From: eric.feller@myldsmail.net
I hit two years last Saturday!! Its crazy. I'm supposed to be flying home tomorrow, but I'm not! Its kind of a weird feeling. I have my departing dinner tonight with all the guys I came out with. Then they leave and I stay.
This week was crazy. We had a ton of lessons so it was really good.
On
Monday we taught a new guy. His name is Gibson, he's from New Jersey
but his family came from Haiti, but he works at a prison here. He came
to the singles ward with a girl. It was a tough lesson because he told
us he didn't believe in God... So we tried our best. We're meeting with
him again soon.
Tuesday we taught Alex again. We finally pinned him
down to a baptism date! August 11th. And I told his mom I was going home
after that to guilt her into keeping it on that day... Was that bad? I
thought it worked really well...
Wednesday we taught AJ in the morning. He is
seriously doing amazing. I cant even believe it. We talked about the
first principles and ordinances of the Gospel, and he just gets it! He's
super excited about being baptized on the 11th. We talked alot about
repentance, and then we could tell he was thinking, and then he told us,
"I think I've started my repentance process without knowing it." And we
were blown away. The next day we went to the visitors center with him
in the morning as well. He was pretty touched by it. It was good for him
to visualize everything that happened.
Wednesday night we also taught Mason, the guy who
was excommunicated. The lesson went really well. We tried teaching one
thing and then ended up teaching another... We just talked a lot about
the Atonement. Then we gave him a blessing after. It was a super
spiritual lesson.
Thursday we had another incident with that same
district leader I talked about before. He was accusing his companion of
not having a testimony that Joesph Smith was a prophet, because he was
writing in his journal at 10:30 at night, when he was supposed to be
sleeping. Its ridiculous, I know. This guy is a tool. That's the only
way to describe him. We went over at 8:30 in the morning, and ...
corrected him... Sharply. I had had it. I was done dealing with him. So I
just let him know exactly how I felt about everything he's done. It was
not nice.
On Sunday, we taught Lance again. He's doing great.
Still on track for the 4th. We taught him all the commandments, and he's
all good. We settled some things about the baptism as well. I guess his
girl friends mom was freaking out because she wanted the program to be
perfect, and I guess she thinks we've never done this before or
something. haha. That's ok. We'll try extra hard.
That was all the highlights from the week!
Love,
Elder Feller
2 years! That's amazing! I get chills from your awesomeness for sure. I can't believe how many investigators you have in the works right now. They all sound like great people. I love hearing you put the smack-down on other elders. You are truly ready to major in becoming a businessman of America! =) Lincoln saw a poster for the new Batman movie and it was kind of a shadowy kind of thing. He said, "You know Batman kind of looks like Daniel." So, you've been on a "mission" these last couple of years, huh? Don't worry, I said, "No, he's cooler than Batman...he's a missionary." We are thrilled that you're last few weeks are going well and that you are still working hard. Love your guts!
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