4/22/13 from Elder Mitts

There is so much i am doing out here that the 2 years will be up before missing you too much can get me down. Today is the first day of transfer #2, which is crazy, because there are only 17 transfers in a 2 year mission, so 16 left and i will be going home.

we just lost one of our zone leaders, he flies home tomorrow. Elder Arnold is awesome and has been such an example to me. my trainer Elder Lieberum, has 6 weeks left til he goes home, and there is nothing stopping him from getting one last baptism before he goes home. we are going to have the chance to go to a baptism for one of his investigators in his previous area, which i am pretty excited about.

we had to drop one of our investigators, she is not progressing, and she has stopped meeting with us, probably because she feels guilty. we tried and tried to meet with her and encourage her, but she is using her agency to go a different way. this is not her first time in and out of the teaching pool, but i was hoping this time would be different. she will come in the Lords time.

Amazing though, is the fact that another one of our investigators surprised us by just showing up at church yesterday, it was stake conference, so she got a long meeting with lots of talks but we think she liked it, and we had extended that invitation multiple times and she finally followed through, so we are happy.

we have many more people to see then in the past, there is also a bigger effort to get referrals from the ward members, all i can say is, help your missionaries out and give them some referrals. they wont turn your friends against you, they will get them baptized, and they will make them happy, whether they like it or not :) jk they will like it, they better, or else... and hey you get blessings including, but not limited to : Another friend in the church, An increased measure of the Holy Ghost in your life, A new found love for sharing the gospel, Happy Missionaries, (which has got to be one of the best blessings) and a host of spiritual and temporal blessings that cannot be named via email.

 we are preparing a chronological version of the Book of Mormon, and i am going to read it starting in Ether, and see what comes of seeing it in the order it was written, it should be interesting! as always I invite everyone to Read The Book Of Mormon, because it will help you in every aspect of your life.

my love and best wishes

Elder Mitts