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I love toddys
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DONT SMOKE! I love Cynthia
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The hair clippers broke mid shave.........
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Can I just say that General Conference is THE BEST!!!!!!!!:D
We've
decided that down here, Its like the World cup (Fifa) for all
missionaries. We get super stoked and end up buying a ton of snacks (we
ended up getting the best cookies that exist here, Toddys. they're like
chips ahoi on steroids!), setting up everything super nice, and loving
every moment of it.
On top of all that, Darwin (the Less
active that we've been working with for a little over a month now) Came
to every session. This was the first time he had entered the chapel in 7
years, but even came to the priesthood session (9 Pm - 11 pm
we were dead when we got back to the house). Not only that, but he's
finally decided to give up smoking this week. We've been working him
down from 60 when we found him, to 4-5 now, and as of yesterday, after attending the conference and leaving super inspired, he decided that he's
going to do it! We're hoping that he can be ready to come clean to
church this week.
Along with Darwin, Sabrina is flying. Ive
never seen anyone progress as fast as her. Honestly, we found her a week
and a half ago through a reference, reminded her of how she had felt at
baptism, and invited her to worship with us on sunday.
She came; then on Monday we gave her the challenge to drop smoking,
coffee, and tea for three days. After finding great success with this,
she has kept going strong. Last week in total she only smoked half a cigarette, realized what she was doing, then threw it out. She is reading
and praying every day, and has been able to find great strength in this
to help her over come her addiction. Really her situation reminded me
of Ether 12:27.
She has come unto Christ and as such, knows her weakness. In finding
this, she has humbled herself greatly, to the point of pleading with
the lord for help (every time we pass by and ask if she's been praying,
she laughs and replies in the affirmative). This in and of itself shows
great faith through her actions. And man can I say that the lord is
strengthening her. We got a text from our bishop this morning saying
thank you, and that the interview that he had with her last night after
the conference was greatly successful and did a lot of good. we replied
by thanking him. The man is an inspiration to watch and I pray I can
become more like him.
The De Leon Family also came to a
session, as well as most of our investigators. Cynthia was able to
convince her less active husband to come, and is really helping him
reactivate. Haha, She's the best! This week, we saw that she bought a no
smoking sign and put it in the car. On top of that, she breaks his cigarettes, and reads scriptures everyday.
Well, thats all I have to say for this week,
Lots of love,
Elder Eliason
