It has been a great week and we have been so blessed it is unreal. I loved hearing from you all and reading your email. sounds like you are doing good and getting lots done. WOW how the weather changed. it has been in the 50's here and i am freezing my butt off. it has been soooo cold and it feels great to be able and wear the suit coat again! :) that's crazy about all the wrecks and mishaps that have happened there on the roads and i am happy to hear that no one got hurt! Its always a worry when the first snow flies. i can imagine all these people down here if we got a good snow storm...it would be a absolute wreck! haha. it is really cloudy and overcast here this morning. we had a really awesome rain here this morning for about a hour. it felt so good to open up the doors and windows and feel and smell the cooler weather. Night and day difference between here and there. hope you all can deal with it! :)
Our week here has been incredible. i love my companionship! Elder Hales is with us from Roosevelt UT and is going to the Ukraine Russian speaking. it is so fun to have him with us and his greenie fire! his Russian is really impressive for only studying it for 12 weeks. he says prayers in Russian for all who meet him and he can carry on a fairly good conversation with people. we have been blessed to be led to some Russians speakers through members that have met him. it has been a ton of fun. great personality and really prepared missionary. Elder Hancey and I are doing awesome! he is great and we are tearing it up. he was companions in the MTC with elder Daniel Davis and it is fun to be companions with some one who is younger than me! haha. it is crazy how fast time goes by. he was only out about 6 months when we were together in Pueblo and he has changed and grown a lot sense then, that's what a mission does to you! :) he is really athletic and so is elder hales so we have a blast playing ball in the mornings. Elder Hancey played D1 soccer for Iowa Central Collage and is really good. We are doing great and having a blast! feels good, i have been so blessed with great companions...I payed my dues in bad companions early on in my mission, ever sense elder weaver i guess president has figured that i need to keep my sanity and happiness! haha jk, i have been extremely blessed!
Well we have seen some sweet miracles this week. we had been contacted by on of our members that one of their neighbors had contacted them and informed them that she had been seeing the Mormon.org commercials and has been on the site learning and researching about the church. She requested to learn more, wanted to be introduced to us, wanted a Book of Mormon and wanted to learn more about church services and "gospel laws and ordinances." we were in shock because no one outside of the church uses the word "ordinance" so we taught her on Friday night and it was an incredible experience. her name is Amanda and she is a single mother of 2. as we sat down to teach her we got to know her for a while at first then we asked her what her expectations were and her answer was "I don't have any 'expectations' other than i want to learn what i need to do to get baptized." Our answer was "aahhhh...Yes ma'am, we can do that" haha it was awesome. we taught her the restoration, word of wisdom, and about the sabbath day all in one lesson. she was so thirsty for the gospel. she would of loved to have had us stay and just teach through the night but we had another apt to get to. at the end of the lesson she started talking about baptism and how she has been thinking about it and wanted to do it close to Christmas because of the symbolism of Christs birth and her new birth. she will be getting baptized on Christmas Eve! She came to church yesterday and absolutely loved it. she is so prepared and has some issues to overcome but her desire and thirst will get her through any trial that could possibly arise. it was sweet and we are so excited to be able to work with her.
Next miracle. we just this week had a man move into our area named Richard. he is in his 50's and he has been out of prison for 5 years and just barely got off parole, this is the first time scene he was 18 that he hasn't been on some sort of probation/parole. he is a retired Hells Angel and has lots of cool stories! haha, he is so prepared and will be getting baptised this next coming weekend the 19th. blessing are being poured.
We have also set baptismal dates with a man named Daniel Hall and his wife Perla who is 60 years old and is looking for religion in his life. Already has read some of the Book of Mormon and is praying to know. he will be getting baptized on the 26th of November! :)
So ya it has been a crazy transfer week. we had ZLC on Friday, we have 2 new district leaders, 3 new missionaries in the zone and every companionship has had a transfer. so there is a lot happening. we also have meetings for 2 whole days in Scottsdale this week on Tues-wed and then we will be training our new district leaders on Thursday morning and because they haven't ever done this before we have to plan and prepare a district meeting. CRAZY, maybe we ill be able to keep our heads on straight. we are abnormally busy and elder hancey is wondering if this is normal! haha, it is quite the adjustment. we are doing great though and it is so good to hear that you all are doing good as well!
Hope that you all keep busy and safe and happy. your always in my prayers and i hope the very best for you in all that you do! Love you so much.
Love Elder Lerwill
p.s. will send companionship pics next week! :)
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