This past week was a great week. We had some great lessons with our
investigators. And all the investigators that we have been working with
for awhile went to church yesterday! All of the ones that have been
struggling finally made it out to church. It was awesome to see them
there. We even have one that is getting baptized this Friday! So the
area is starting to pick up. We have been having a lot more help from
the wards which is awesome. They have been reaching out to those that we
have been teaching. Which is amazing. So now I just have to go and get
this next area going.
I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have had to get to serve here in Hurricane though.
You
always hear missionaries talk about how they have come to love the
people they teach. But you never really understand it until you come out
and really go through it yourself. I was sitting at an investigators
house. The one that we have been working with for so long. And he just
looked at us and said he didn't know how we could be so patient. That
through all his struggles we never condemned him or stopped coming by,
or gave up on him. And as I was just sitting there it hit me that it was
because we love him and his family and we know that he can do it. That
he can push through those things that he is struggling with through the
Power of the Atonement. And I told him that. That it was because we love
him. I almost cried as he said the closing prayer. But I am grateful
that I was blessed to meet Alvin and his family. And I am grateful that I
was able to meet all those people that we taught. I look forward to
this next area that I am headed to. But until next week!
-Elder Valentine
P.S. As promised! pictures from Our mission conference held on Sept. 7th!!!!!
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