Elder Butler is going home. He leaves in a few short hours. Therefore,
I am receiving a new companion. His name is Elder Hutchins (sp). This
will be his first time being a Zone Leader so I will get to train him on
that. It should be fun. He's been out about 16 months. I've never
served around him before but I've heard good things. Although it doesn't
really matter who I get as a companion at this point I'd be happy with
anyone. Elder Hutchins will be great.
Hey! I don't know if you heard. The church announced
58 new missions worldwide. 3 of those are the Washington Federal Way
Mission (Seattle area), Oregon Salem Mission, and the Washington
Vancouver Mission! That means that our mission is splitting in the near
future. Around July. So for the last month of my mission I will either
be serving in the Washington Kennewick mission or the Washington
Vancouver mission. They have already announced the new mission president
that will replace President Greer and the new one that will open up the
WVM. We just had a new Assistant to the President called too and he is a
really young missionary to be called as AP. I am assuming that is
because he will need to help the new Mission president with all the
changes. We also had some traveling Zone Leaders called to help with the
training of new missionaries. That might be in preparation for the
split too. Exciting times! We'll learn more with time.
This last week was a good one. I wanted to make sure
that Elder Butler went out with a bang! I didn't want him to get lazy
in the last few days. So we set a goal at the beginning of this week to
get 100 OYM's (street contacts) and 10 New Investigators. I've never had
over 85 OYM's my whole mission So we were going to have to knock a lot
of doors (and we did). and the 10 new investigators would be a lot for
the current area that we are serving in. Long story short, we did it! We
ended with 102 OYM's and 12 New investigators.
The Lord definitely blessed us in both goals. We made the necessary
plans to achieve them and the Lord made up the rest. The very first
night of the week we went to Rebecca's home. She is a potential
investigator who's door we knocked on a few weeks ago. She let us right
in and we met her four kids. Ages 13, 15 ,16, and 17. We taught them
about the Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment. 5 new
investigators on day one! It's not a common occurrence to find a whole
family to teach. And then on Saturday evening. We tried back by Kim. She
let us in and we met her Husband and one of her boys. We taught about
The Book of Mormon and prophets and set a return appointment. 3 more new
investigators! And two new families to teach! All in one week. This
week was a definite confirmation for me that the Lord will make all good
things possible (1 Ne 3:7).
Ummm. I think that's all. The whole family is in my prayers. Especially the St. Johns.
Love,
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