Letter from 6/18/2012

I cannot belive that another week has come and gone... I don't think time has ever passed faster in my life.... It was a good and a bad week... We are nearing the end of another transfer, and we were scrambling to get people to church so that we will be able to have a baptism this go round.... It is a rule in the mission that investigators must come to church three times in a row in order to be baptized.... We have been working hard to help people understand the importance of coming to church... I have been fasting every Saturday that the Lord will bless my investigators and less actives with the desire and the courage to attend sacrament on Sunday... And no one came..... It made me so sad... and I had a really tough time for the rest of the day..... But I am trying to keep working... We have another transfer coming up... So that was a bummer... But that same sunday the Lord really blessed Elder Grange and I. We were tracting on Peppriepinweg trying to find some new people to teach... And we came across a family, a brother , and sister and her husband. They have lost both of their parents and the sister just recently lost her 17 yr old daughter.. So we began to teach and testify of eternal families....And the idea seemed strange to them, but they had the desire to believe that it could be true... And just as the Book of Mormon says in the 27th verse of the 32nd chapter of Alma.. If you will allow even the desire to believe to work in you it will grow. So we invited the brother to pray.. But seeing that the situation was new he felt uncomfortable... So E. Grange offered a humble prayer, and when he closed I asked the young man if he had any questions and he only said, a warm peaceful came over me.. I have never felt something like that before.. It was a mircale.. We are going to follow up with them this coming Sunday. The gospel is true.. Things have been going good.