Dear Family,
Earlier last week I
was feeling pretty down and hopeless. I began to pray. As I was praying the
thought came to my mind to read the Book of Mormon. I grabbed my Book of Mormon
and the thought came to my head to read Mosiah 3. It was so clear that was what
I needed to read. I took some of the scripture out of context, but I read it
and I knew that God heard me. In verse 4 really stuck out to me and also verse
12. I know that God answers prayers. It is because he loves us so much. After
this I was no longer sad, but committed to go and work hard.
We had an amazing
week. We were able to reach so many of our goals! So many miracles! We met with Jesse on Tuesday. She said
she can't wait to be baptized. We committed her to be baptized on July
19th. She is praying about it to see. She told us she also wants us to teach
her 12 year old daughter so they can get baptized on the same day!
One of the relief society
presidents called us earlier this week and told us of a couple that was moving
in. We stopped by and helped them move in some stuff. The wife is active and
the husband is not a member. He was going to start meeting with missionaries
where they lived before but then they moved. He basically put himself on date
to be baptized on the 26th of July. Then we met with him 4 days in a row.
His name is Bob. He is about 60. We went to temple square with him on
Saturday. It was kind of an awkward temple square lesson for some reason.
The fourth of July was
good. We went to a ward breakfast and two barbecues. One of them we went to was
a neighborhood one and I saw a family from my last area in Kearns! Their friend
just moved into our area so they came with them to the barbecue. It was so nice
to catch up with them. We didn't watch any fireworks. We heard a ton of them
though.
I'm glad you had a
good visit with Elder Law and his family.
I love Sister
Christensen! She just got called as the Relief Society President in her ward.
Yesterday was her first Sunday as it. She let us come and teach for
15 minutes in Relief Society. It was fun. She is too nice. Her oldest daughter
would be the same age as me. She died in a car accident as well as Sister
Christensen's mom and I think her dad died too. I think it was when she was a junior
in high school? So like 3 years
maybe?
I'm glad they reached
out to Elder Kniffen. What city is he serving in? That is cool about Elder
Grant's experience with the General Authority. I'll have to try that out. Transfers
are on the 16th. Coming soon! Whenever we mention transfers to Sister
Christensen she gets so sad.
I love you guys! Thank
you for being so supportive. Ya'll are great. You are great missionaries too!
Keep up the good work.
Love,
Elder Alpin
These pictures are from while ago.
The first is when it was raining really hard we wore trash bags. Then the other
one is from the temple and you can kind of see how my chin was scabbed.
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