My President Letter

Some of you will think this story is cooler than others of you based on how familiar you are with missionary culture... Here's a copy of the letter I just wrote to my President:

We have this investigator that has been taught all of the lessons, and has been to church consistently for a few months. Her 13 year old son just got baptized a couple weeks ago, but she has declined each baptismal commitment we've left with her.

This upcoming Saturday, the Sisters in our ward are having a baptism for one of their investigators.

Last Friday, during our weekly planning session, Elder Broman and I looked at her situation and decided to set the faithful goal of 1 baptism this next week. If we could somehow get this investigator to commit to baptism, we could do a joint baptism with the other sisters on the same day. We texted her on Saturday and said "In preparation for our lesson tomorrow (Sunday), we would like for you to read from the book of mormon and pay attention to how it makes you feel. Please pray about it and ask Heavenly Father if it is true. We will see you tomorrow!"

Elder Broman and I decided to have a companionship fast in preparation for our lesson for us to be in tune with the spirit as we challenge her to be baptized the following weekend.

I have never felt the spirit so consistently. Typically in my mission, I have truly felt the spirit for a few minutes at a time a couple times a day. But the moment we set those plans in motion, I felt the spirit. I felt it all weekend long. Most strongly during our lesson on Sunday afternoon.

She was in tears. Her brother was in tears. It was a powerful lesson.

And no, she didn't accept the date. But I now have a very strong testimony of how setting faithful goals that make us stretch will help us to work more effectively and more by the spirit.

Elder Runco (One of my best mission friends) came back to visit the mission last week and we ran into him at Betty's house!

Me and my district hanging out at Pier 39 last pday