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Hi there,
I am trying not to make it a habit of emailing every other week but that seems to be how it is happening. Last Monday I got really sick and so I did not feel up to sending out an email. Most of the things I will be talking about are from last week because this week we all played the sick game as I passed around my cold to everyone in our district. So back in it time when I wasn't sick, I got to meet an investigator of the church named J... J.. is from the Philippines and has a super strong testimony that the gospel is true. He has a slight problem with drinking coffee, but he knows that he has to give it up because it is what the Lord wants him to do. While we were teaching him, he told us of the scripture that his testimony was built upon. He said that the Elders assigned him to read Helaman 3. Now for those of you who have not read Helaman 3 in a while I will let you know it is one of those chapters that is very long, drawn out, and boring. He said that it was boring him to the point that the spirit testified to him this, "Who would make this boring stuff up?" And he said that in that very moment he knew that Joseph Smith did not make up the Book of Mormon, but that it was truly written by inspiration from God. Unfortunately I will not have any more stories about J... unless we go to see him get baptized. I say this because it just so happens that J... is moving to the Manchester Ward. Luckily, since that was the last ward I served in, I told him some of the people that he should go introduce himself to so that he does not feel out of place in his new ward.
Although we lost J... to the Manchester Ward, it just so happens that we actually got someone from that ward as well. One of the less-active members that we were working on bringing back moved out of the ward while I was there before we could help them. Well I guess the Lord had something that he wanted me to tell them because soon after they moved I got transferred into their ward here in Ashford. Their name is the K.. family and we re-found them and started working with them. It just so happens that the Lord already started working on their hearts before we got to them because they told us about how they have goals of going to the temple together. We asked them if they were reading their scriptures and they told us that they are currently racing to see who in the family can finish the Book of Mormon first. They asked us if we could help them with family home evening because they did not think they were doing it right. I was happy to let them know that I just so happen to know how to do family home evening after helping the G.. family figure it out. Hopefully it will be a lot easier now that we will be doing it in English instead of Spanish.
The last cool thing I wanted to talk about is we got a break from walking and riding our bikes all over the place. This is because we got 7 media referrals. This is a miracle on its own because 7 media referrals are more than I have gotten in my whole mission. Media referrals are so special because the miles you use to find them do not count as part of your miles. So we have been using them to get out into some of the farther ends of our mission and then spend the day out there.
Well I happen to be running out of time again. But I will have a lot of people to talk about next time that we are working with.
Elder Erb
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