This week was a pretty good one. We, as a mission, have been focusing on increasing our faith in order to see the miracles that the Lord has in store for us. As a result, our zone taught over 200 lessons this past week which is about 60 more than ever in this zone. So we are all really excited about the good work we have to do up here.
We have another baptism this Saturday so that's exciting! E. will be baptized along with 3 little girls in our branch. I just hope he can stay active in the church since his mom is returning to activity in the church. But we have a pretty good day planned Saturday as we'll be having 4 baptisms :)
So one of the families we've recently started teaching is the S Family. There are 4 that we're teaching. J. (father), M. (mother), M. (25ish) and E. (15ish). This family is so nice! They seem to be really sincere about learning. They said they had previously talked to missionaries, but all they would talk about was the bible. So the other day we taught them about the Restoration of the Gospel and they all said it made tons of sense. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they seem really sincere about reading it. We have another lesson with them on Thursday and we're planning on setting a baptism date for them. Sadly, M. and E. left for Mexico yesterday and won't be back for a few weeks, so we'll have to wait to teach them, but J. and M. are still very eager to learn more.
At church we had some kind of conference in our area or zone or something where we watched a meeting in SLC. Sadly I wasn't able to listen to all of it since I was helping set stuff up and getting the late-comers settled in our little Relief Society room, but I did hear a talk by Sis. Reeves about the Atonement. She talked about how no matter how far we've gone from God, Christ's Atonement can reach us anywhere. It was a good conference and we ended up having 4 investigators at church! We will be having Stake Conference next Sunday in Mishawaka so that will be good!
I recently read the story about Esther in the bible. I love the story of Esther and how courageous she is. It's incredible the faith she had that through the fasting and the prayers of the Jews, she was able to confront the King of Syria and save her people.
Well that's pretty much it for this week. Not a ton going on. But I love hearing from you and about all the fun stuff that's going on over in the Promised Land of Utah! I love you! I'll see you in a couple weeks :)
Love,
Elder Thayne
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