World Wide Missionary Training

Dear Family and Friends

Another week gone here in Sulphur, Louisiana! It was a good one! Me
and Elder Fatas first week together was awesome!

Tuesday we went and I introduced him to some members and they all
loved him, which is a good thing! Then we went to Caples and went to
play basketball with a lot of investigators! It was really fun! It is
a great way to find people to teach. Tuesday was a good day!

Wednesday we woke up and drove to the worldwide missionary broadcast!
It was a wonderful broadcast and we received great council on how to
become better missionaries! One of the biggest things I took from it
was Elder Bednar when he said, "You can bring it UNTO the heart of
your investigators, but ONLY the Holy Ghost can bring it INTO the
heart". That really stood out to me. I am grateful for the Holy Ghost
and how we need to stay worthy in order to have it and use it with our
investigators. After the broadcast we went and a taught a member
lesson to a recent convert. It was a really spiritual lesson. We
taught the plan of salvation. Then we went to Brother Kandiks and ate
dinner with him. It was a great day.

Thursday we went and visited an investigator named Charles! We found
him a couple days before and he said to come back and it was one of
the few times where you try back and they are actually interested
haha. We taught him the restoration and asked him to read the Book of
Mormon and pray about it. He said he would and when we went back on
Saturday he had done it! I was so happy! We are teaching him on
Wednesday so hopefully that goes well. He is starting to open up more
and more. Then we went and stayed the night at the Lake Charles elders
apartment because we had to wake up early to drive to zone meeting. I
have to drive everywhere because my comp doesn't have a license so
that sucks.

Friday we went to zone meeting which was awesome and we learned some
great things. Then we came back to lake Charles to drop the elders
back off. Me and Elder Fata felt like we needed to go to stay in lake
Charles for some reason, we hopped on our bikes and starting riding
down a random road in lake Charles. We were going to knock some doors
for the sisters and we saw this woman sitting on a bucket but thought
nothing of it, we started knocking and both kept getting the
impression to go talk to her. We did and she started yelling at us and
saying how she is homeless and is going to jail because it's better
then being homeless and she doesn't know where God was in this. She
blasted us for about 10 minutes and most missionaries would have left
but we stayed and just listened. After she was done yelling we started
to speak to her and I told her that God sent us to her and she started
crying. She said being homeless is terrible and she hates how she lost
everything and life sucks for her. We opened her up and she confessed
to us what she was going through, then we asked if we could pray with
her, elder Fata said a wonderful prayer and she was very comforted and
the spirit was so strong. We changed her life and she came to church
on Sunday!! It was not a coincidence that we picked that street and
was led to there on Friday. She is awesome and we love her already.
The Lord is always preparing people to receive you and for you to have
those experiences. It was an amazing experience. Then we went home and
that was Friday.

Saturday we woke up did studies then drove up to west lake and played
football on the field with about 20 people. It was really fun and we
met some really cool people! Then we went and knocked doors and for
dinner we went to the Sweenys and had pizza. We had a awesome
conversation with him about the gospel. They are an awesome family.

Sunday Bethany came to church! She is the one in the story. It was
awesome to see her there! She really felt the spirit. It was awesome.
After church we went with bro Caple and most of the ward to a family
in the ward, the Crippens. It was a lot of fun and there was some
really good food! Then we went to a Pentecostal church with one of our
investigators! It was interesting. Their music was cool but it was
more like a party form of worship. The preacher got really into it. I
thought it was interesting. This week was crazy!

Thanks for all the support and the emails! I love you all and hope you
have an amazing week!
Elder Sirrine