This
past week has been incredible! Lots of miracles are continuing to
happen! Since we are covering two wards we are able to branch out to a
lot more proselyting opportunities. We've been finding the so many investigators recently, more than we've found in the past couple months.
The areas are blowing up with people to teach and we are shrinking on
the amount of free time we have. The struggle is real haha. Not really a
struggle though it's amazing.
We
are teaching the Duran family and they are doing great. All of them are
non-members and so it's really exciting to see them as they keep
commitments to read and come to church. Ellie, the mom, is a Seventh Day
Adventist and so things are interesting because they are keep the
Sabbath on Saturday. She agreed to change it if the church was true. We
have been teaching all the kids and her specifically on the atonement
because her second youngest daughter has been struggling with depression
and we believe that will help. How does a seventeen year old girl have
depression? It's crazy how Satan will try to destroy such bright
spirits. It's sad to see them do it to themselves as well because of a
false ideas such as 'I'm not attractive', or 'I don't have any friends',
'Jesus Christ isn't real', etc. all of these things are false doctrines
taught by the adversary. Anything that is negative or that is contrary
to the spirit or teachings of Christ are false. Shoutout to my mother! I
love the activity that you did with the lap counter. How you counted
all of your positive thoughts throughout the day. You said that you
could tell the difference because your spirit became more uplifting and
positive. That is something that I've been doing a lot throughout my
mission. Really striving to have good uplifting thoughts continually to
help have a better experience.
You
were wondering about my trip to the doctor this past week or so. Right
now we live with two other Elders and they happened to be teaching a man
that had tuberculosis. One of the Elders in the apartment brought that
up to the mission doctor and he had him go see the doctor. Long story
short he ends up testing positive for tuberculosis and we get
quarantined until we had a test results back. So we ended up getting a
TB test. That was a long two days haha.
This
week we have another zone meeting haha. This month has been loaded with
meetings but this one is still going to be great. We are hoping to help
the zone internalize the doctrine of Christ so that they can not only
teach with power but become consecrated themselves. It's definitely a
life-long process but if we can strive to be a consecrated being on the
mission we can move mountains. As we were receiving training from
President Taylor about being consecrated I couldn't help but think of My
Dad. I can't remember one time when he was selfish and did what he
wanted to do. He was always giving up his time and money for his family
and I am forever grateful for that. In my eyes my Dad is an example of a
consecrated being. Love you dad. Sorry about not writing last week.
Hope everything is good at home!
E. Archibald
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