Week 98

 Hey Mom❤️

This week was another hot one here in FL! We were able to find some cool new people and work with those who came to church from last week. We weren't able to meet with R this week cuz of how busy we were but our member brother B really pulled through for us and still invited him and brought him to church! We're gonna start teaching him on Tuesday! The recent converts husband and so came again which was awesome! The recent convert was even home sick but her non-member husband and non-member son still came on their own!! It was super cool! Another great one was Sister S who met with missionaries for 2 years and went to church that entire time in Texas! We had some awesome member present lessons with her this week and she came with her son and the members were BOMB at fellowshipping and making her feel loved and at home! It was so cool to watch! Things are really picking up nicely here. It's the hardest area I've served in cuz no one we meet wants to keep commitments, but Heavenly Father like usual has placed people in our laps that are ready to progress and keep commitments! He has been so good to me my entire mission in that aspect! We had many members come out with us this week and we were able to set up a member for every night and almost every afternoon for this next week! We basically had to call everyone on the ward roster to get it all set up but it will pay off. Member fellowship and support is key in lasting conversion. We have many less actives here who say that once they start getting actual visits from their home and visiting teachers rather then just post cards once a month that they'll come back. Now they are using that as a crutch and are making dumb excuses for not coming back, but who cares, we should still be willing to go out of our way to do anything we can to help even one member come back. That's a big problem is that wards focus too much at times on the big things and events and principles, rather then mastering and taking time to focus on the simple and basic ones. I'm not trying to complain about wards here, but if we would all do better at focusing on helping the low hanging fruit come back, it would do a lot. But sometimes we focus too much on other things like getting everything ready and prepared for Ward activities, rather then focusing on who we're gonna get to these activities who are recent converts, less actives, or non-members. Cuz that's really what the activities are meant for, is to retain, re-activate, and find new investigators for the missionaries to teach. Overall the ward I've served in have done pretty well at that, home and visiting teaching. Overall tho things are going great and I'm excited for the week ahead.

I was so so so excited to see that Tanner won 3on3 and that Stevo won everything besides ball at B
BYU basketball camp. I'm super super proud of him!!!

I love you so much!

This member has a bunch of weird swords and things that he showed off to us before dinner!

Elder Jennings (Middle Elder on the right of me) had his birthday dinner this week!
This member cooked a ton for food for him!