They won and then we won

Well... this week was pretty good. We spent quite a bit of time with some boys that were playing in a basketball tournament here in our area. Some of the boys from the team were members from our ward. The team won the championship and then we asked them if we could teach them after. We got a few of them that we the most interested and taught them. So, that was the biggest win of the night. 

We also got back to a lot of the Sisters old investigators out here. We basically spent our whole week trying to find them. We ended up with 11 new investigators. So, we will see how all that goes in the coming weeks.

One of my favorite lessons this week was with an old Nani named Cita. She was one of the sisters investigators a few months ago. But, she told us the first time that we visited her that she had basically punted the sisters. So, we taught her anyway and she let us come back. We went back this week and she didn't seem all that excited to see us. But, we had an awesome lesson about how we were really not there to convince her that what we had to way was right. But, that our purpose as missionaries was to give others the way so that they can know for themselves if the church is true. At the end of the lesson, she asked us when we would be able to come back to teach her more. She is super busy, but hopefully we find a way to make it work.

We also taught a lesson with one of our progressing investigators. We just taught about Faith and Repentance. That is kind of the new focus in our mission now. We are supposed to really focus on faith and repentance before we even talk about baptism. It has been super effective in finding people who are truly ready to change and become converted to this perfect gospel. 

We didn't have any investigators at church this week, so that was kind of a downer, but that isn't something we can control. So, we will work more and see what happens next week.

I know that this gospel is true and that we are all a part of the most important work on the earth now. Keep it up and find those who God will put in your path. 

-Elder Thomas

Here is a video life between a little calf and a mama cow. We had to take this path to get to an investigator and Elder Sanford ended up with a pretty muddy shoe after running away through the mud