hello!
so transfers came again and im still in issaquah! its my 10th transfer here! its pretty crazy but im really excited. i have a new companion who is elder riddle from san diego. he is awesome he is six feet and seven inches tall so he makes me look tiny! he has almost a full foot on me!! im really excited for change and fow whats going on here.
this last week was a good week we did a lot of finding and just trying to build back up our teaching pool. we taught many great people this week. we taught a man this week who is a member of the church of christ and we has an amazing lesson with him and he is on date for baptism, but the reasons of why he wanted to meet with us were so neat. he was at his church this last sunday and the pastor said that even though it is a hard time in the economy they need to dig deeper and pay more money to the church. he didnt think that was right at all, he is also looking for a church that doesnt believe in marijuana, drugs or premarital sex. elder aiken and i were floored! its amazing to see that the standards of the church arent just for us and that they are commandments of God that everyone knows that they should be living in this life. it was really neat to see it was also pretty cool because he is a cardiologist here at the hospital so he is a really great man.
also this week i learned alot about relying upon the lord. our zone had a goal of baptizing 7 souls this month and we had already baptized 5 of them so this week we were striving to find 2 more people who needed the gospel. we ran all over all week trying to find people who qualified for baptism, about part way through the week we needed to be humbled and we quicly learned that it wasnt up to us and on our own we couldn't accomplish any of this, often times it is so easy to get in those modes of thinking that we can do it on our own and we end up cutting Gods role our of it, we think that it is all up to us and what we do but in reality it isnt up to us or anything that we do. we just need to qualify ourself for the blessings and be diligent and preserver and god will bless us how he sees fit. its been a great week i have learned alot i hope you all have a great week!
love you
elder berry
