Jan 23, 2012

This week was an awesome week here!

Tuesday we had interviews with President Ward which was awesome ha I love when I get to see President and Sister Ward they´re the best! Then Tuesday night we got a call from the ZL´s saying that my comp had to be in the city tomorrow for a training meeting because he´s training next change, he´s gonna be an awesome trainer I’m excited for him. So because he had to go to the city I had to go with one of the other elder´s in the zone. At first I was kinda nervous about having to work with him because we haven´t really gotten along to well but it actually turned out really cool! We worked pretty hard and had some way good lessons! And we became good friends out of it haha so that was sweet.

Thursday was amazing! On Thursday we got the opportunity to go listen to Elder Russell M Nelson! It was so cool! He got there around 2ish I think ha I can´t remember for sure and went and took a picture with him and then we went back into the church building. But as we walked back in we got to shake the hands of Elder Martino who is a member of the Quorum of the 70 and in the area presidency over Central America and we got to shake the Elder Nelson´s hand as well ha he´s a lot taller than I thought he was. It was so sweet! Then we went into the chapel where we heard from President and Sister Ward, Elder Martino and his wife and Elder Nelson and his wife. Ha it was so sweet and the spirit was so strong! Basically the topics which they talked about were obedience and following the promptings of the spirit. Something that I really liked which was said is that obedience brings blessings, but perfect obedience brings miracles. At the end of the meeting Elder Nelson left a blessing upon all of us and the spirit was SO STRONG I loved it!

Yesterday we met with one of our investigators we have a baptismal date with. He´s always super positive and always has super good questions to ask us. We love that! When we first started teaching him he didn´t seem that interested and we kinda thought that he might just be taking the lessons because he liked this lady that is in the ward but as we´ve been teaching him about the church and the gospel we´ve seen his interest grow and I know he´s in it for the right reason. He had to work yesterday morning but was able to get off early so he could come to church, but when he was on his way there was a wreck or something and traffic wasn´t moving at all so he walked all the way from his work to get to church.

We have changes this week ha I’m kinda sad to be leaving this area but I’m excited to be going to another area as well! This should be an interesting week!

Thank you for all of the love and prayers

Elder Westwood