3-18-13
Hey Everybody!
This week has been fantastic!! We reached whats called the "Standard of Excellence" Which means our area had enough lessons, and enough people talked to to be an "Excellent" area! It was great!
This week we had an awesome lesson with a man named Jeremy! He has been in-out of jail his whole life, but he's finally ready for a change. We taught him once and he was so excited about the gospel our first time with him we set a baptismal day of April 13th!! We taught him twice this week and both times we went over the Restoration! It was awesome how the spirit was there, and it's pretty much a miracle of how we found him! Before i got here, Elder Florence and his previous comp. were tracting and found a Less active guy named Shawn, we've been visiting shawn about once a week, and then we showed up and Jeremy was there! He had just got out of jail, and was trying to figure out how to use a cell phone, so we helped him out a little then had a lesson. It was great! Shawn and his family (wife and two kids) took him in so he wouldn't just fall back into his street life! It is awesome and i'm so excited for him!
In preparation for the upcoming General Conference, our mission president has issued a challenge of reading about 15 chapters that deal directly with the Atonement, and t has been amazing as i have started to do this (We just got it on friday) that i could learn so much from just a few simple chapters! I sometimes, or most of the time, have a pretty knowitall attitude but its really humbling to think that i can learn something new every time i study scripture!
Thanks for everything, i hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Pickett
This week has been fantastic!! We reached whats called the "Standard of Excellence" Which means our area had enough lessons, and enough people talked to to be an "Excellent" area! It was great!
This week we had an awesome lesson with a man named Jeremy! He has been in-out of jail his whole life, but he's finally ready for a change. We taught him once and he was so excited about the gospel our first time with him we set a baptismal day of April 13th!! We taught him twice this week and both times we went over the Restoration! It was awesome how the spirit was there, and it's pretty much a miracle of how we found him! Before i got here, Elder Florence and his previous comp. were tracting and found a Less active guy named Shawn, we've been visiting shawn about once a week, and then we showed up and Jeremy was there! He had just got out of jail, and was trying to figure out how to use a cell phone, so we helped him out a little then had a lesson. It was great! Shawn and his family (wife and two kids) took him in so he wouldn't just fall back into his street life! It is awesome and i'm so excited for him!
In preparation for the upcoming General Conference, our mission president has issued a challenge of reading about 15 chapters that deal directly with the Atonement, and t has been amazing as i have started to do this (We just got it on friday) that i could learn so much from just a few simple chapters! I sometimes, or most of the time, have a pretty knowitall attitude but its really humbling to think that i can learn something new every time i study scripture!
Thanks for everything, i hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Pickett
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