March 21, 2016

Haha thanks for the video dad it reminded me of every morning with you guys and that is crazy about the whole thing in your trip.  Hey life
is doing great in Coolidge the days go by pretty slow but man the
weeks fly hard and fast I'm already on week seven which means I'm a week away from my half way point of my two transfer mission of that's not a lot of time but time has its ways to catch you by surprise. Anyways There is never a dull day or dull conversation in Coolidge you won't believe the contacts we get sometime. This week we were focusing on mostly finding people so that means street contact which I absolutely love yeaaaaa haha I learn pretty quickly that I need to
work on this skill. Truthfully I am not a very social person if some
one wants to talk to me I'll talk to them but when people don't want
to talk I'll stay out of there way, you can see how that can be a
problem as a missionary cause one we are suppose to talk to every body and two 95% of people don't want to talk to us haha. It has been a real challenge but has been causing me to grow and learn and as I testify my testimony grows. The power of the sprit is strong when you are baring your testimony it is good for the person you are testifying to but I think it is also for you as well. It is good to heir your own self bare testimony cause then your like hu that is what I believe in I'm not crazy. we had splits with another missionary he is the
district leader really nice guy his name is elder stanger he is a
great mission and it was an awesome time I packed my bedding spent the night at the elders house and the next day was working on his area. Elder stanger is a great teacher he was helping me on street contacting how to be more open more relaxed and confident he showed me proper hand gestures and postures which really does make all the difference when you are talking to somebody we have to show that we care cause we do care but sometimes it doesn't look like it. It all was interesting how the phycology works how if your body is open and you are relaxed the person you are talking to becomes open and relaxed. What ever is out ward usually is reflecting inward on how we present our selves. But we can be this master sales men (which I am not sorry dad ) we can be super great and prefect at talking but when it comes down to sharing the gospel if you don't have the sprit with you it they won't be fully converted they might be convert to that person or missionary but Intel you give them that opportunity to feel the sprit they won't have that connection. So how do we missionaries keep the sprit with us we follow the rules with exact obedience we wake up on time study on time keep our mind focused on the work if we follow Heavenly Father guide lines we are promised blessing and the sprit. Saturday we had a lesson with one of our investigator and it went pretty well but really it didn't we were stumbling through she was throwing us left and right and we were all over the place it wasn't in tell one of the members in the lesson bore his testimony she could fell the sprit and then she committed to be baptized and wants to come to church and ever thing came in place because of the sprit I love you guys keep moving forward and listen to mom she knows best.