A Great Week For Our Investigators

Hi Everyone! Well, Sister Bat-ulzii and I had another week on the square. It was a good one. This past week we have had four referrals from Temple Square. I don't know when the last time was that I've had so many in one week. Heavenly Father really is blessing us. We haven't really taught any of them over the phone yet, so we'll see how those go...sometimes we never hear from those people again and you just hope that the missionaries there have gotten in touch with them.

We had leadership training this week. It was in President Gillette's son's mother-in-law's home (hopefully that relationship makes sense). It was a huge and beautiful home where just about everything in it has a story behind it. This home was up on a hill so you could see all of the Salt Lake Valley from the backyard. The leadership training was mostly focused on following the Spirit and teaching to people's needs, not just teaching for the sake of teaching. I read a really good article in the July Ensign about teaching the gospel...something to look forward to when that Ensign comes.

The best part of my week happened at 11:39pm on Sunday night...here is some background information: A few weeks ago we taught Lizbeth how to fast because she was going through some difficulties in her marriage. Her husband wasn't on the same page as her when it came to learning about the gospel as well as some other things. We invited her to fast for her family that Sunday and she sent us a text that next Monday telling us that she did. So this Sunday at 11:39pm (Lizbeth doesn't need to be in bed at 10:30pm ) we got this text from her:

"Sisters My husband went to church with us today!!! I believe that he was touched by the Holy Spirit because he cried a lot. God is doing an extra ordinary job with our family. Thank you very much for your prayers. God bless you both!!!"

I love seeing how the gospel is really blessings Lizbeth's family.

This Sunday we had the Finish Strong meeting. The Finish Strong meeting is for all of the departing Sisters and their companions. I can hardly believe that I'm already at this point in my mission. Basically the purpose of the meeting is to encourage us to keep working hard until the very end. That is something that Sister Bat-ulzii and I are working on in our companionship too. Our goal by the end of this transfer is to be equal teachers. I read chapter 7 in Preach My Gospel today about learning a language to find some ideas that we could implement in our companionship to really help Sister Bat-ulzii feel more comfortable with English and to help her feel more successful as a missionary. She has SO much potential and such a beautiful testimony and I want her to feel that way too.

Today we are having a mission FHE. I don't know what prompted the idea, but it sounds like it is going to be lots of fun. We're going to President Seppi's house (President Seppi is in the mission presidency) and having dinner and some kind of fun activities. I think it will be a good way to spend a p-day.

OK, just literally one minute ago our investigator, Amy who lives in Utah that I told you about a few weeks ago, called our cell phone and told me that she is GETTING BAPTIZED on JULY 12!!! SHE'S GETTING BAPTIZED!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!? I'm glad she called just in time for me to include that in this email...Being a missionary is great.