April 12

Dear Family and Friends,
      This week has been really great. We had some slow moments like always but we have been having big noticable miracles that sustain us throughout the week. The trick will be to get to the point where we will feel miracles every day that will help us "burst through the frontier of faith and dwell in the realm of the miraculous." I think as we continue to identify things we can improve on and applying the atonement to become better at them. So early in the week we had a lesson with Isaac to teach the plan of salvation. We are trying to move things along with him at a fast pace because I feel that he is ready and he has no big hang ups with the gospel at the moment. The lesson went great, We felt the spirit and we are so excited for what the future holds for him, We taught him twice this week so we are really working to resolve any concerns he has and teach the lessons. Everytime we teach him he has these ahah moments where he understands a doctrine or principle that he never understood in his past experiences with other religions, it is really neat to see!
     We also had a lesson with Himanshu and Roena on wednesday, this was the big dog lesson. We taught the law of chastity...to two people that very obviously have broken it. Needless to say It was awkward. I dont think there was a good way to go about it except to just teach it. This really shows how novice I am at teaching that lesson. It was rough. We got to the point where we finished the lesson and they would not speak. Then the bishop took the reigns and he helped lighten the mood a bit, I am so greatful we taught this lesson with the bishop rather than alone. After talking for a bit, they told us that they had already decided on there marriage date. They will be married on may 22nd. Bishop Pemberton has offered whatever assistance they might need and hopefully... this work can move forward and Himanshu will be baptised later in may. I love this work, heavenly father shows us the way if we are doing our part.
      We had Interview with President Hudson in the middle of the week while Sister Hudson ran district meeting. We talked more about planning and using the right tools to plan for our areas. She showed us this large map of an area that was laminated where we can mark off streets where people live and where we have tracted ect. I thought it was really cool and creative. My companion will definetly use something similar. I still feel pretty clueless about the area here... well thats not entirely true, but I dont know it as well as I would like to. Interviews with president went well, he is awesome.
        So the rest of the middle of the week was pretty much just tracting and untinteresting stuff... so I wont bore you with it haha. But at the end of the week we got to watch General Conference at the Chapel. I have been looking foreward to hearing from the prophets and apostles for a while. I loved all of their talks. They are so great. I am so grateful to be a missionary now, back home I wouldnt watch all of the sessions and I would really miss out on some great talks from inspired men and women, But I am a missionary so we went to all of the sessions. Two of my favorite talks were the ones given by Dallin H. Oaks on casting seeds into stoney ground and the one by Jeffery R. Holland on the saviors role as Just that, Our savior. I am so grateful that Heavenly father calls these general authorities to guide us in these days!
      Overall this week was great. On a more personall note. I guess I jumped the gun on saying the bed bugs were gone, They are driving me nuts. I am itchy all over, all day! I did buy some bug bombs on saturday and we bombed our flat, I can neither confirm or deny that They are gone. Pray for me.
       I did get a lot of mail this week so thank you so much, I love you all and I hope you are doing ok. I pray for you all the time and I hope all is well in Bountiful Utah.