May 24, 2010

Hello Family,

How's everyone doing it sure sounds as though there is a lot going on back home with Kami coming home and Jenny preparing to enter the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. I feel a little sad that i can't be there for it but at the same time the joy that i am receiving here in doing to lord's work is definitely topping everything else right now ahhahaha.

Thanks Jenny for the invite to you temple sealing although i was contemplating if that was something nice you were trying to do or if it was some kind of sick joke because you knew i would not be able to attend. haha jk. Well this week i got a new companion elder Albuquerque he's the bomb and i love his face off. Yep Kami he's from Brazil Racifi and i'm going to start learning Portuguese from him, well probably not just enough like tutdo bem. haha. I literally had to ask him just barely to tell me how to spell it. Any how he's really a fire ball and i love it it's exactly what i needed because i was getting a little comfortable.

Well we just confirmed Schaine Howard on Sunday and we are working with some other cool people right now. First off we have Jay Marrieta is in school right now going to full sail doing film. We just contacted him outside after we had got done talking to a recent convert. He's way cool and even has an Lds friend in our ward who's been sharing bits and pieces about the church with him. We taught him on Saturday at the member's home and it went very well. He came to church yesterday and we will be teaching him again on Saturday we are way excited for him.

Tevin is the other investigator we are working with and he also attends full sail in fact most of our investigators do attend full sail. He's going into show business or what they call show pro here. He's from Virginia and his parents work in the cia, he's really cool and comes from a baptist background but he knows the book of Mormon is true. In fact when we challenged him for baptism he didn't accept because he said that he joined a church once and slowly found out that they didn't have the same beliefs. So he wants to make sure that he's willing to follow this and believes the same way. We are just praying for him because we know it will come down to him exercising faith because he will never know everything before he joins. He's coming to FHE tonight and we are going to have our members fellowship him and share their baptismal experiences with him. He says he loves it though when we come over and looks forward to our visits and it makes our visits so much more effective when they recognize the spirit.

Well not a whole lot else is going on but I'll hopefully have good news for you next week.

Love Elder Judd

May 17, 2010

Hey my family,

What a great week i have had full of it's fun and ups and downs. Any one reading this I'm sure can relate the downs were on my own part i got a little lazy at a couple of points and what made it worst was that i got really mad at myself because i know better. Anyways after i got over that i had the most amazing Sunday i have ever had in my whole life.

Sunday was great for many different reasons. First of all Schain our investigator who was getting baptized that day showed up. Second of all We were able to get Tevin, one of our investigators, to church. Third of all at church he received great fellowship that really made him feel so comfortable and he just kept telling us what a great experience he had. Fourth of all during sacrament meeting we have six brethren who bless and pass the sacrament and five out of the six had been baptized that year sweet. We have been so blessed it's truly amazing. Fifth was that Tevin played the piano in priesthood. It really is true that as soon as you go to the Mormon church you are put to work right away hahahaha. Sixth was the baptism right after church because Schaine just really had a hard time going all the way under and was baptized three times in order to get him fully emerged. Seventh was Dinner at the bishops house with all the recent converts and even a couple of investigators and the spirit was so strong, in fact we got to watch the prophet of the restoration with all of the them. Plus Bishops wife is a great cook and really we don't get a home cooked meal that often in the singles ward so we were loving it so much. That was the conclusion of my Sunday and the best Sunday of my life i will always remember the miracles I saw that day because truly that is what they are.

love Elder Judd

May 3, 2010

Dear Family,

Thanks for all of the support i really appreciate it, i can really feel the power of your prayers and the stregnth that I've recieved out here on my mission. WE've seen many miracles out here it's been great. Just this last weekend we had two investigators at church and we set baptismal dates with them both for this weekend and we are really excited for them both.

First off Schaine, he is a member referral who has been taught for a long time between two different sets of missionaries. Well we just called him up and asked if he was ready to listen again and he said he is. Well this week he came to church and we set a baptismal date with him for next weekend. We are trying to make sure that he is truly converted by the spirit and not because of his girlfriend but we do have plans to address the concerns.

The other one is a huge miracle similiar to Olivias experience. Alexandra from Peru just walked in on a Friday night while our singles ward was having a variety show, or talent show. On Sunday we set a date with her and now she is sweet, she even came to the CES fireside last night it really is working out perfectly and the lord is really blessing us and we are just having fun. The lords work is so much fun i love we just go around and challenge people all day and the spirit just makes us so happy the gospel really is happiness i love it.

Sometimes things can be a little overwhelming but as we turn to the atonement of Jesus christ we can find rest. I know this is true because i felt this relief that comes. I really love this work it's great.

Kami i feel so bad for you that stinks your going home or actually probably home now when reading this. I feel so blessed cause i still have eight months left, but you are done no more missionary work. However i know you have no regrets and that you were an amazing missionary thanks for everything.

love Elder Judd