The Fate of Googly

 Nov 13, 2012





what happened to Googly








            Poor Googly

     Sorry we didn't have P-day yesterday, instead it was today and so I didn't get a chance to write until today. Instead yesterday we had an amazing Zone Conference where Stanley G. Elis of the Seventy spoke to us. He is amazing and I learned a lot from his talks. I want to be a better missionary. I have a long way to go still, especially in faith. I need to grow more in faith and be more earnest in prayer and ask for more and more and more. As it says in the scriptures, ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you. I need to do more asking and knocking. Sister Fine got a lot of revelation as what we should do for our investigators. It was fantastic. She is truly an incredible missionary.

     The end is hastening. New signs especially being the HUGE increase of missionaries, they are predicting that 35 thousand new missionaries will go out between the time of conference and the end of the year and when I went out there was a total of 56 thousand out in the world so in just a couple months the number will almost double and though it is unannounced China has been opened for missionary work. There are a lot of people here who were or know people who have been called to a mission in China. The Lord is hastening the work and also how the General Authorities asked all the names to be released, all those who have found names in Genealogy and have them reserved are to release them to temples, get the work done as quickly as possible. How incredible! The time we have is drawing to a close. The Lord has heard our prayers and is hastening the Second Coming  now I often pray that we will have the strength to do our part.

     We had an amazing week, we took three of our recent converts to the temple on Wednesday to do baptisms for the dead and each of them brought names of those they loved and had been close to while they were alive. One girl was even baptized for her mother and Jeremy for his father. He was shaking during the confirmations. The spirit was so powerful you would not believe it. I really love you and miss you. I hope you are doing well. Write me when you have some time. Our recent convert Pam has recently returned (Though she is leaving again soon) from New Mexico. She was confirmed on September 30th and we hadn't seen her since, and while she was in New Mexico she gave away over 30 more Book of Mormons and was holding cottage meetings with all the ranch families in her area. There are no missionaries out where she was, its too podunk, so Sister Fine joked that God just said, "well I cant get any missionaries out there right now so I guess I'll just send Pam to bring them the Gospel." Its awesome. She is amazing and she says she has to mark at least one copy of the Book of Mormon every day just to keep up with how many she gives out. Pretty much everyone she comes and talks to and they pour out all their troubles to her and she shows them something that she knows can help. As she says she can't be so selfish as to keep this to herself, it is too wonderful and she wants to share it with everyone she comes in contact with. She is an excellent example for all of us.

     It suddenly got cold on Friday  freezing cold. Sister Fine is super cold but the Lord has blessed me and I am still going around most of the time in short sleeves and not feeling overly cold. Also we got to help people clear a tree that was downed in a windstorm, it was an Eucalyptus tree and so we smelled really good and it made me think of the wind storms at home and it always feels good to work with my hands.

     I do tend to keep Sister Fine laughing so hard she can't speak sometimes. For example we were walking the other day and we saw a driveway with grass coming up from every crack and most definitely orange, so we joked that it was a plague. I said it was Para-Auto-Insured Nomenclature Typhoid, also known as PAINT, basically making up any words that would fit. She laughed so hard. Then later that day we talked about it again and she said it needed to have something after Typhoid, it didn't sound right, but I said that would mess up the letters and then, and only then, did she realize that I had set it up to be an acronym and laughed so hard she could hardly drive and certainly couldn't speak. It was awesome.