Awesome week...

Hi. This week went by super fast but I guess I will just jump right
into some awesome lessons we had and the awesome changes that I can
see in my investigators. So we were able to teach the Lomeli family a
few times this week and each time we had some awesome experiences. The
first time we taught them about prayer and how they can recognize
their answer that this is the church of Jesus Christ. Elizabeth talked
to us about how she can't go to bed or do anything in the morning or
eat food without praying. She says she just always feels that need to
pray and it was awesome how she feels the Spirit's influence in her
life to have more of a desire to read.


We taught them two other times this week, once about the Atonement
and repentance as they are preparing for baptism and making a lot of
changes in their lives. The other was about the word of wisdom. It was
ironic that people were walking through the middle of out lesson with
tons of beer and some came in late because they were getting coffee.
Elizabeth and Angelina couldn't help but laugh at how many ways we can
see people break the word of wisdom just during a lesson about it.

This week we were able to find Olis again. We hadn't had a lesson
with her in almost two weeks but she was super happy to have us back.
She has a super funny cute little 4 years old named Jared and he is
really shy but has warmed up to me now and tells me all of these
random stories and it's super awesome. He reminds me of Blake and
Berkeley. Olis told us some amazing experiences she has had from our
visits. She has found a love for the Book of Mormon because she used
to have a short temper with her husband but after we had been teaching
her one night she was about to get upset when she had a prompting to
read the Book of Mormon. She did so and told us what peace she felt
and how it really calms her down, even if she doesn't understand a
whole lot of it. She also shared how she has met with all sorts of
religions but never let's them come back. But as we started teaching
her mom Costa she felt drawn to us and feels something different when
we teach, or what we helped her recognize as the Spirit. Her husband
never seems interested when we invite him to join us in the lessons,
but she tells us that every night we teach he always asks what we
taught her and she says it's a good way for her to remember what we
teach her and slowly help her husband to have. Desire to learn more.
But she bore an awesome testimony about how she knows this is Christ's
church on the earth today.

This week we had a zone conference and learned a ton about how we
can be obedient because of our love for our heavenly and not just out
of our duty. It was a sunder cool training. A stake president also
spoke and he reminded me of elder S. Gifford Nielsen that spoke in
last Octobers conference with tons of enthusiasm for missionary work
and having a game plan to hasten the work. Anyways, this stake
president was awesome and really got us all pumped to work more with
members and some really good ideas on how to help the members catch
"the vision." Elder Maughan also got to give a talk in the conference
it was super awesome.

It is so awesome to be able to have this technology to help others
come unto Christ. This week we were able to share a few clips from the
prophet and apostles and some Mormon message during lessons. It is way
different but really awesome, especially to help others gain a
testimony that we have a prophet and apostles. Love you all, keep
spreading the gospel :)

Love,
Elder Hyde