons before but Elder Johnson and I asked him if he'd like to join and he did, so we were able to get him interested and we have a return appointment! YEA! We go to the flea market everyweek to contact and I met this guy Jared who has a stand there selling stuff and turns out he is a member but inactive and we talked to him about coming over and he wants us too! He is a cooll guy, my age. We also met this guy Terry who has a sunglass stand and we talked with him the first two weeks, he is a great guy we chatted with him and turns out his daughter is a member! he and his wife aren't but they love us! We met the wife about two weeks ago she was there and he wasn't so I started to talk to her and turns out she is a sweetheart!!!!! She is so Christlike already, full of love! Elder Vaughn and I listened to her and did very little talking ourselves for about 40 minutes then we got her number and address, she really wants to have us over for dinner but she isn't in our area so she demands we call president and ask him, haha she is great. before we left she came up and gave us big huge hugs! There was really nothing we could do about it! haha but I was rebuked by Elder Walesby our senior missionary neighbor when I told him the story. :( haha he is right though. The worst part is, she gave me a kiss on the cheek too! AH!! SHe is just a loving older lady! She has 9 kids! She needs to be a member! haha this week has been hard for lack of planning last week but we planned this week so this coming week should be wonderful! We need to do lots of finding. 5 investigators a week is the goal! Oh mom! I really need to get my patriarchal blessing too, I dont' know what happened to mine. So could you please send me the other copy, or the laminate one you were talking about making? I also need my Priesthood lineage I don't have it. We are going to the beach today! I will be sure to take lots of pictures! I have a feelin I will be building a sand castle, :D Well I love yal! I am so grateful for you! Thank you so much for your support! I love you all! Take great care! Momma thank you for everything you are great! Oh the Whites are moving away this Saturday, the family I met when I first came out here, they are doing better, saying prayers together and what not, we are going over for dinner wednesday with them so I am really excited to be with them again before they move. Love you so much! Please take care yal! :D
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