2/25/13

Hello family and friends!

This week was a really good week! We got two new elders in our area. One is actually from Orem but he went to timp so i didnt know him. Anyways so now we only cover half our area which is nice because it was huge in the first place!

We spend at least 2 hours each day tracting. Its a lot easier now im not near as nervous as i was but still can be a little nervous. Everyone here is super nice though they all will say i respect what you do and think that it is amazing! But then they say that they are strong in their faith and dont need a book of mormon or anything like that. Its not very effective in my opinion, we only found one new investigator out of the tracting we did. But i do like talking to people everyone has such nice things to say about us but thats all never do they want to hear a message.
We got a referral from the Spanish sister though of a young mom age 22 and she has two little boys and a baby girl that passed away recently. We talked to her about the plan of salvation a little and she was so happy and excited about it! It made me really think about it and how grateful i am to have this knowledge ( well all of us ) and that we know what happens after death! So im excited to go back and teach her!

I had a cool little testimony builder yesterday, ive always been nervous about having inspirations from the holy ghost. I never hear a voice like its talked about. So yesterday while we were sitting in the car thinking what we should do i was looking over our plans and someone came to my mind to go visit. Their names are Nathan and Taylor a cute couple with a child. We have been trying to visit them for weeks now and never get to see them. So i thought lets go see them and we did and Nathan was outside and we started teaching him about the book of mormon and his wife then came out and we started teaching her about it as well! And they told us that about an hour ago they were just talking about how they wanted to follow christ more and find a true church. And then we showed up! we invited them to church and to be baptized and they said yes! It really helped me know that not all the time is the holy ghost going to speak to me or do something dramatic. Thoughts and feelings is how he works. It made me so happy! :)

I know this is the true church on earth. And im so grateful to be a part of it.

Love
Elder Boettcher