Thanksgiving

November 26, 2012

 

Dear Family!!

I love you all so much, I'm truly grateful for you all!!! Sounds like everything went very good this past week! Glad to hear!

This week we had a ton of service!! We were told that on thanksgiving not to go tracting but to seek service. We pretty much served the whole day and ate as well. For lunch we had steak at the Drawsbecks, they of course made me and only me an omelet, its tradition for me now ha-ha. They sure are great to me ha-ha not sure why. But it was good. Then for dinner we went to the Fuentes. It was really good, they made me this huge thing of carne asada because I’m allergic to turkey! So good and all to myself ha-ha wow. They talked and talked ha-ha we were there for 3 hours that night. Great family, they are from El Salvador but attend the Chantilly English ward!

One very big miracle this week was we went to the library to teach Timoteo, but couldn’t find him so we called his friend asking where he might be but he said he didn't know. So we hung up and got ready to leave when this guy sitting by a tree smoking asked if we were looking for Timoteo. We said yes and he's like he's not here today but you guys are the LDS missionaries right? We were like yes and he told us his story of how he met some great LDS families in Las Vegas and took the missionary lessons but lost contact when he moved back here. So we taught him the first lesson and set him on date for Dec 22. He was smoking and held up his cigarette and said I'll quit! We didn't even have to ask him. It was amazing, we passed him on to the English missionaries. Which they had a baptism this week and Joey (the smoker dude) went and loved it! Greatly increased his desire to get baptized. The baptism was for Carlos, originally taught by the Hermanas but passed on to the English missionaries as well because he wants to go to the English ward. But the picture is of us Spanish missionaries with him after his dunk. Also something great happened. There is this guy named Antwon who is one of the English investigators and he got up and bore his testimony and he and his girlfriend afterwards had a lesson and they both got set on date for Dec 22 as well. The girlfriend was crying during the service and also during the lesson. The spirit was super strong! Also I felt prompted to bring my English scripture to the baptism so I did for whatever reason, and for the lesson for the English elders didn't have theirs' but I had mine so they used it for their lesson ha-ha pretty cool right?! Hope that all made sense :)

We stopped by Erick and his family and checked how they are. He said that ever since we gave him that blessing to help with his coffee problem that he doesn't even crave it or anything, he was super grateful!!! Its always so great to see the power of the priesthood!!

A side note, Elder Justin Moodie is already training!!! Really crazy! I'm proud of him ha-ha

Yesterday at church it was Diego's confirmation. That was really powerful and hit me to think of these people's potential and how God knows everyone and He has a need of everyone.

The other day when we were using our area book to find more people, we walked past a door and I felt prompted to knock it. Pretty weird and at first I didn't think it was a prompting, but as we were walking back to the car it kept telling me to go back. So I was like hey we gotta knock this door. So we go and this lady answers (it was an English neighborhood but this lady was Spanish, so I was like ok this is good) and we told her who we are etc etc and invited her to the festival of lights at the temple. She asked, the temple thing in Maryland?? We were like yeaaaaa, and she's like oh well I have a ton of curiosity about that place!!!!! So I was like sweet!!! We are excited to see what may happen with her! Curiosity is great, it can lead to desire then to faith and baptism. Follow every prompting!!!

The temperature here is pretty cold, but no snow. I'm not used to it being so cold without snow ha-ha it kinda messes with me!! I'm like where’s the snow?! But my coat keeps me warm!

I read my setting apart blessing again and it amazes me how so much of it is happening ha-ha. Its great and truly perfect I love it, it gives me so much peace and the spirit. Also I'm loving the scriptures more and more. I'm trying really hard to study better and remember what I read! A study journal really helps me!

Tomorrow we have our interview with President! I'm excited for it!!

Well I love you all, there should be more pics coming today hopefully!

Also me and Ochoa were wanting (if it’s possible) to get Calle t-shirts for Christmas. I would really like that ha-ha

Love you all so much, be safe this week with everything going on etc.

Con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth