Bonney Lake Week 2

hola!

this last week has been a great week! its still so weird being in an area where is still cant really find my way around! but its great i love the bonney lake ward its a great ward with alot of really good people here!

this last week has been great i really like serving in puyallop its alot different than issaquah but its great! we had a pretty neat miracle yesterday at church, we walked in and we say someone that was in regualar clothes which is a great sight to see for a missionary cause that ususally means there is someone there to teach! but before we could get over and talk to him he came up to us and introduced him self! he is awesome his active grandma just moved in with him so he decided to take the church for a "test run" and see how he liked it, and needless to say he is now on date for baptism for july 7th! he is awesome he is 15 and is a great kid. 

this week we had a zone meeting and we gave a training on being a desciple of christ, for the first time i think i really started to understand why that is so important, especially for missionary work too.  it was neat because i think often times we forget that the most important thing to do is strengthen our relationship with god and make sure we are clean and pure, we can get distracted by so many other things that a good things but take our attention away form that.  when we are striving to be a desciple of christ we can keep him as our focus of all we do so we dont have those distractions and keeping our selves pure is probably the greatest thing that we can do for our selves and for others, because when we are clean we are receptive to the spirit and we can be used to help others or know what god ouw have us to to further his work. that is just something i have been thinking about a bit this past week i hope that you can take something from that.

i hope you all have a great week

love you

elder berry

Bonney Lake Week 1

hello!

 

so after 14 and a half months i finally got transfered from my area!  its been an interesting past couple days trying to get everything wraped up and move from some place that i had been so long. it was kind of funny it felt like i was leaving home all over again. it was sad though im going to miss issaquah so bad but im excited to be in y new area! i got transfered to the bonney lake area in the puyallop stake.  

 

this last week was great here in issaquah! we had some neat miracles and found a bunch of really neat people!  we started teaching one our recent converts neighbors she brought to church last week this week! it was awesome we had a great lesson with her and taught her the gospel of jesus chist andput her on date for baptism, then our recent convert moved her date up! she is awesome so she is on date for the 23rd of this month! it was funny elder riddle and i just laughed and went along with it. our recent convert will probably single handedly get this lady baptized! she is awesome!  

 

it was a good week i have learned alot this last week i think for the first time i finally realized how much i love the people here that i serve.  it was kind of hard leaving issaquah because i have spent the last year of my life laboring for them there but im so excited to be able to serve the peole here in my new area too!

i hope you all have had a great week!

love you

elder berry.  

Issaquah 1st / Tiger Mtn Transfer 10 Week 6

Hola!
hope you all have had a great week! its been a pretty good week here in the washington seattle mission!
this last week was an interesting week i definately learned alot though and was reminded of the importance of the basics of the gosple,  so this week we have had trouble finding people to teach andwe have been working as hard as we could and still at the end of the week we didnt really have anyone we were teaching and we didnt know who we wold be able to take to church this sunday and we tried to get jsut about everyone we knew there and nothing had worked out.  during this time we had been praying for people that we could take to chruch or people to come to church on their own.  sunday morning was kind of dissapointing whenw e didnt have anyone to bring to church with us but once we got to church all of that changed! there was 2 nonmember frinds that were brought by some realy missionary minded families and then one of our recent converts walked in with 4 of her friends she had been trying to get to church! it was a miracle! they all loved church and are all excited to come back next week.  it was just so neat to see our prayers be answered. it was just a huge reminder that God is actually the one in control and he can accomplish all that we need in this life if we just rely on him and put our faith and trust in him he will help us out! the great thing though is all of those people really liked church and want to come again next week and hopefully we are going to start teaching them all this week!
i love this work and i love being able to see gods hand in all that we do here!
i hope you all have a great week!
love you
elder berry