5/20/13 from Elder Mitts

This week has been pretty awesome, we have kicked up our working with the ward missionaries to go and encourage all of the members of the ward to pick up the ward mission plan and make their own family mission plan. we have already had some success, we are going to meet with a referral from one of the ward members tonight, to teach her about the restoration.

I am also working with some of the Brethren in the ward on a quartet of I Stand All Amazed. it is going to be awesome. i love that song, it is my Fav, so i really want to sing my testimony to the ward. we have the Elders Quorum Pres, the High Priest Group Leader, the husband to the Young Women's Pres, and myself singing, with one of the priests, Will Tenney who is preparing for his mission, playing the Piano. We had dinner with the Tenney Family, and Sister Tenney told us that her father, G. William Richards, was actually the one who made the music for the hymn 297. There are so many cool people here in the Oak Creek Ward in Irvine California.

We had an interesting experience yesterday, we got called out of the 3rd hour because a member noticed that 2 women had walked in. they were Japanese, but spoke pretty good English  evidently one of them, Maikao, meet with the missionaries 6 months ago, then moved up to Anaheim  and just decided to stop by to see what church was like. the ward time had changed to 2 hours earlier, so they got here later then they had hoped for, so we invited them to come back and they said they would come back in 2 weeks, we exchanged numbers and hope to meet with her soon. 

I am so excited to continue progressing this work with another companion, but am sad that Elder Lieberum will be going home in 2 weeks. he had taught me so much, and you best believe i got his address and am sending him some letters. hopefully he wont make me Trunky with letters telling me about all the fun he is having back home. Lol jk. well i don't have too much else to say. love you all, Read your BoM and say your Prayers and everything will be OK!