Familia,
This has been such a rewarding week. We have truly seen some
miracles. Never worked so hard. I have been sleeping so well the past few days.
The work has been so fun.
First off, Thank you for all the birthday wishes. It was
probably one of the happiest days of my
mission. I felt so loved. Thank you for
sending all the packages and letters. I love the gift package you sent with the
t-shirt, grandma's peaches, some lego figures, the funny ping pong stuff, and
the food. You are the best. I love you family. Sam thanks for the Rubik's Cube.
I did it again before email today and my personal best is about 2:05. You
smoked me. Ha But thank you family again for that. I could really feel the
love.
Also on my birthday we had a very cool experience. We had
been knocking doors for a little to get our 10 contacts for the day and we had
talked to about 5 people. But we knocked this one apartment door and we just
did the usual Hey we are missionaries... But we just asked can we come in and
share our message. They let us in. I could immediately feel the Spirit in their
home. We taught both of them. Their names are Da--- and Me---. Both about 30,
brother and sister. Their family and parents are back in Honduras. Super humble
and they both accepted to be baptized and on a specific date. We were just
blown away after we got out of the lesson. It was a huge blessing. We haven't
had a solid baptismal date since I have been here. Almost 3 months.
With contacting 10 people a day with the Book of Mormon,
President promised our teaching pool will double. We have already seen the
blessings of that. This past week we found 5 new investigators and our teaching
pool is getting a lot bigger. We have about 7 people with potential to be
baptized. Their real trial is that they just work a lot and we can't see them
as often as we need to. But It is such a blessing from the Lord to have them.
We have been working hard and we are really starting to see the fruits of our
labors. It is some hard work.
We also met with a guy yesterday named Ru---. He met with
the missionaries off and on the last 3 years. He is from the Dominican Republic
and lives with his four kids. 3 daughters (baptized a few years ago) 1 son who
is not a member. His wife still lives in the Dominican Republic but she is
coming this summer. He is such a humble guy. We taught him a quick lesson
yesterday about the Atonement relating it to the gospel. At one point in the
middle of the lesson I just had the thought to ask him how he feels about
baptism. He said good like he needs to. So we testifies and committed him right
there to be baptized. He said yes to May 11th! So we were blessed yesterday to
have someone else ready and on date for baptism. Such a miracle week.
Great training this last week from the assistants. Talked
about three things to help our mission: UOF. U is for urgency. When we receive
revelation for our investigators and members we should be sprinting to our cars
to go give it to them. O is for ownership. Own your area, own your district,
own your work. Be humble to the Lord, but take ownership of what we are doing
out here. F is for faith. We need to increase our faith that the Lord
will give us success. Success comes from the Lord so we need to ask for
it. The quote was "Obedience brings blessings. Perfect Obedience brings
miracles." More correct: "Obedience brings blessings. Perfect
Obedience and FAITH bring miracles." So true... They know what they are
doing.
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| Famous Red Mill in Clinton, NJ |
Yesterday we had a pretty funny thing happen at church in
the new branch. We don't really have a Gospel Doctrines teacher yet so three
minutes before class started they asked us 4 missionaries in the branch to do
it. It was on Genesis 34, 37,38,39. Crazy stuff. It was so tough. We just threw
it together on the spot. Pulled out some doctrine from it helped the people in
the class relate it. All in Spanish. Then we had to help teach in Priesthood
and I gave a talk in Sacrament. Such a busy day at church.
Hope all is well. Pumped to hear about the new Stake
Presidency. Sounds like such powerful men.
Love you,
Elder Sumsion
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| Linger Longer at the second week of the new Spanish Branch |
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| A real New Jersey hot dog! |
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