Since beginning my mission I've often wanted to go back to high
school and do a better job of sharing the gospel with my friends. I was
always afraid of how they might react and of being to overbearing. Often
as members we think that as soon as we get the missionaries involved
then it's just to much for our friends to handle at that time. Almost
all of the work that we do as missionaries is directly effected by the
willingness of the members to reach out to their friends and family. The
impact that a simple invitation to a church meeting or activity can
make is amazing. As I look back to high school I now realize how many
people were ready for the gospel if I had just taken the time to invite
them. I would encourage all of you at home to accept the challenge of
inviting at least one friend or family to come to the next church social
and introduce them to the missionaries, and YES I expect to hear how it
goes from each one of you at home!!! I'M SERIOUS! Harris go and invite
Mrs. Peters to come to the next ward Christmas party. Tell her that
Keller a.k.a (Elder Reeves) wants her to come and that she needs to
write me sometime. Tell Noah to keep up the amazing missionary work that
I've already seen him do. When he turned 8 years old he invited our
next door neighbors to come to his baptism. I have already seen 3 people
on my mission come to a baptism to support a friend and leave the
baptism with the desire to be baptized themselves. Seeing how much help
the members in my area offer us as missionaries I can promise you that
your missionaries will love you ever so much if you just give them
somewhere to start!
As for how this past week went for my companion and I
well.... it's been great! We finished again with record numbers and
then the best part is that we picked up 6 new investigators!!!! One is a
family of 5 who we meet with and taught most of the first lesson. The
family loved how it went and said they would be interested in hearing
more. We left them with a reading assignment and were pleased to hear
that they planned to read it together as a family. The father of the
family is currently going through a divorce and we are teaching him, his
son, and his 3 daughters. I have high hopes for the family and can't
wait to hear how their reading went. The next investigator that we
picked up is a young man around 16-17 who lives in the building right
next to us. He lives above a member family who are good friends to him
and finally invited him out to church. He really enjoyed sacrament
meeting and informed me that he would love for us to come over and to
teach him more. Like I said it been an amazing week.
Yesterday my companion and I went on splits with our
roommates and I was able to teach a second lesson to an investigator
that my companion and I came across the other week and turned over to
our roommates who are over the singles ward. That night he informed us
that he prayed and received his answer to be baptized. It will be the
first baptism for my roommates and I'm so happy to have been a part of
it.
Now for perhaps the biggest news of the week.
Transfers are today and we received the call Wednesday night that my
companion will be leaving the area. It's going to be hard taking charge
over the area since I barely know the map of our area and couldn't tell
you the gate codes for any of the neighborhoods (or for our apartment
complex), but I'm very excited for my new companion. From what I've
heard he's a hard worker and I have a list of goals I know we can
complete if he's up for the challenge. I'll get to meet him in person at
5 today and then we'll get right to the point and get to work. We have a
lot of work to do and relationships to repair but I know that with the
right mind set we can do it. I love you all and hope to hear soon how my
challenge goes! Oh and my new companion is Elder Conqueret. Best
wishes,
Elder Reeves
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