I need to get more creative with my subjects

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in case you can't tell, that's a skateboarder in the subject. if i were really good i'd be able to make him doing a kick-flip or at least an ollie.

hey how are you guys? it was a good week over here in roseville. we had two days of specialized training where two of the zones in the mission got together all day. it was a good experience. the assistants shared a good message about the success of the mission and the importance of giving the credit to the lord and how we can't afford to get prideful and lose the momentum of seeing all of these sweet miracles. (and by the way, one of the assisstants is elder bowler, he's one of elder ward's good buds from his volleyball team. he's been to our house one time in Portola. he and i talk about elder ward whenever we run into each other. at the mission christmas party he came up to me and said i looked familiar, we started talking and figured out he had stayed a day or two at our house a few years ago with Trevor! small world) and president holmes gave some awesome instruction. he's the man. he talked, broke down the idea of preaching the gospel and focusing on faith and repentance. difficult to sum up all that he said in two days worth of instruction, but it really was a great instruction. made a big difference in our teaching. after the days of training we taught lessons where we focused on faith in jesus christ and repentance, and used whatever specific principles we needed for those people, but kept the focus on faith and repentance. it brought the spirit into the lessons stronger than before. we had some really powerful experiences with investigators and members. The spirit is stronger than ever in these lessons, and people are able to understand more fully what we're all about. In some of these specific lessons I'm thinking of, we had members really open up to us and share things with us that we had never known until now. They felt the spirit very strong in these lessons and received personal revelation right there, not because of anything we necessarily said but because it seemed to me like we were simply preaching the gospel with more power and simplicity.

we found a street named Alma Street. We only had time to tract a few houses, nothing has happened yet. but stay tuned.

ah out of time, more next week. have a good week! i'm pumped to get to call and talk to you guys next sunday. see ya then! love you guys lots

elder lamb