February 9, 2016

Hey Family,

I was pretty bummed to hear that the Panthers lost but I guess that's good for Peyton to have won the last super bowl of his career. It sounds like you guys had a good time on super bowl Sunday with the family! 

This week was sweet! Elder Olsen is getting used to the mission life and he is loving it! He is a really hard worker and is going to be a great missionary! We get along really well and we've seen some sweet miracles this week! First of all we taught one of our new investigators named Holly. We had contacted her a couple weeks ago and she had some good questions about our beliefs and some objections but they were sincere. So after that we set up a return appointment with her for this week. We taught her the Restoration and she had a lot of questions and a couple more concerns. It was a really good lesson and we were able to answer her questions and concerns and invited her to read the Book of Mormon. She said she would read it and study it thoroughly and next time we came she would have a lot to talk about! Then we invited her to church and she made us a deal that if we came to her church this Wednesday that she would come to ours! So tomorrow we are going to a Baptist church so that will be a good time haha! 

We had zone training this week and it was a little weird sitting in the audience haha, but it was a great training on referrals and contacting! We set goals as a zone for this month and Elder Olsen and I set a goal to get 2 baptisms this month and in order to do that we needed to move Stephanie's date forward a couple weeks, and so we set a goal to do that, then the next day on Saturday we got a missed call from Stephanie and in the voicemail she said that she has been thinking and praying about things and she keeps having this recurring dream that is telling her that she needs to get baptized sooner and she is ready!! So we were pumped and we called her back and asked when she feels like she should be baptized and she said next Saturday!! Haha so Stephanie will be getting baptized this week! It is so cool to see how when we set a righteous goal and work hard to achieve it, the Lord provides a way for it to happen! This week was awesome, and this next week is going to be even better!

Thanks for all that you guys do for me and I love all of you and miss you! Keep doing what's right! 

Love Elder Summerhays