June 10, 2013

Hey,

So this week was pretty good. We did a lot of finding and had some pretty cool miracles. The other day we were contacting people in the street and we met this guy and asked him if he had fifteen minutes to discuss with us, he said no he was on his way to an appointment and so then we asked if he would have time the following week to meet with us. He thought about it and then asked if we could just meet that afternoon. It was cool to meet someone really interested and to have taught him that same day.

Other than that miracle this week was a very normal week except that yesterday a member invited us to go to his house after church for lunch. It was a BBQ! So yeah yesterday was a great day haha!

This week we have Zone conference so that should be fun. Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Lerdah

June 3, 2013

This week was a great week! We had so many miracles and we definitely were blessed with the Spirit as our guide.

In our mission we have been going to members houses and blessing their homes to be places of attractions where those that search for God and Truth can feel the spirit. A few weeks ago we blessed a members home and Tuesday night we went back to eat with them and help them in their missionary work.

We got there and had fajitas so I was happy and then on top of it they told us all about how their neighbor came over and started talking to them the church and how he would like to go to church with them. I just about choked on the oh so good fajita (side note: I miss Mexican food so bad!) Anyways it was a super cool night and we fixed a time for us to have a family home evening with them and their neighbors. What's even cooler is that yesterday the neighbor came to church!

So the other day we were out contacting and we were having no luck at all. We stopped and prayed and I felt like we needed to go to a different part of town where we have never done contacting before. We went and the first person we talked to was interested. We met with him two days later and it was a great rendezvous.

The spirit is so awesome!

Okay last miracle for this week was last night we were porting and we saw two guys sitting on a curb on the opposite side of the street. We kept porting and then after we went past them they came up and started talking to us. They were betting on whether we were Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses and wanted to prove each other wrong haha. Anyways, we started talking to them and then we ended up sitting down with them on the curb and teaching them. It was a super good rendezvous and we are going to see them again this week.

May 27, 2013

Hey everyone!

We had a pretty busy week. We had to go visit all of the districts in the zone and do trainings on the new mission project so that took up a lot of our week.

Monday night we had a pretty cool little miracle. We are doing this thing called the Montana Way. When we knock doors we ask people if we can pray with them and leave a blessing on their home and family. We have been doing it for 10 months and I had never seen it work until Monday. We got to pray with a family from Senagal and it was pretty cool. Unfortunately they were not super interested in meeting with us again but hey it was still a fun experience.

Tuesday we went to Lorient for a district meeting. We have a new way of inviting investigators to church so we did a big training on that and that was cool. Its always fun to go to all the district meetings and try and help all the missionaries. Wednesday we had our districts meeting so we did the training again and it went really well.

After our district meeting I went on an exchange with Elder F who was in my mtc district and is now my district leader. It was fun to see how much we have changed in the last year. We had a good time on our exchange.

Friday we went to the P's house and did some service for them and then ate with them. They told us at the end that it really helps them when we come not just for the work but for their moral and what not. I can't wait for them to realize that the reason they feel different is the Spirit. I see them slowly opening up to the gospel. We are going to set up a family home evening with them and a member friend of theirs so hopefully that leads to something.

That afternoon we got a phone call from a member asking us to go to her house to give a blessing to another less active member. We went and it was a great experience. We were able to help this lady by giving her a blessing of comfort and testifying that Heavenly Father loves her. We are going to set up a family home evening with her and the member and I am sure that will help this sister start coming back to church.

This week is going to be great. We have a FHE set up for tonight with one of my favorite families in the ward and Pres Poznanski is coming to Rennes Wednesday for our district meeting so that could be really good thing. In any case it will be a good opportunity to speak with him and learn from him.

Well I hope you all have a great week!

Love, Elder Dane Lerdahl