hello everyone!
so the rain is back... i cant decide if i love it or hate it yet. but i think the excitement of cooler weather will rub off in a few days of not seing the sun! but things here are good. we had an insanely busy week, we had a ton of meetings with elder edwards coming here and then we went to the temple too. it was a crazy but great week.
we had a great baptism on saturday! we baptized lisa she is a great lady, we had a great little baptism service( and by little i mean like 7 people came). but it was great she absolutley loved it. we were so excited for her and she was so excited because she absolutely loves the gospel and she has felt the healing effects of the atonement in her life. she is great and she has an eight year old daughter that we are going to try to baptise this next weekend but she doesnt like to sit still very long so its going to be interesting!
elder edwards came to the mission this week! that was amazing!!! he is such a great speaker! we had a zone conference with him almost all day and then we had the opportunity to go back that night to a fireside for investigators and recent converts and it was amazing we had a few investigators with us and one of our recent converts and it was such a powerfull meeting! i really enjoyed listening to him speak he is truely an inspired man. probably the main thing that i took away from him speaking is the fact that we cant just do minimums. in life and in the gospel if we jsut do minimums we dont get anywhere but we need to sacrafice and do all we can to make progress in what ever we do. he also talked alot on the healing power of the atonement and once we understand that we will become the greatest missionaries because we will have a strong desire to share the gospel with everyone we see, and help bring them back through the waters of batpism.
i also had a great opportuninty to meet with him one on one after the meeting. he interviewed all of the zone leaders in the mission! it was amazing cause how often do you get to be interviewed by a general authority!!!! it was sweet, but it was kind of sad i though of all the good questions to ask him after our interview was over... but it was still amazing.
oh also saturday night elder aiken and i were tracting out on tiger mountain where it is very rural and it was late and pitch black and raining. and we knocked on this one door and someone came to the door. and with out opening the door asked who was there, so we said "its the missionaries" then it went silent... a few seconds later we heard a round drop into a gun and then they cocked the shotgun! then the door opened and there was a guy standing there (who didnt look to happy to see us) holding a shot gun behind the door. he was pretty short with us and told us he wasnt interested and to leave and needless to say we left alright. we ran to the car and i mean RAN. and drove far away from there. we thought we were going to die! but it was a fun night tracting out in tiger mountain!
well i hope everyone has a great week
love you
elder berry
