Birthday Week, and Hitting the 18 month Mark!

Alright so I am sorry for not writing a letter last week, and I don't really want to tell you about every day, because you probably don't want to hear how every day went, anyway I will tell you the best parts, and may be some of the bad! 

OK so the fun thing that had happened last  week was we had MLC (missionary leadership counsel), and that was fun for the most part we got to talk about things that are going on in the mission right now and how to be better and how to help the mission climb to the higher plane! After that we went on Ex's with the AP's and wow that was  a blast, we went out and saw a ton of people and taught a ton of lessons, got home later and crashed. The next morning we went out and worked again even harder, once 6 came around we (me and my comp elder Winn) went to the the temple for with a gal, that Elder Winn help reactivate and she was going thru, it was way cool for me just to tag a long! In the morning we drove down to  New Orleans for a Baptism for one of  Elder Winn's Investigators, and that was way cool to see that!

Last week was fun but mostly a normal week, I had my birthday Sunday with some members, and they taught me how to Cook gumbo and it was the best then she baked me my favorite dessert!  but on my birthday Elder Winn was sick so we did nothing and went no where... but it was ok there will be better ones in the future!

This week we had the awesome opportunity to hear from Elder Costa of the Seventy. He came to our mission and held a few zone conferences. It was such an amazing experience hearing from a General Authority. This is the 4th General Authority I have had the opportunity of hearing from on my mission, and every single time a special feeling has been brought in. One of the main things he shared with us was he talked about how whatever you focus on, that is what you are going to have success in. As I have pondered this, I have found how it is so true. If we focus on the gospel, you become successful in living the gospel. I believe that being successful in living the gospel is becoming more like the Savior, which should be our goal. Elder Costa shared many other wonderful things with us, it was a great conference!

Elder Winn and I had 4 investigators at church this week!  It was awesome and I really think it shocked the Ward because we have struggled getting people to church the whole time I have been here. Our investigator, Devon, came and he brought his friend James with him. James also said he would be interested in learning more. We also had a Part-member family that we are starting to work with come. Then the most exciting one was Steven! So on Saturday afternoon, Elder Winn and I were out tracting. We had set a goal to find 4 new people to teach and this was a lofty goal because we hadn't been able to find anyone all week. Well it seemed like everyone that opened up was interested! All of them became new investigators and we found a few potential investigators too. One of these new investigators we found was Steven. Steven opened up and we talked to him for about 10 minutes and he had plenty of questions for us. He then asked where the church was at and told us he was going to come. I have had many people tell me this, but for some reason I could tell that Steven was serious. Well the next morning in walked Steven to church and he loved it. Steven is from Nigeria, and is so prepared for the gospel!

    Anyway love you y'all so much have a good week!