The Gilbert Temple dedication was awesome!

Mar 3, 2014
We had a pretty good week. But first I wanted to further explain the
people that I am currently teaching, I'm doing a lot more teaching in
this area than I have been the last few months! It's no Apache
Junction but it's definitely picking up over here in the Mesa East
Stake!

Rod- He is 68 and from Trinidad. He comes to church every Sunday
in these different colored suits. He is awesome. His biggest hang up 
is that he drinks. A lot. It makes it really hard to teach him because he
is hardly sober. We taught him the Word of Wisdom this week but I 
am not too sure if it got through to him.

Aurora- She is 8 years old. Her family isn't very interested but her
neighbors, have been taking her to church since she was a
baby. She wants to get baptized but her Mom says she doesn't have good
enough grades...

Colby- He is 10 years old. Both parents are members but they got
divorced. They rotate weeks so we only get to teach him every other
week when he is with his Dad at his grandparents. His Mom keeps
fighting him getting baptized, he also wants to get baptized but his
Mom is a major stumbling block.

Carol- She was a former. She has a Muslim husband that lives out of
town, he is coming to visit this week though. Super nice and we have
had some awesome lessons with her this week. Also cleaned up her yard
in the rain! A little rain won't stop us.

Kelly- She is married to a Less Active member. She got baptized into
Central Christian within this past year... Central Christian is across
the street from my area and it is a major thorn in our side. They
teach anti-Mormon over the pulpit... We encounter a whole lot of them. But
Kelly isn't too brainwashed yet so she listens. She likes the BoM but
hasn't received an answer yet.

Betty- She is a really old Catholic lady. A member of the Ward invited
her to the Gilbert Tempe Open House and she went. She isn't super
interested but we have her reading the BoM and hopefully she will come
to church this Sunday.

Margret- She is a Native American lady that the Bishops wife took to
the Open House. Super nice. We haven't taught her a whole ton yet, she
has been out of town and sick and stuff. But she really enjoyed the
temple.

Jeff and Margaret- They also went to the Open House with some members.
They were particularly impressed. They told us that they felt like it
was the house of The Lord. We should be having our first real sit down
lesson tomorrow. We talked to Margaret about our purpose the other day
and I told her we were there to help her understand the gospel and be
baptized by the proper authority. She said it would be an interesting
conversation to have with Jeff, so we will see how it goes.

There are a couple solid potentials that we met this week that I will
hopefully tell you about after the next couple of weeks! We stopped by
to meet a referral from some members the other day. Apparently the
husband is a rocket scientist and the wife is from the Philippines. We
knocked on the door and the husband answered. We did our Schpeel at
the door and he said he wasn't too sure about a message but he needed
help moving a tv. So we helped! His wife was super nice, super
Catholic. In the beginning she seemed really not interested but after
some casual conversation about the way our leaders are chosen (which
led into the whole Restoration lesson) she invited us back to bring
her a Children's Book version of the BoM so she can understand!! We
are going back tonight and we are pretty excited.

The Gilbert Temple dedication was awesome. President Monson was there
with President Eyring. They split it into three sessions, we went to
the first two and then I went and Skyped Adam! We had a really good
conversation and he is going to be reading the BoM everyday. He is
doing pretty darn awesome!

I had a baptism interview on Saturday with a lady named Julie. She was
super ready! She had some serious crimes from quite a few years back
but she has totally repented! It was really cool to hear how she had
been able to apply the Atonement in her life. This Saturday she will
be baptized!

In the month of February the Toro Zone only had 1 baptism... We don't
know what happened but we are optimistic for March. And rightly so! We
had 3 baptisms in the Zone yesterday! Things are looking up. We have
MLC this Thursday and he head of all of the Visitors Centers in the
world is going to be there! I will let you know how it goes, remind me
though!

Have a great week, I love you!

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