Hello!
It
is once again that time of the week and I am catching a Tan, it is
quite sunny here it's very strange for the northern part of England,
what is even more weird is it hasn't rained since Transfers, about 2-3
weeks ago. I don't to spoil the wonderful luck we are facing but I hope
it continues.
Yesterday was one of the best
fast and testimony Sundays ever, since this transfer we are building up,
we have just received two new ward missionaries and we have the whole
ward on our side. One of our ward missionaries has better skills than
some missionaries in the Zone. He has been dilligently stidying Preach
my Gospel and has mastered many teaching skills, he asks great
questions, follows-up on the last lesson we had, he shares personal
experiences and bears and always shares his testimony, he invited other
non - members to lessons, he helps find people for us to teach and he
turned to our investigator and commited him boldly "will you read the
Book of Mormon for 10 minutes a day? Will you try that?" after finding
out that he had not read this week. The amazing thing is that this
particular ward missionary has made this transformation since we have
been here, when we took him fellowshipping for the first time, he had no
clue of what to say. He is in his 60s and when he isn't with us (he is
with us everyday, for a few hours) he is in the Library doing family
history.
Yesterday,
our two new ward missionaries and various other members we had asked to
help us out in our weekly missionary work which was many individuals so
many that I cannot put a number on it shared their experiences with
missionary work that week, they shared their testimony on this work and
they encouraged others to do so. What brought me to tears was when our
investigator that we brought to Church, only her second time at Church,
she got up and shared her own testimony, which included her own
personal conversion and her testimony of missionary work and she is not
even a member. We shared our testimonies about the wonder of missionary
work and currently have the ward all fired up to serve.
This
week we painted some fences for members, a nice green spray which I
would argue 1/3 of it went on my clothes. We taught about 30 lessons
this week and we had 10 of them with investigators with members helping
us to do the teaching. Never has there been a time on my mission where I
have been so involved with the members. We have had tea appointments
everyday and all we have to do is call auxilliary leaders such as the
relief society president or the elders quorum president and they will
make all the necessary arrangements for fellowshippers for us. Part of
me is convinced that this is Zion.
We
have been quite busy aswell, travelling between Rhyl, Liverpool and
Birkenhead (the wirral) this week. It is quite busy, this week I was
asked was it hard serving in my home country? I would have to say no,
the temptation to slacken off and to mess about is their, but you learn
to give it no heed. It was quite frightening to see advertised £7 for
Liverpool to London on a train, but I love this place too much to care.
Something
I am proud of accomplishing this week is only doing 1800 miles this
month. We usually do about 1900-2100 miles per month, I'm happy for our
planning but a good reason is perhaps that there is only 28 days this
past Febuary. We had a lot at Sacrament meeting, we have worked a lot
with less- actives and many families came out this sacrament meeting we
had 130+ in attendance. I love my mission.
With Love,
Elder Sapaden
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