We had a really good week. It was really insane, but good. This could be called the week of meetings. We had a really good zone conference and I learned a bunch there. We also did a bunch of reports this week and because the technology was messed up we spent a good amount of time on making the correct graph.
We did have some really good miracles this week. We've been teaching Brandon. You can tell if somebody is repenting by the way they look and by the way they feel. The last lesson we had with him we committed him to repent to let go of everything that was holding him back. It was a great lesson and we had a really good talk about the word of wisdom and how that will bless his life.
We had interviews with President this week. Those are always great. He is a really good guy. We went out to lunch with him and at the restaurant we felt like we needed to talk to this guy who happened to be Hispanic. Luckily for us Elder Bleazard knows Spanish. Turns out he was a member and has been going through a lot recently and has had some bad experiences in the past with some missionaries. We followed the prompting.
On Saturday I was on exchanges. We had a really good day. Things just didn't go the way we planned. We had a pretty cool miracle right as we are about to walk into dinner. We talked to this guy in his car and he said he was just visiting with his friend. We taught him about the restoration in the Book of Mormon and he said that he would be willing to give it a try. And then he said that he was eating dinner with the missionaries in the house that we were going to. We had dinner with him and the member and her son who was one of the people we talked to outside who happened to be a member as well. And we still had a good conversation at dinner about the gospel and what we do and it was really cool.
The biggest miracle of all came on Sunday. It was fast Sunday and we were planning on teaching Brandon how to fast so he can help overcome his smoking addiction. But things fell through and we weren't able to teach him before. We had a few members of the ward fast for Brandon that he wouldn't have the desire to smoke anymore. And after church we went over to his house and we asked him how his progress was going and he told us that he didn't even have a desire to smoke today! Fasting works! It was the best thing ever. That was definitely the highlight of the week.
I am doing good it is a short letter today but I had a lot of things going on.
Elder Astle
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| Sent by a nice member in his ward |
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