Hello!

Dear Fam,

It sounds like a lot of wonderful things are happening back home, [personal messages to family]. I'm looking looking forward to calling on sunday, I think I'll call around 7 or 8 my time, or is there a better time that would work for you?

This past week have been blessed to see some miracles happen in the lives of our investigators. We had our best week at church that we have had in a long time and a lot of that was because we have really tried to improve our work with members. Its not that we are having many member present lessons but our referrals have improved and we had some members pick up our investigators for church. One of these investigators is named Esther, Esther is the sister of a member, she had come to church a few times a long time ago but we have been teaching her for a few weeks. she had been doing very well and excepted everything we taught until we came to the word of wisdom. She does not see why we need to stay away from tea, so as we read from the Book of Mormon and elaborated on it we could see a change in her attitude towards it. We read the scripture you shared with us at the zone conference 1 Nephi 18:2 to teach her the lords way is different than our way and then we shared Alma 32 with her and invited her to experiment upon the word. She then accepted the invitation. The feeling in the room during that lesson was powerful and that it was testifying to her that what we were sharing was true. I know the Book of Mormon answers the question of the soul and that is a powerful tool to help our investigators feel the spirit. We also had Mary Offori come to church with her friend Irene as well as wisdom. We have been working with mary a few weeks and we were so happy to see her come this week she really liked church which was a little surprising because we watched General conference don't get me wrong I love conference but for our investigators it is hard from them to hear some of the english. She really liked it and I enjoyed teaching her that the foundation in Christ's church today is the same as it was long ago. Mary is a very elect women and we feel that when she follows what she knows is true the rest of the family will follow. Wisdom is very receptive to our message as well, for him he loves reading and asking questions, he has come the last two weeks and we are really excited about the progress he is making.

I loved conference, it was wonderful and as I listen to our leaders I know they are called of God. I loved Elder Hollands talk and Elder Christoffersons talk but my favorite part was seeing mom. Mom, I don't know if there has ever been a conference where you have had so much Camera time! I'm proud of you! I was able to point you out to a few of my investigators which was fun.

Last week we had Zone Conference and Zone Leader Council. Zone Conference was great we learned a lot about the Book of Mormon, how we can better use it and how we can bring about full conversion in the lives of our investigators. President Judd knows a lot about the scriptures, he is a wonderful teacher and will always tell us something that blows our minds and then he will come back to what he is saying like it is no big deal. He told us that there have been 2,900 and something changes to the Book of Mormon. All of them have been periods or commas or spelling as spelling changes over time. He told us that he has looked at every single change when he served on the Sunday school general presidency. When he said this it hit me that I want to become that familiar with the scriptures, now obviously I wont be able to remember all the periods and commas but I hope you get what I'm trying to say... if we know the Scriptures very, very well, it will truly bless our lives. I know this can not come in one day but is a life long pursuit but it will come as we study the scriptures every day! I love you all and look forward to talking to you on sunday!

-Elder L.