Too Fast!

I think the way I feel right now is probably going to be how we all feel when were about to move on to the next life.. maybe. Not quite ready, and it all just goes by so fast! Anyway, things are going well! We just finished our 4 day meetings last Friday! That was a really neat experience. Elder Hancock and I wanted to work as much as possible whenever we got back from the meetings even though we only had about 3 hours to finally work in our area. Well each night we arrived back in Elgin we took a 10-15 minute dinner and just went straight to work. That Wednesday I tried my best to apply what I had learned at the meetings and found out through prayer where the Lord wanted us to go that night. I had other plans, but had to follow the spirit instead. As I was riding my bike, for some reason this was an important moment for me as I thought to myself, "Man if I was riding my bike in the other direction towards my plans, I would feel guilty and unsure.." I thought this because I knew through prayer that I was not suppose to follow my plans, but the Lords instead. So we continued on that night acting in faith that these plans, (though they seemed so much less effective) would yield some type of fruit. We were simply being submissive to the spirit. Well we talked with one lead that we had which was cool because that was the first thing we did. Than we continued to follow the plans the Lord had given us, and ended up teaching 3 lessons in a row! The final lesson was a family of 3, they each became new investigators and accepted our baptismal invitation! It was an awesome experience! It wasn't until we returned home and kneeled in prayer that we realized what had happened. We had chosen to follow the Lord instead of ourselves. Even the night before on Tuesday we had a similar experience and found 2 other investigators who are simply awesome! So even though we lost between 16-20 hours of proselyting time, we still had a wonderful week! Elder Hancock doesn't know when I go home, I hope to surprise him at the end of next transfer at the transfer meeting itself. Hopefully he will see from that, that even in my last two transfers I worked hard, and rarely spoke about anything other than the work at hand. That I was never a "trunky" missionary. Well! I love you all! Thank you for your emails and letters! I'll leave you with a cool quote from Elder Ericson! "The Lord will pay as much attention to your prayers as you do."

Thank you so much for being the best parents in the world! I love you both and think about you often! Thank you for the package, I got it this morning! It really meant a lot to me! Well, time is moving forward, way way to fast. We have a baptism scheduled for the 31st! How great is that! A physical birth, and a spiritual birth! That will be cool! Don't forget to send pics of Matt and Jamie and the Baby! Thank you for your awesome emails and letters of love and encouragement, truly, even as a missionary you still need those things sometimes! I love ya!