Russell's Email 3-4-10

Dang this week has been so awesome!!!! Elder V. are righteously destroying this area! Last week we taught 22 lessons with members present (the mission vision is that each companionship teach 20 lessons a week with members present) and we are well on our way to teaching at least 20 again this week!

We also had a great zone conference with President C. where we talked about receiving personal revelation. ah it's so great to be a missionary in this mission. I wish I could include moer and more of my notes, but I can't due to time.

We have a baptism set up for this saturday with more on the way for this transfer and the transfers following. We got an awesome new investigator this week. She was picking one of her daughters up from school and they stopped us. They were both wearing BYU football shirts so we didn't think they were not members but then she held up a book of mormon and told us she was trying to read it and didn't udnerstand it. "I think we can help some with that, we understand a little bit of it." Well, she's well on her way now! She was surfing www.mormon.org and saw that smoking was against the word of wisdom so she went and bought patches to help her stop smoking. Golden....

This week was just so good and so inspiring. I love being a missionary and doing this work. No doubt it's true...

Elder V. and I fasted every day last week, from 10 pm till dinner the following day. Each day we fasted for a specific reason, and the Lord has heard those prayers and fasts. Since this sunday is fast sunday, I Want to invite ya'll to take part in the challenge we have been sharing with the members of our area. The scripture comes from 3 Nephi 27:1 " And it came to pass that as the disciples of Jesus were journeying and were preaching the things which they had both heard and seen, and were baptizing in the name of Jesus, it came to pass that the disciples were gathered together and were united in mighty prayer and fasting." Think of a specific missionary experience (right now) and then this sunday, fast and pray that you will have that missionary experience. Then you have to be ready for when it comes, because it will.