These past two weeks have
been nuts! I am loving every minute of it though. Things are starting
to rock and roll here in the mission! I really love serving here in
Antelope, and I love the fact that we cover two separate wards. It is a
lot of work, and I am struggling to get to know the members, but it is
really a blessing, and a new learning experience for me. These past few
weeks have been not as good as we were hoping, but things are looking
up for this fresh new week. There is a lot of work going on, and the
Miracles have been pouring down. When I got here I could see that we
had a lot of Potential in these two wards, but now I think that we are
starting to fulfill that in a small way. We have had a lot to do this
week, that is why I am emailing again on Wednesday. I am going to take
some time now, and describe a few of our Investigators right now, and
how we are working with them. This is probably the first time I have
done this in a while so I apologize.
In our family ward, we have a bunch going on. We
have a lot of Potential, and also I few solid people we are working
with. The ward here is hard to work with, because we aren't allowed
into Ward Council, but we are being positive and trying to lift the ward
wherever we can. Here are a few of the people we are working with,
Mary, is a very nice lady. She is in her 50's and
she has had a hard life. She if very quirky, and can be difficult to
teach, but she really wants to change her life, and be a better person.
She has had a couple of Baptism Dates in the past, but she is still
smoking, so they have been dropped. We are still working with her, but
won't set a date until she quits for good. She is a great lady!
The Thackers, are a very nice Part Member family.
Sister Thacker is the only member in the family, her husband isn't who
we are focusing on, but she has two daughter that we are going to start
teaching tonight. One is 19 who has had a baptism date before, we are
hoping to set on with her and her 16 year old sister for June 9th
tonight. They are both really nice girls. They also have a close
family friend that is a member. So the 19 year old will go into the
Singles Ward, while the 16 year old will go to the family ward. Pray
for our lesson tonight at 7!
Stephanie is a wicked awesome lady as well! She is
in her late 30's, and has a nice husband, and two small children. She
has come from kinda a rough background, but is looking for some
stability in her life. Her best friend is a member over in the Citrus
Heights Stake. She is looking for a church to raise her kids in, and we
are excited to help her in her search. Just last night she had us over
for dinner. We had a lesson afterwards where we stressed the
importance of the Book of Mormon. How it is the proof of the Church.
We committed her to be baptized when she comes to know if it is true,
she agreed! So keep her and her studies in your prayers as well. Also
bonus points because she has a little sister that lives there as well
who is like 19, so we invited her to some YSA activities!
Now I will jump over into our YSA Ward. Miracles
are happening over here, and we are super stoked! It had basically
nothing when I got here, but things are looking way up now! Here's why:
Marez is an 19 year old black kid who we are working
with. We had two lessons before with him, and nothing really happened
with them. He came into them with the attitude of "I am catholic and
not joining your church". But some miracle happened with him. As we
had our third lesson with him Yesterday at the Church, he told us that
the feeling he gets at church tells him that he knows this Church is
true! We set a baptism date with him for the 12th of May! We got a lot
to teach him before that day, but it should be a lot of fun!
A.J. is also a young black kid. He is around 18.
He was meeting with some missionaries in the North Highlands Ward, and
he wanted to get involved with the YSA. So he started coming to
activities. He has now come to Church twice in a row, and attended
pretty much everything in between that time as well. We taught him the
Restoration just yesterday, and at the end we committed him to be
baptized as well. He will enter the waters of baptism on the 19th of
May. He has to quit smoking before then, but we know that as he relies
on the Lord he will be able to overcome that.
On top of these Investigators I told you about we
have a whole lot more going on as well. We are trying to get out and
find through tracting daily, but sometimes we don't have the time! We
also are working with a couple of Less Active members in both of our
wards, so overall that keeps us very busy. I am way excited about this
awesome work in which I am involved, and I am going to continue to work
hard and look for miracles. I feel so blessed here while I am serving
God! Well I g2g we got a lesson pretty soon!
I love your gutz all very much. Keep on praying for us out here we need it!
With Love, Elder Ellsworth
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