Hellooooo family!
Unfortunately I sent my group email last week to a wrong email.. My bad! But I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are getting pumped for CHRISTMAS!!!
This week was awesome! Elder Dallin H. Oaks in a mission president seminar said that all of the missionaries need to refocus on teaching baptism and repentance. Elder Zeng and I did that and it works!!! We have five people preparing to be baptized within the month and most of them came to church. We felt the spirit even more during our lessons as we focused on baptism and repentance. So now I will tell you a little bit more about what happened this week!
I still haven't quite recovered from the illness I got right after Thanksgiving :P I'm losing my voice and my sinuses are all jacked up. But nonetheless, I have been going out and working to bring souls to Christ! And we've seen a lot of blessings!
Thursday we had MLC with all the zone leaders, sister training leaders, and President/Sister Mullen. We talked a lot about being bold and setting expectations with people. Figuring out what they want out of meeting with us, and then setting the expectations of what we will want them to do (which is also what the Lord wants them to do!). We worked on that this week and it went really well! Whenever we are bold in inviting people to do things, they are much more willing to repent and change! But I've noticed when we aren't very straightforward, people don't feel the Spirit and they don't feel like they need to change!
Sunday night we were able to watch the Christmas devotional and it was awesome!! I really loved President Uchtdorf's talk on gratitude. It made me really think about if there were blessings that I had been taking for granted. Every night, I've been
writing in my journal how I have seen the Lord's hand in my life that day. It's helped me realize all of the blessings that I have received. Not necessarily the big noticeable ones, but the small ones as well. He truly loves us and is always reaching out to us!
Today for our zone activity, we got together with all the missionaries and had a Christmas kick-off party! We played some board games, drank hot chocolate, decorated cookies, and listened to Christmas music! It was a lot of fun! Our zone here is quite a bit smaller than the one in Moreno Valley, and I like it that way. It's easier for all of us to build unity when we're in a smaller group!
I hope you are all getting in the spirit of Christmas and remembering why we celebrate! I love you all and miss you lots!
Love,
Elder Warren
p.s. He has four missionaries in their apartment and they all chipped in $14 to buy a tree and some lights! The little things that make them happy!
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