April 11 2016

Whenever there is an inflation it is always followed by a deflation. We have had great weeks in the past, but this last week was slow, and numbers were not as high and we did not meet with a lot of investigators.

One of our investigators who was on date is not any more. We were unable to meet with him. We thought that he was one of those people who drop off the face of the earth when they get ready for baptism, which has happened before. It is hard to keep in contact with him because he does not have a cell phone, or land line. But the cool thing is we saw him yesterday! We were driving home and we saw him on the side of the road about to cross it. We both waved hi. He saw us. He looked like he had seen a ghost but he saw us! 

We are making progress with Grant. He came to church yesterday. We are meeting with him tomorrow. We are going to roll out the stop smoking program. He used to smoke but still struggles with it, this 15 step stop smoking program will help someone get rid of the desire to smoke in 7 days. 

This transfer is almost over! This is the last week until transfers. I could train my last two transfers or not, we do not know anything when it comes to transfers. 

I have been looking forward to this week because on the 16 we are driving down to Calgary. Elder Christofferson and Elder Martino are coming. It will be great to see them and to hear them speak. Maybe they will be rolling out ipads, which will be so helpful to teach and to use in Elder quorum. 

There is this lady, she is not a member, but she comes to church with her young daughter every week. She speaks Romanian, so it’s hard for her to understand us. We gave her a Romanian Book of Mormon and some other things. Maybe she will get baptized but we need someone that can speak the language. 

The next two months as a mission we are studying the Atonement. President gave us a book with lots of talks about the Atonement. Once we read it we are going to the temple as a mission. South part of the mission will go to the Cardston temple; the north part of the mission will go to the Calgary temple.  They did this once before, when I first came out. Reading about the Atonement is so amazing! My understanding of it has grown, and also my love for Christ. 

There are about 20 talks about the Atonement. I have read 3 so far and they are amazing. The Atonement is universal, infinite, a miracle and it’s there for us. We can have new life, live without burdens, and be forgiven. Jesus Christ was the only one that could have done this. He did the will of the Father. 

I’m glad to hear that all of you have taken and continued the challenge that I sent about the Book of Mormon. 

It is really cool to see how much the book testifies of Christ. 

Love you all