Hi Family,
It sounds like you guys had a pretty good week! I miss Pete that's for sure! And the Reading ward is the best ward in the entire world!! The Super Bowl sounded like a party, I heard the Patriots took the victory. All that food sounds like heaven! Wish I could've been there for that! Anyways this week was good! We were able to teach Avram a couple times and he is going to get baptized this Saturday!! We also set a baptism date with Sarah Loy! She is going to get baptized on March 14, and we have set up dates and times for teaching appointments leading up to that day! One of the members in our ward took her to the temple to walk around and talk about it and about what goes on inside and things like that, and it was a super spiritual experience for her and she received a confirmation that she needs to get baptized, pretty cool! We have been doing a lot of tracting this week trying to find new investigators, we haven't got any this week but we are hoping to go contact some potential investigators that we picked up this next week and hopefully we can gain some new investigators to teach! I realized this week that I have been on my mish for 5 months now coming up on 6!! The time is FLYING by, I have already been out almost 1/4 of a mission! I can't believe how fast it's going! It's sad to think about the end but hey that just means I have 3/4 left!! I can't wait to make the most of every single second out here! I love you all and hope you all are doing good!
Love Elder Summerhays
Hey Family,
It sounds like everyone's week was pretty good! Good to hear that the ward is pushing on reading the Book of Mormon! We had a zone training this week and there was a huge push on using the Book of Mormon in our teaching and in our finding! I guess a lot of missionaries in the mission have not been using the Book of Mormon as much as we should, and since it is the keystone and everything about the Church depends on it, we need to be using it and studying it more! It's amazing to see the miracles that the Book of Mormon can bring into people's lives! I'm glad that the ward is reading it and I agree I wanna challenge all of you to read it, If you haven't read it all the way through do it, and pray about it because everyone in the world needs to receive the witness that the Book of Mormon is true! It is SOOO important in conversion and I didn't even realize that until I came out on my mission, so read the Book of Mormon! Anyways this week was awesome!! We had Avram's baptism and it was such a good baptism! Avram bore his testimony at the end and it was so amazing to hear his testimony about the Gospel and how it has changed his life! He basically shared his whole conversion story since he grew up until now! He talked about how his family was atheist when he was little and he didn't believe in God and he actually made fun of people who did, but then he went into the military and after he got out all of that changed. He believed in God and joined a Church that didn't believe in baptism, so he studied the Bible and he found that baptism was needed for salvation so he left that Church and then he talked about how he was searching for the truth and then he found it and it was super cool! He also typed out a testimony and gave it to Elder Gardner and I! Also this week we found a new investigator named Rayna! She is probably in her 30's, she has two kids and a husband! We found her when we were just riding bikes around an apartment complex that is in our area! We saw her sitting on a park bench and just went up and talked to her and testified about the Gospel and the Book of Mormon, and she said we could come share more! So we went over to her house and we taught the Restoration, and she was asking a lot of questions which is always good, and at the end we left her with a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read and pray about and she said she definitely would! She said she doesn't like all of the religions because they are always fighting against each other and she just wants to know the truth of what God wants her to do, so we said that the only way she can know is by reading and praying to Heavenly Father to ask Him personally! And so she said she would and we are hoping to teach her again some time this week or the next! Anyways, that was pretty much my week besides the usual missionary stuff! I love you guys and I hope everything is well!
The Church is true, the book is blue, and Moroni is always on the ball! Talk to you later!
Love Elder Summerhays
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