hello!
its been a good week here in washington! we had a bunch of meetings and stuff this week so im excited to be able to spend more time out working this next week!
its been a great week though we went back and taught one of our former investigators that we hadn't taught in a month or so and during the lesson she told us that she hadn't smoked in 2 weeks! she is awesome and is excited for baptism now, now the only thing holding her back is coming to church and that is our ficus now is to get her to church! we are excited for her! also this week one of my recent converts elder aiken and i baptized our first transfer together went through the temple this last friday! it was so exciting! i wasnt able to attend the session but its just so neat to see people let the gospel change them and continue to grow and progress in the gospel.
president and sister larkin shared something that was really neat with us this last week. they were talking about the way that we talk with people and the relationships that we create when we talk with them and then they linked that to pray and how we really need to talk with the lord. in the scriptures it most always says they talked with the lord when its referring to prayers and its a neat way to think about it because when you talk with people you have a relationship with them and when you talk at them those relationships arent formed and often times its really easy to talk at people or talk at god when we say our prayers when we are in a hurry or dont really want to do it. it was just neat to see it from that perspective that we need to talk with the lord in all that we do and help build that personal relationship with him to where he can lead us and guide us in all that we do!
i have to get going but i love you and have a great week!
elder berry
