Dear
Forever Family,
This week was
wonderful. I just love working with Elder Samuels. He is a great Elder and he
has a lot of enthusiasm. This week was a rough week. We have been struggling to
have lessons. All of our set appointments fell through. We set up a lot too!
The only lesson we taught was to a less active sister who is leaving to Eastern
Washington at the end of the month. The Zone Leaders called last night and
invited us to pray with greater faith. I felt that it was an answer to my
prayers on what we could do to increase our ability to teach. I'm going to try
it! It will be a great experience. Although we didn't teach much this week, we
found seven different potential investigators! One was a Muslim man named “J”.
He is from Afghanistan. We found him as we were knocking on the door of a
less-active member who moved. He told us that although he has different
beliefs, he loves to learn about other religions, and he will never refuse
anyone who knocks on his door.
I'm so glad to hear
that Jessica received her patriarchal blessing. I'm so excited to hear about
it. I also can't wait to receive your package.
This week, I'm going
to do a continual study on baptism and the temple. As I do, I hope to increase
my understanding of the atonement of Jesus Christ. I know that without the
ordinances of the priesthood and the atonement of Jesus Christ, we could not
return to live with Heavenly Father. I feel so blessed to understand this, and
to be sealed to all of you for time and eternity. I feel so blessed that I want
to share it with everyone I meet.
P.S. I was telling
Elder Samuels about how much I love to play classical music. He and I have been
composing piano pieces on P-Day. Could you send another package with my Debussy
piano book in it? I would love to play those pieces of music on P-Day.
Thanks so much for
everything!
Love,
Elder Herbert