Hello!

Dear Fam,

I hope that everyone had a happy Easter yesterday! I'm grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for his atoning sacrifice. I know he live and that because he lives, we too shall live again. This past week Elder Jones was called to train, he will open Dodowa(a new area) and I am really excited for him. I'm really going to miss him! Because he is training he had to go to Trainers Council and I was able to go to the Temple. I was so excited when President Judd called him because I knew that would mean I could go to the Temple. It was a wonderful session and I love the feeling I get every time I go to the Temple, I know its the Lords house. When we went to the temple we were about an hour and a half early for our session. I'm glad that instead of sitting in the waiting room they put us to work. They didn't really put us to work, but they were a little undermanned that morning so I got to work as a temple worker for about an hour. I sat a the desk putting the names on the screen for the baptisms. As I had this fun experience to things came to my mind. First as I was looking at the names, birthday, death date and birthplace I really felt the importance of doing the work for those that past away. I have done baptisms many times but this particular visit helped me to really see the importance of redeeming the dead. The other thought I had was how much I love the temple and how wonderful it would be to be a temple worker one day. I don't really know how that works... If its a calling or if you can voluntary? But needless to say it would be fun and I look forward to going to the regularly! Mom and Dad I know that you dedication to going the temple and prayers every week has blessed me so much as I have been serving! I don't know of any other way you could show your love more.             
This week we had a very spiritual lesson with one of our investigators named Thomas, Thomas has been a bit stubborn a has been putting up a wall lately. But as we read from the Book of Mormon with him, his heart was touched. I feel like many times in missionary work the people we teach see it as simply leaving their church and coming to ours. In this lesson with him we told him not to worry about any churches but to worry about finding the truth. Because the truth will set us free, he agreed that the truth would help him and we taught him that only the truth is what will help you to gain salvation. The spirit was very strong during the lesson and I know it touched him. The following morning I was reading in Jacob 4, I have read this chapter many times but it has never stuck out to me, and I can't say that I knew what it talked about but since my personal study it has become one of my favorite chapters. The reason why is because the same truths we taught the night before were in its verses (I believe verse 20 if you read around there you will find it) and the words which were said that brought the spirit into the room we also in the scripture. The spirit touched me again and taught me the importance of the truths we taught the night before, which is that the spirit will teach us of truth. All the things it teaches us are for our profit and that all of these things will help us to gain salvation. The lesson I learned is that nothing is more important than having the spirit to guide us because the spirit truly is our guide back to our Heavenly Father. 

I'll find out tonight or tomorrow morning who my new companion is so I'll let you know next week but we will have a lot ahead of us, so please pray that we will find some people whom the Lord has prepared, because we are going to be doing a lot of finding over the next weeks. I'm excited and looking forward to it, I love talking to people about the gospel and I love being a missionary and representing the Lord. Thanks for all the love and prayers!

Love, Elder L.

P.S. Before I forget, I learned this week that they will be closing down the Buduburam camp. The UN is going to fly everyone home and give them 400 dollars. I talked Elder Anderson at ZLC, he served there in the past and Buduburam is in his zone now. He was able to visit a few weeks ago, he said all the Liberian members are really excited. I remember some of those people have been away from home longer than I have been alive. I am so happy for them I know most of them will go back to Monrovia and I hope and pray that when they do they can find the Church! The people in the camp were as wonderful as any people I have ever met, they were so accepting, kind, and humble. I feel so blessed that I was able to serve among them.