Week 7

Hey,

So conference! WOO! YEAH! TV! Hey, during the first two sessions I made myself a winter hat (beanie thing). Yay! No picture of it yet though. Ends up that I will indeed have to buy a bike. Bummer. Now watche me buy it and find myself in a car this next transfer, which is in about 2 weeks.

We have been teaching more and more people. Our baptismal projection for this month so far is 24. It is likely to rise. We are already past our projected goal. Yay!

There really hasn't been anything exciting happening out here. I was able to participate in a priesthood blessing for this sister who needed comfort. It was amazing how fast it happened. Then we met this guy named Paul Clemens. He is a convert and looks up to Paul, the apostle. Really neat stories he has. Was wondering how he could do missionary work, and we told him about referrals. Oh yeah! Elder Peters and I ran into this really cooky lady. She had the truth, she just didn't use it to the fulness. She said salvation is through Christ (correct) but that baptism is done at birth (wrong). She thought born of water means birth and born of the spirit is conversion. Elder Peters called her a Born Again Christian. I really wanted to tell her that faith without works is dead, but that would have led to an argument.

I have heard possibly the most honest and sincere prayer ever. Doug Dunford is an inactive who only made it to the office of teacher. He knows the church is true, but certain members drove his family away by their constant judging. This was during an exchange, so he is not in my area. He wants to be able to feel the spirit again, and he said he could feel it while Elder Kemer (batman) and I were there. He said he wasn't ready, but we came at just the right time when he needed it most. He is a film editor (YES!!!). Anyways, we offer a prayer and told him that we would like him to offer a prayer at the end. At the end of our prayer, he automatically goes into his own prayer. I will tell you, the spirit has never hit me so strong in a normal home as it did to me there. He did not have a Book of Mormon, so we got him one. I grabbed one from my bag and remembered that I had written my testimony on both. I grabbed both and skimmed over it. Honestly, one of them had the perfect testimony for him. I gave that one to him and he nearly broke down into tears (again). He said it was very personal for me to do that. He is the first person that I wrote down his mailing address because I want to keep in contact with him. It was a sad story with a great ending. Elder Kemer and I set up a return appointment, of which I would not be there, and left feeling great that we had truly helped someone.

That is about it. Nothing else other than a couple from Germany. I'll have more stories on them later.

So how is everything going?

Love ya,
Elder Waller