Good Week March 25, 2013

Hey fam!

 Happy Easter! That’s exciting news about Amanda!!! wooo!!! hahah. congrats.

This week we had a lot of good stuff that happened. But first I forgot to tell ya'll that I upgraded cars when I got transferred. I drive now a 2013 subaru legacy. It’s nice. It has paddle shifters like a lambo would :D haha its fun.

We had a ton of really good lessons this week. We had a total of 13 lessons! and they were powerful. We also put 13 new investigators on date to be baptized in the coming months. And we found 17 new investigators as well!

So one of the reasons we had so much new investigators is because we were tracting and talked to 4 people who were walking back to their house from buying groceries. We asked if we could share this message with them. They said yes and we walked with them til we got in the house. When we got in we saw that there was 8 adults (mix of fam and friends) who all live there. As we were teaching we were thinking how awesome this is haha. You have the 2 missionerios and 8 adults listening intently. At the end of the lesson we invited them all to be baptized together and they all accepted haha. We went in a circle and asked everyone individually if they would follow the feelings in their hearts and follow Jesus Christ. They all said yes. It was so powerful!! We have a lesson with them tonight and we found them Saturday evening!

We also had a lesson with this 14 year old who is really humble, we walked in his house and there was no furniture only a little kitchen table and a couple chairs!  but as we were going on with the lesson we asked what he felt and thought about the BOM, he said that if it wasn't true we wouldn't even have it because Jose Smith wouldn't have translated it or received it from God. And then he said that if Jose Smith just wrote it he wouldn't have been able to anyway. haha Then at the end he said a super powerful prayer and asked God to let his family be ok with him being baptized and also follow his footsteps and be baptized too!! The spirit was so strong!

Another great lesson we had was with this 17 year old girl on her porch (we can't go in unless there is a guy too) and at the end she also accepted to be baptized and explained she had the chills as we were talking. She wants to be baptized she just has to "convince" her catholic mom. We are going to go see her tomorrow to see what’s up!! How great is that!?!?!

Another lesson with a lady who during the lesson was just sitting there and is like I know the Book of Mormon is true!! haha no way!!! Spirit bomb this week!! She wants to read more til she gets baptized but she is awesome! haha

I hope all these miracles don't mean this is going to be a tough week haha. But yeah it was such a great week to be a missionary!

One thing this week that was hard is that we got out of one of our lessons and saw 2 other spanish elders who aren’t in our zone....the week before president called a spanish meeting because of a lack of obedience (remember how I told about that?) and he told all of us that we have to tell him when we see another missionary break the rules, just because not only are they hurting their own salvation but also the investigators and are giving power to Satan. So we were thinking oh man...why did we have to see these 2 goofs breaking the rules...and a big rule!!! You can’t leave your zone without president's permision! We were scared to tell him.. haha but friday at our zone conference we pulled president aside and told him.. got an email from him thanking us for having the courage to do that and stand up for what’s right. Then he said I hope your relationship with the elders isn't damaged! hahaha oh man...yikes! Oh well God will bless us for doing what’s right!

So this morning we woke up to about 3-4 inches of snow!!! yea!!!! haha its nice too!

So dad we teach grace a lot to less actives! We go through a number of scriptures and then testify that without going to church and partaking of the sacrament we can’t take part in the atonement or receive grace from God, or rather 'divine help' throughout the week. It is one of my favorite things to teach because it is so powerful and really touches their hearts!

Mom the meds were in the last package thanks!!! maybe for easter some betty crocker gluten free choco chip cookies, brownies or any homemade snack! haha sure love ya'll.

So when does Amanda find out if it’s a boy or girl?? or better twins!! I had a feeling lately that Amanda was going to be having a baby! cool right???

Everything is going really good. No complaints here! March sure is going fast!!

Well I hope ya'll have a great Easter and think about what Christ means to you. 2 nefi 9! one of my favorites!!

con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth