Hey! So good to here from ya again
I'll start with questions.
1. How's the weather there? Did Hurricane Sandy have an impact in Gaston?
The weather's fine it's actually getting a little chilly. The hurricane hasn't been
affecting us. It seems to be doing some damage up north though. I tried
calling Delta Dental to get a list of dentist's in my area but their
office was closed today because of storming.
2. How did trunk or treat turn out? Did you have other activities with it? How many new guests?
The Trunk or Treat was great. Everyone loved our costumes. Ozzie
(the guy who painted our faces) and his misses and kids were there.
(Sister Frye's grandkids) We should be teaching them this week.
3. Is your zone on target for the temple this time around? (Keep trusting and working and it will happen.)We won't be hitting our zone goal this month but Elder Memmott and I are doing great still. I'm just going to keep working my hardest to try and help our zone out as much as I can.
4. Have you noticed that more people are looking for the church?
Yeah, we're really having a lot of success right now. We've got
some great people we're teaching at the moment and I'm incredibly
excited for November. We have a pool of about 15 really solid people
right now and we're just doing our best to try and keep up with them.
The end of the month has been pretty rough because we're only alotted
1200 miles to drive and people are so spread out down here in Gaston. We
haven't been able to see as many people as we've liked to this week but
I'm super excited about getting more miles on the 1st and we've been
calling/texting them and keeping in touch.
As for a chain fast for {the man we've been teaching}, he's not going to be baptized anytime
soon at the moment unfortunately. Our white handbooks also counsel us
to not invite people back home to fast for our causes out here, but I
definitely appreciate your faith and excitement and prayers........ It's sad to
see people not reach their full potential but everyone has their agency.
Michael was baptized on the 13th of October so I'm excited for them
to be able to work through their struggles and make it to the temple
that time next year. I'm hoping they'll be able to press forward and
stay strong.
But yes this week has been great. Like I said before, we're
strapped on miles so the work has been different this week, but God
is continuing to bless us for our diligence and continued faith. I'm
really, really excited for next month. Things should be very good. We
handed Tammie and Jasmine to the other Elders in our ward because we
have so many different people we're teaching and they live the closest
to them as far as all of our investigators go. We'll be able to see
everyone else later this week so I'll let you know how they're doing as
they progress towards the gospel.
L & W are doing well for now. W's having a few
struggles at the moment so keep praying for him to be baptized this
weekend. He's really pure in heart and has such a strong desire to do
what Heavenly Father wants him to do. L's super excited and we're
excited to see her be baptized this week.
It's good to hear everything is going well for y'all back home.
Yesterday we had a stake priesthood meeting and it was really
great. We basically heard a lot about the hastening of this work and how
important our role as members and missionaries is to help less actives
come back into activity. Families need the gospel. It really inspired me
and got my fire reignited to see some less active families that need to
come back. The Saracenis are a wonderful family that comes to mind and
Sister Frye as well. I was on exchanges this week with Elder Staker one
of the zone leaders and was able to commit Sister Frye to read her Book
of Mormon everyday. I really hope she does that. There is such great
power in that book. I know that it's true. I just finished reading it
for the first time while I've been on my mission last week. It's nice
being able to have so much time to study out of it and get so many more
new and interesting details and life applications that come from
rereading the Book of Mormon.
That's all for this week. I'll hopefully have a lot more to write
about next week. This month is going to be really exciting for sure.
Love y'all! -Elder Nair
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