Week 65 Letter

Jurupa Week 4

(Sept 30th 2013)

All

This last week has been insanely busy.
On Tuesday there was a training for all Bishops, Ward Mission leaders and Ward missionaries (and Zone leaders). Elder Richards and Elder Hiam of the seventy spoke on hastening the work, and how to get the ball rolling.

On Wednesday we had meetings all day. Elder Richards of the seventy came and gave a bunch of trainings. It was pretty great and I learned a lot. I will bring my notes next week and share some of the things he talked about.

he talked a lot about simplicity in teaching. "Cutting the fluff" and teaching the fundamentals and testifying.
There are 4 fundamental truths that people must understand to gain a testimony.
   1st The Atonement of Jesus Christ
   2nd The First Vision
   3rd The Book of Mormon
   4th The Priesthood authority has been restored.

I'll share more next week when I bring my notes.

Two of our investigators, Marybell and Adan are progressing awesomely. We have several awesome lessons with them a week. They "get it". It's so cool, they recognize the spirit and the change that it's been making in their lives. Their holdup has been that Adan works on Sundays (an investigator has to attend church at least 3 times before they can be baptized). But he was able to make it yesterday and they stayed the whole time. They are super excited for their baptism the 19th. We all have been praying that Adan will be able to get work off permanently on Sundays.
I love being a missionary! It is so amazing to see the gospel help people's lives.

Another thing elder Richard's said which struck me was he presented an equation (it's not exactly an equation but w/e)
Happiness is directly proportional to having the spirit which is directly proportional to our Faithfulness. In other words. We are happy when we have the Spirit with us, we can have the spirit with us as we make good choices and do the things that God has asked us to.

I'm looking forward to General Conference this weekend. I invite everyone to watch it, and go with questions. I promise that those questions will be answered.

This transfer has gone insanely fast.

Thanks everyone! Please write, I'm still working on responding.
Elder Johns