April 16, 2012
Hola! How's life in the sunny OC? it's raining here today. we almost took our bikes out the other day but decided against it because we had too many appointments that were too far spread out and wouldn't have made it in time, and the rain just sealed the deal. that's probably just showing how spoiled we might be compared to missionaries who have to go out on bike everyday regardless....so my hat's off to them.last night we went to a fireside at the bloomfield hills stake center, it was neat to see a few investigators i taught about a year ago, moving along slowly but still receiving the gospel line upon line. the fireside was really really good. the speaker was Brad Wilcox, he's on the Sunday School Board of the church and was a BYU professor at one point. he was a pretty funny guy. but the talk he gave was outstanding. he talked about grace, it was a talk that just clears up your vision on things more, it definitely helped me understand God more. Here's a link to a talk he gave not too long ago, it's almost identical to the one he gave last night. i know i put a lot of links in these emails, but this is one you should seriously check out. http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=13436&x=59&y=9
Hopefully anyone who reads it will benefit from it as much or more than I did. Needless to say, I'm a fan.
This week went great. Elder Davis and I taught 34 lessons, 21 of them were investigator lessons. That's the most I think I've taught in a week in my mission. We're working hard and having fun. We're still finding a lot of new people, a lot of them struggle to turn into progressing investigators, but it's true that the more work we put into finding, the more people we will find who do progress. We recently found one guy I'm really excited about. His name is Dennis. We had a pretty rough experience where we got thrown out of a house by someone who was baptized a few years ago and has been struggling with some things, it just about broke our hearts. So we pulled over and said a prayer and then we saw Dennis right outside our car and both got a strong feeling to talk to him. We taught him that day and he committed to a baptismal date. He came to church yesterday for the first time and loved it. There's nothing sweeter than knowing and feeling the Spirit's presence in the work. If we seek for that, the miracles are bound to come. We're also teaching a girl who's preparing for baptism now. Her mom is a member but her dad isn't and even though she and her younger brother have been involved in church their whole lives baptism hasn't really been an option, but last week we invited her to be baptized and it was a miracle to say the least. just an awesome girl, her mom is super cool and super supportive too, the dad seems to be a really good guy too, things are just falling into place finally. we also started working with two little kids Collin and Caden, they're actually Kristena's cousins (sort of, cousins is an easier description). we started working with them when Kristena's baptism happened. Their parents want them to get baptized and we had a first official lesson with them this week. today we're going to play some more bball. but all this bball is making me miss h2o polo more than anything else....sigh. but really, i'm focused.
i think that's about it. our maintenance guy in our apartment complex is an ordained elder. just not in our church. he came by this morning to fix our dryer (yes we have a washer and dryer in our apartment, but i already established the fact we're spoiled), we gave him a book of mormon. i'll keep you posted on Elder Boon.
Well much love. Have a great week.
Elder Lamb
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