Small miracles

This one is for everyone!

How is everyone doing? I hope that everyone has been enjoying life, because that is how it should be. I have been enjoying the mission a lot. We have been seeing many small miracles here in Saratoga Springs. The past 3 transfers we have worked really hard contacting referrals, former investigators and knocking doors and I probably know or know of about every single hispanic person in Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs. So just before this transfer I was basically out of ideas and just prayed to ask God to prepare the people who are already here and to bring new people ready for the Gospel to the are. Since then one non-member family that we weren't even teaching has come to church twice, an eternal investigator that we have who has been meeting with missionaries for years and goes to church every Sunday stopped drinking coffee because her family's home teachers gave her a blessing to be able to quit and she got sick and didn't want to drink coffee for like a week because she was sick, and then just didn't start drinking again. So she should be baptized this week or next! And two kids, a girl who is 17 and a boy who is almost 11 started coming to church because their mom is inactive but their aunt is an active member of the ward. The 11-year-old already wants to serve a mission and to be baptized, he just told us that he wants to be baptized and then be good after and not just be baptized to be baptized. God has really been answering that prayer! It was just a different feeling that I had when I was saying that prayer. I had faith and knew that it was the will of God that what I was asking would happen, and it has and will continue to happen. It was really a situation where I had done almost everything I could do and all I could do was ask the Lord to help us. He really is helping.

Besides all of the work that is going on we had a little fun trying to milk the goats - our landlord told us we could whenever we wanted to. We got the district together, but even with six of us we couldn't get much, and then the goat stepped in the teeny bit that we got, so we couldn't try any of it! It was pretty fun though.

I hope everyone is doing great at work, at school, at home, on vacacion, or wherever you are! Heavenly Father loves you.

Love,

Elder Getts

Dear family and friends,

 

I am pretty sure that it has snowed more here in March than it did in December, January and February combined - and it still hasn't snowed all that much. Saratoga Springs is getting better as we work hard to find and help our current investigators keep commitments. This Saturday we played basketball for exercise in the morning and I suffered a minor ankle sprain. My ankle is a bit swollen and has some bruises, but I can walk on it just fine. I just won't be playing any basketball for a couple weeks. It also helped to be able to remember how Mr. Bowman wrapped ankles in high school, so I could wrap it with athletic tape.

This Sunday was a good day. We had a Stake Conference in Saratoga Springs, and then afterwards we stopped by some new investigators - Adriana, Luiz, and Sergio Montoya - and were able to put a date for their baptism on April 14th. It will be awesome, because they are so humble and sincere and really feel the Spirit. Then we talked with Ivan in his new apartment and had a great dinner with our Ward mission leader, Hno Arteaga, the bishop and the Gutierrez family, who had their baby boy in the hospital for over a month because he had to have surgery on his skull. He finally got out of the hospital and is doing pretty well. Hopefully we will be able to start teaching them slowly and that they will be able to feel God's love because the whole time the boy was in the hospital we tried to stop by and just check up on how they were doing, as well as other members.

Elder Whitsitt also got his call about his flight plans - he will be headed out on April 2nd, the day after General Conference. So that means that I will be staying here for another transfer, which I am excited about, so that I can leave the area doing really good for the missionaries who will be after me.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is truly wonderful in helping us conquer challenges and find happiness and peace in our lives. I know by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus Christ lives. He loves us and suffered and died for us. The Book of Mormon is His divine word and contains the fulness of His Gospel. I challenge every one of you to bear your testimony through how you live.

 

Love,

Elder Getts