Monday, November 14, 2016

11/16/2016

Well it has been a solid week!!!!! Of course first things first, L got baptized this Sunday and it was such a lovely experience. The whole family came together and was super super supportive. He is such a great kid and has such a solid future. He is going to be a killer missionary one day. The ward was super super supportive and it was a very spiritual experience. We were really able to see how the gospel brings families together no matter what. It felt so good to see the happiness and joy that L had as he was baptized and confirmed. It really has been so lovely teaching the family every week all together and really just learning together. The walker family is the best!

The cold weather has come and I think it's here for good now haha so that's nice. We are enjoying it though. It feels good haha. I'm happy not to be on bikes in Bedford though to be honest. That was a different story, but also tons of great memories haha. We have spent tons of time up at the University of Northampton teaching lessons and contacting. It's such a solid place. It's basically China up there haha. We have been able to meet some really cool Chinese friends and we are stoked to continue to teach them! J is looking super good for his baptism and so is K!!! K had his announced in church today so it will be happening next week on the 19th. K has been facing quite a bit of opposition but has really shown his faith by trusting that everything will work out. This is what he said," Everything happens for a reason I believe in it strongly and the church is  true and I will continue to follow my heart" he is just brilliant. We were able to watch the Joseph smith movie with him and it was so powerful. My testimony is strengthened so much every time we watch it. F is doing well. We think she is just taking more time, she has struggled a bit with more opposition but she can overcome it. We are just really praying and fasting for her. 



After that baptism there is a stake activity and it's like a musical night, and of course our ward out of the entire stake was assigned to do "High School Musical" hahahaha so that's going to be interesting. Not many people know I went to East High school so it should be okay hahaha. We were able to have some changes to the zone so we have a few new missionaries recently. We have 2 Elder Chongs in the zone now and they are the coolest haha, ones from Taiwan and the other is from Singapore. So we 
have tons of fun with them and they love missionary work so we are pumped!!!!! But over all it's been a solid week. We have found tons of cool Chinese students but also lost a ton because they either tell their friends about it or their family and they are then told that Christianity is crazy and that Chinese people only believe in Buda. So that has been sad for us as well because the friends we have found are really amazing. 

The Lords Hand 
I saw the Lords Hand this week in a cool experience we had on Saturday. So we were flipping through the area book converting some of it into our digital area Book. And we were scanning through I felt prompted to turn back to a teaching record that was very sloppy. As we did so we called the number and a little boy answered and said we could talk to his mother. The mothers name was N and she seemed a bit confused but was very kind. I asked where she was from and she said Peru! Ah haha it was so cool. So we chatted for quite a while and she expressed how she didn't really know what she believed anymore. But we are seeing her and her family on Thursday with some Colombian members in our ward! So we are sooo happy and excited. I really felt that the Lord was mindful of us and that he promoted us to call N, as she answered, we felt so good knowing that we were obedient to the promoting we had received. 

Well I love you family! Looks like the Utes are on a hot roll!!! Let's keep me going. Would be sweet if we could win the PAC 12 championship. Also sounds like East is going to state so that sick! I love you guys. You are all the best of the best, 
Love you!!!!!! 
Jacob 


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