hello everyone!
things have been going so good here! its truely been an amazing week we have seen so many great things and many mighty miracles this week!! the whole mission is on fire right now and especially our zone we truely had a blessing of a week for us and our zone. as a zone we found 22 new investigators and 10 new on dates! that is the highest this zone has ever seen! we have been blessed so much. the zone has been working so hard im so happy i can be here to see what is happening.
so after this last week the whole misson is running! they challanged all of us to run from person to person and from door to door. and believe it or not i actually love it. it has changed our mission because its given all of us hope and an increased desire to share the gospel with urgency. it makes us not wander around hoping for a miracle, to running talking to everyone and prepaired people are placed in our path every day. it is changing our mission so fast and the missioin is seeing alot of blessings and miracles.
i personally have had an amazing week with many really neat experiences.. but one of them was in a lesson we were teaching. we are teaching this girl who is 16 and she is on date for baptism. she refered herself on mormon.org and told us to bring a book of mormon but we couldnt take it to her house because her parents wouldnt like it. one day we finally got in and gave it to her then we didnt have contact with her for like 2 months. then we finally found a way back in we were talking to her about the book of mormon and if she had read any of it. she told us she was in second nephi! then we asked her if whe had pryaed about it yet. then she started to cry and she told us that she had prayed and god had told her that it was true!!!!!!! she then went on and tried to express how she wanted to join the church but she didnt know how. so we quickly explained batism and she is so excited! ahe already talked to her parents and has permission to be baptized!! we teach her a few times a week and the change i have seen the gosple make in her life will have forever strengthen my testimony. it made me realized that what we have and what i do as a missionary is real and it changes lives.
also we had stake conference this wekend which was amazing, but the thing i loved about it was i got to see all the people i loved in one place and it was a pretty rare opportunity. all of the recent converts in both of my wards were there, all of the members were there, we had a few investigators that were there, and all of my missionaries were there. i just loved seeing it, it was really neat for me to be able to look around a room and see all of the recent converts and be able to see the affect the gospel has made in each of their lives. it made me realize how important missions are because i was blessed enought to be able to see so many peoples lives that my labors here have benefited it was such a neat experience and gave me such a dirve to work harder to be able to help so many more people!
i love my mission so much its awesome! i love serving here and i wouldnt trade it for the world!
i love you and hope you have a great week
elder berry
