March 23, 2009

Familly,
First off i would like to say that I'm sad Marci that you did not send me a list of instructions for card for talking. I was really looking forward to playing it on this wonderful fine p-day, but who knows maybe you sent them in the mail because that would be better anyways.
Well hopefully yall don't think i'm just playin on my mission. Oh this is definitely hard work, in fact just today i said good bye to my companion who's going home on Wednesday. In fact i will meet my new companion on Tuesday, his name is Elder Delluchi. I'm way excited to meet him and get out teaching and all.
Well I've had a few sweet experiences this week and a couple from hard day's I'd experienced. This week, as yall who've been on mission can relate with, i had a couple of days where i didn't want to go out and work at all. Shocker i know who wouldn't want to go share this message to the world huh. Well I did go out and work anyways and really was blessed. We had a pretty tough week finding new investigators this week though. People most of the time seem very interested but that's usually where it ends. In fact we'll get done teaching them and ask them when we can come and teach them again and they will say uh just stop by some time when truly they have no desire to learn more.
Well because of this hard week I've been able to learn that doing are Heavenly fathers work is not always going to be fun. In fact some times it's going to be down right hard to get out of the house and start tracting. But when i went to church I saw one the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. Throughout sacrament meeting, which was super spiritual, the speakers spoke on tithing. They told of the blessings that truly come because of paying our tithing. They also hit on the subject a little in Elders quorum. Well to get to the point we have an investigator who's been to church twice and is super excited. We've only had the chance to teach him once without his kids. We only taught him the restoration and really introduced him to the Book of Mormon. After church he came up to me and asked me what the branch number was to put on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIS TITHING SLIP OH MY GOODNESS
He had engulfed the principle of tithing before we had even taught him about it. We are going to set a date with him on Wednesday and I'm super excited for him. I've never seen something so eternally joyful in my life.
I'm way excited for Michael Meadows, I know he will experience the blessings from paying his tithing and will receive an answer if he has not already. But also Mary lou came to church again and already has a baptismal date for the eleventh of April. She's in 3Nephi right now and has only been reading for three weeks, boy is the work here amazing or what?
This ward is absolutely on fire right now. I'm so stoked because the members are fellowshipping our investigators like crazy. They are also throwing out some many referrals for us to start teaching. I love the work and I'm glad I'm a part of it.
Love Elder Judd
ps hope you had fun in Mesquite and Arizona