Family and Friends,
Well, this week was very interesting. Usually I have been teaching a lot in this area but the last couple weeks have been slow. The amount of lessons are going down and down each week. I was disappointed in myself trying to think of reasons why we are not teaching as much. Thinking of reasons why we were missing blessings of teaching people. We are studying a lot in chapter 9 in Preach my Gospel. It is all about finding. Elder Herron and I have been focusing on finding people the last couple weeks. We schedule about 20 lessons a week and 75% of them fall through. Ya, a lot of flaking going on. You learn as a missionary that is a part of life. So thinking that we were struggling, I gathered and recorded how we did this week and something slipped my mind. We found 3 new investigators. That is what I have been praying for. Even though the investigators we have had are not progressing, now the Lord has prepared other people for us to find. He answered my prayers at being a better finder. This week was a huge success! I learned never get discouraged, be diligent the Lord will bring to pass his righteous purposes
One of the people we found is Sonia. She actually has a brother that is a member of the ward but doesn't come. So we had no clue he lived there. Sonia was so excited to hear the Restoration of Christ's church. We were planning on only reading the first chapter of the Book of Mormon with her but she continued reading and we read ch. 2. She said that when she gets into a book she won't put it down. So she is really excited to read the Book of Mormon.
There is a lot more stuff going on. A lot of heart breakers and a lot of miracles. I am so grateful for the experiences I have had on my mission thus far. The Lord has blessed me tremendously and there are always miracles happening. We just need to keep our eyes open. Our spiritual eyes.
Scripture of the Week
"And the Lord said unto them: "Go forth among the people the Lamanites (people of Santa Ana), thy brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls." Alma 17:11
Elder Brown
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