February 21, 2009

Last week and this week have been crazy but very good! I will start with last week. Last Tuesday night, Feb. 10th, we had a lesson with Eric and Alyce again in the Feaster's home. It went super well! We talked about prayer. We used a pretty cool object lesson. We made them "the prayer burger". It's a way to teach how to pray in a simple way. The different parts of the burger represent different parts of a simple prayer. The top bun represents the "Dear Heavenly Father..." The condiments (ie: lettuce, tomato, onions, etc) represent the "we thank thee for.." The burger or meat represents  the "we ask thee for"... and the bottom bun represents the "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." The Feasters did an amazing job of sharing their testimonies about prayer! 

Wednesday was interviews with President Van Komen. That went really well! I had district meeting as well. My district meeting was on following the spirit. I think I probably learned the most. After all that I went on exchanges with Elder Hutcheson in his area. He is an elder in my district who is kinda struggling right now. I think we had a really good exchange. I was able to help him with a lot of things. He's doing better now, too! So I'm happy! That night we had dinner with the Stokes family. They are way cool. Sister Stokes made this amazing V-day dinner! She made a heart shaped meatloaf with red mashed potatoes and a ton of other stuff like that. It was pretty fun! 

The mission's goal is to get every companionship teaching at least 20 lesson per week. As a district leader I really wanted to be the example to my district by getting 20 lessons. By the end of Thursday we had 11 lessons. So for Friday and Saturday we needed to work our butts off to get to 20 lessons! And we did work our butts off for those 2 days! Friday we biked around everywhere! Haha! We got 4 lessons on Friday and even a new investigator! Lauren Preater. She's from a part member family that we are visiting a lot. The lesson we taught pretty much blew her mind! Haha! It was awesome! Saturday I think we even worked harder! And for our efforts the Lord blessed us with 5 lessons! We got 20 lessons! It was definitely a miracle! But it felt so awesome to get to the mission goal! Both of the wards we cover were very happy as well!

So I think this is what I'm going to do with this letter... It is Friday night right now and I haven't sent a letter out this week yet. I want to send this one tomorrow morning. I'll start another one tomorrow and have it done by Monday with all the details of this week in it, k? I'll tell you the reasons, though, why we were so busy this week... we committed another investigator, Monica, for baptism on March 14th! She accepted! The Capeners (the family that referred her) are thrilled! They are so amazing! I love the Capeners! We have also been teaching a lot! We are WELL on our way to 20 lessons this week! We are at 17 with 5 appointments tomorrow! For one of them we are going to the Independence Visitor's Center! I'll let you know how it all works out!