another week is in the books! learnin learnin learnin!! lovin it lovin it lovin it!!!
2 more full weeks in here! so stoked to get out in that hot weather that wisconsin has to offer ...its so cold here. im gonna die in wisconsin!! haha...
so this week! saturday was felipe's baptism! so we started a new investigator on monday!! edgar...loves learning and felt that it was the right thing for him to do to keep learning. our last lesson we taught him the plan of salvation.. and committed him to be bautizado! but then he told us he is a strait up gangster in a gang...so we got some work to do haha
in class we are completely done with all the grammar and new language activities soooo now we are constantly reviewing! which is AWESOME. lovin spanish! gift of tongues is real! its amazing how much planning can bless your teaching as a missionary...we can even apply it to real life! the more we prepare the more the spirit guids us. ive been studying what faith is alot this week and how important it is! we need to have faith that we will receive an answer ....and when we do receive answers we need to have faith that that was the right answer!! we need to have faith in the spirit! faith that it will be our own liahona our guia in life wether its while teaching a lesson and the investigator needs a different message than what was prepared (happens alot) its important to have faith that the spirit will help you,as long as you diligently prepared, the spirit will put words in your mouth! i learned somethin pretty dang important this week...how important it is to follow even the smallest of promptings..this week while teaching one of our investigators elder shipp and i were doin great weve learned alot this week about teaching so we applied it and because of that our lesson was just flowwin and the spirit was definently there...i had a small prompting to just ask moteo how he was feeling... he said he could feel joy and peace... he needed to learn how to recognize the spirit and through that simple question we were able to testify that what he was feeling was infact the spirit testifying the truth unto him! through that we committed him to baptism!
i wish i had some funny stories to tell! haha elder shipp is a crack up...every night ill be tryin to sleep and he will pop out of nowhere and scare the crap out of me...18 year olds... brings up another subject we are the new zone leaders!! pretty stoked! our zone has grown from 14 3 weeks ago to over 40! by march its suppost to be over 75! tells ya how much missionary work is exploding! its awesome to see first hand!
anybody watched the new mormon message?(reminds me of all my amazing summers in idaho i think you will understand why) its great. we all have a father in heaven who loves us! i know it. ive felt it! im so greatful to be enlisted in his army! i ask everyday what i can do more so that i may be a more valiant soldier for him!
CANNOT wait to get to milwaukee and freeze my butt off! i hope those baptismal fonts are warm haha love you all!!!!
-Elder Harper-Smith
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