October 15th, 2012

Hey Errybody! So this past week the person we recently baptized got the priesthood and it made me think about his conversion, and I don't know if I have told you about it. So here it is: He came to church with his girlfriend who is a solid member in the ward and me and him had a nice friendly chat about church, sports, and life. I wasn't quite sure how forward to be with him because I didn't want to make his girlfriend mad. So this went on for 3 weeks, and right after church was over he called us and asked to learn a little more about the church. So we met with him on Elder Souza's 2nd day and while going through the "How to Begin Teaching" points we felt prompted to extend a baptismal invitation. He accepted when he knew these things were true. So we went through the Restoration and at the end we both bore our testimonies and the Holy Ghost backed us up. He told us that he knew it was true, and from that point on we taught and he accepted everything. He was just ordained a priest this last Sunday, and he is thinking about a mission. It was an awesome thing to be a part of. Elder Souza is a convert of a year and 6 months now and we have been teaching a lot of "Elder Souza's" We have been teaching two 15 year old boys. There names are Jared and Nathaniel. We ran into them this past week at a festival in downtown New Albany and they asked us for mormon.org cards so they could pass them out they ended up passing out about 150 cards! They ran up to us and told us that their friends didn't believe that they were mormon so they wanted us to prove to them that they were mormon. It was funny. Jared came to Church this past Sunday (Nathaniel would have been there, but he slept in! that bum) and he loved every second of it. He told us after that he loved feeling the spirit there, and he was going to be there every week for the rest of his life. He has given us 4 of his friends to teach, and is the most solid kid I have ever talked to. He is going to help us achieve the 30x31 and I think he is answer to a lot of our prayers the members prayers, and your prayers. Thanks :) Thanks for all that you do to support me and E. Souz. We love you!