hola!!
so things here have been amazing here this last week! we recieved so many blessings and witnessed so many miracles in our area and all over the zone too! it turely has been an amazing week
the work in our area has been amazing we put three people on date for baptism this last week! we put skylar on date for sept 24th. she is from an inactive partmember family. she is 15 and absolutely ready for the gospel. skylar and her grandma came to church this sunday and it was amazing! they loved it. im so excited for them. we also have carla and angel on date for the 24th too. carla is angels mom and angel is 8 years old. they are a great little family but we have to get carla married to her boyfriend she lives with first so there may be some complications there. but i know all will be well.
this last weekend ray k. was baptized and it was amazing! he truely loved it and so did the ward! after almost three years his journey of searching is finally over and he has taken the steps toward returning to his heavely father! i had the wonderfull opportunity to confirm him and i loved that opportunity to bestow upon him one of the greatest gifts from our heavenly father. also this sunday andrew h. one of our recent converts recieved the priesthood! i was so happy to be able to take part in his progression in the gospel and in the preisthood! it truely was an amazing week i was able to withness so many mighty changes in peoples lives.
i ablsolutely love my mission and the miracles i have been able to witness!
being a zone leader has also added on the the crazieness of the week. i have never spent so much time on the phone before! we are constantly calling everyone in the zone and then we have to get numbers and then report those to the assistants its a pretty busy job! but i love it i love being able to work so closely with so many missionaries in the zone!
we have a big transfer ahead of us though. we have about the lowest baptizing zone in the mission but we have to turn it in to the highest batizing zone in the mission. we are well on our way to doing this the lord has poured out his blessings on this zone this last few weeks. but it is our job to keep the missionaries motivated and know that they can continue to see miracles and baptize. im so ecxited i get to serve here in this calling at this time in the mission!
i hope everyone has a great week and fun back at school
love you all
elder berry
Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Issaquah 1st / Tiger Mtn Transfer 3 Week 1
greetings from the great state of washington!!
so this last week was weird but good! a lot of unexpected things happened but it was amazing and im so excited for all of the changes.
so im staying in issaquah for another transfer! i think im going to be here for a while now but i love it! i also got a new comp sort of. im back with elder aiken my comp from a transfer ago! its crazy but we are actually serving as zone leaders together now!! thats kind of the reason why this week was so crazy. last night i got a call from president larkin and i was caled as a zone leader!
im so excited for it i love my zone and im excited to serve in this position! its crazy though cause i have already spent 3 months with elder aiken and now we are back together again. im exicted for it, we are going to have an awesome time here!
this last week e gardner and i tought more lessons than i ever had before! we tought 22 lessons this week it was a good week! we had a really neat experince too . sunday night it was 8 45 and we needed one more lesson to get there. so we parked on the side of the road and said a quick prayer and said "heavenly father, give us one more lesson, amen" then we ran out of the car. we chased the frist guy we saw down and asked if we could share a message with him. he accepted!! we tought him a lesson and he even said the closing prayer in romanian! it was awesome! it truely was a miracle ans a blessing from our heavenly father. it was really neat to see the instant answer to prayer. that probably made our week.
oh also elder L Tom Perry of the quorm of the 12 came to our mission this last friday! we all got to meet with him and he spoke to the mission! it was such a great opportunity to hear from an apostle of the lord. he spoke alot on the priesthood and how we need more priesthood to support the church because of its growth. it was so neat to hear from him. but thats about all that has been happening here.
i hope everything goes great there
love you
elder berry
ps we totally saw a bear this week it was so sweet it was in a members tree eating thier apples!
so this last week was weird but good! a lot of unexpected things happened but it was amazing and im so excited for all of the changes.
so im staying in issaquah for another transfer! i think im going to be here for a while now but i love it! i also got a new comp sort of. im back with elder aiken my comp from a transfer ago! its crazy but we are actually serving as zone leaders together now!! thats kind of the reason why this week was so crazy. last night i got a call from president larkin and i was caled as a zone leader!
im so excited for it i love my zone and im excited to serve in this position! its crazy though cause i have already spent 3 months with elder aiken and now we are back together again. im exicted for it, we are going to have an awesome time here!
this last week e gardner and i tought more lessons than i ever had before! we tought 22 lessons this week it was a good week! we had a really neat experince too . sunday night it was 8 45 and we needed one more lesson to get there. so we parked on the side of the road and said a quick prayer and said "heavenly father, give us one more lesson, amen" then we ran out of the car. we chased the frist guy we saw down and asked if we could share a message with him. he accepted!! we tought him a lesson and he even said the closing prayer in romanian! it was awesome! it truely was a miracle ans a blessing from our heavenly father. it was really neat to see the instant answer to prayer. that probably made our week.
oh also elder L Tom Perry of the quorm of the 12 came to our mission this last friday! we all got to meet with him and he spoke to the mission! it was such a great opportunity to hear from an apostle of the lord. he spoke alot on the priesthood and how we need more priesthood to support the church because of its growth. it was so neat to hear from him. but thats about all that has been happening here.
i hope everything goes great there
love you
elder berry
ps we totally saw a bear this week it was so sweet it was in a members tree eating thier apples!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Issaquah 1st / Tiger Mtn Trans 2 Week 4
hola!
well this week has been just a typical week in seattle, we stayed super busy and its been amazing! we tought 21 lesons this week which is the mosti have ever tought in a week! its been great! we have seen many miracles its been so good!
president larkin made a promise to all of the compainionships that they could baptise someone in july and this last week was the last week in july. it was a great week there was miracles all over the mission and so many people were baptized! we searched and searched all week for someone to baptise but it just didnt quite happen. we got so close though! one of our investigators , andrew, wanted to move his baptism date up so we talked about moving it up to this sunday! ( this was on tuesday) he seemed to like the idea so he was going to pray about it and get back to us. then his work schedule was insane so we coulnt get back on with him but it just didnt quite work out for this week but he is getting baptized this saturday so its all good!
it was a crazy week trying to get that figured out and then find someone else to baptise if that wasnt going to work out. we couldnt find someone to baptise to fufill pres larkins promise but we had a bunch of other great miracles happen like a less active lady brought he friend to chruch ( who happened to be an old potential investigator they we would try to teach) it was awesome so we are going to go and teach her this week.
also we went to have a lesson with our recent convert natalie and her mom was there! so we were talking about the plan of salvation with them and the mom was really enjoying it so now we have an appointment set up this week and we are going to go teach the restoration! it was awesome.
but thats about all thats been going on here. its been good here its been sunny almost all week! its only rained like once so its been awesome!
i hope you guys have a great week
love you
elder berry
well this week has been just a typical week in seattle, we stayed super busy and its been amazing! we tought 21 lesons this week which is the mosti have ever tought in a week! its been great! we have seen many miracles its been so good!
president larkin made a promise to all of the compainionships that they could baptise someone in july and this last week was the last week in july. it was a great week there was miracles all over the mission and so many people were baptized! we searched and searched all week for someone to baptise but it just didnt quite happen. we got so close though! one of our investigators , andrew, wanted to move his baptism date up so we talked about moving it up to this sunday! ( this was on tuesday) he seemed to like the idea so he was going to pray about it and get back to us. then his work schedule was insane so we coulnt get back on with him but it just didnt quite work out for this week but he is getting baptized this saturday so its all good!
it was a crazy week trying to get that figured out and then find someone else to baptise if that wasnt going to work out. we couldnt find someone to baptise to fufill pres larkins promise but we had a bunch of other great miracles happen like a less active lady brought he friend to chruch ( who happened to be an old potential investigator they we would try to teach) it was awesome so we are going to go and teach her this week.
also we went to have a lesson with our recent convert natalie and her mom was there! so we were talking about the plan of salvation with them and the mom was really enjoying it so now we have an appointment set up this week and we are going to go teach the restoration! it was awesome.
but thats about all thats been going on here. its been good here its been sunny almost all week! its only rained like once so its been awesome!
i hope you guys have a great week
love you
elder berry
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