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

April 26, 2010

Hey everyone,

Not a whole lot to talk about this week. But we did have the confirmation of Nate Jones and i was the one who got to confirm him it was really neat.

I love this work and know it is the work of the lord and he has his hand in all of it.

love Elder Judd

April 19, 2010

Dear family and friends,

I love Florida it's the best I really want to stay here forever and don't even want to go home at all sorry mom. Florida and the humidity have grown on me and i love love love it. The singles ward is bomb and the members are super sweet and we baptize like every week it really is a lot of fun. The best part is that heavenly father has given us so many blessings it's ridiculous. He's been such a help in our work and showing us miracle upon miracle in just this one week.

Good news Nate Jones just got baptized Sunday it was great and next week we will be baptizing Olivia Bell. Now Olivia Bell is probably one of the coolest self referrals ever. We were in president's interviews and she just walked in the church and wanted to learn more. So we gave her a church tour and immediately challenged her for baptism and she accepted for the twenty fifth of April. K now we told her that because she's making this decision the devil was going to try hard to keep her from attending church. We were right things came up left and right trying to hold her back but again and again the lord helped her as the both of us prayed for her and helped her overcome the concerns. The lord is amazing and a god of miracles and it definitely was a miracle that she made it to church. We are so excited to see her get baptized this Sunday it's going to be great.

That seriously is just one of the thousands of blessings we've recieved this week. Thank you for all your prayers i love you all.

Love Elder Judd

April 12, 2010

Dear family,

Oh my goodness i'm working now in the Young single adults ward holy cow. It's crazy and really tough, i have so many responsibilities that it really is impossible to have a normal day every day has a new excitement or something else stepping in our way. For example we got a phone call on Tuesday morning asking us to go and check on the sisters because one of the sisters being transferred took her phone with her and the others didn't call their district leader to let him know that they were in so we were asked to go check up on them. So we had to drive twenty miles just to get there to check on them and twenty minutes back it really is just crazy.

luckily the best part about this week was not that my companion had a constant migrane and i had to stay in going crazy inside but that even though he did we got our investigator to church and he'll be getting batized next weekend.

If you all can keep Nate Jones in your prayers we greatly appreciate it because he is the bomb we love him so much. We are pumped to see him get baptized. Tonight we are going with him to serve the homeless something he invited us to he really is the best. I love you all and thank you for your prayers thanks so much.

Love Elder Judd

April 5, 2010

Dear Beloved Family,

As you probably notice every time I write there's some type of theme in it. This week the theme is humility it really is my favorite nnnnnnnnnnoooooooooootttttttttt. I guess that's why i had it.

On Monday a member called me out completely shattered my pride to where i was very very angry with him holding it all within. But as i really began to think about it i recognized the promise that god gives that he will not give us commandments or challenges to big to face. So when i thought of that i turned to well what does the lord want me to learn from this. When i did i noticed that what he said was in answer to my prayers. I wanted to know what was holding me back and he showed me it was pride. I hope everyone will look at themselves and ask if you are letting pride hold you back. Word of advice let it go. The joy and love you experience is priceless god can then open you the windows of heaven and pour you out blessings. You can know his will just as Ronald Rasband.

Well I'm getting transferred to the Orlando area into the singles ward oh oh no. Well see how that goes.

Love Elder Judd

p.s. Thanks Kenneth Bennion for the email well said sorry i can't email you back