Letter from Elder Z. - Feb. 13th

Hey!

So this morning this awesome kid who is going on his mission to Nevada in April from our ward. Came over in the morning to work out with us P-90X style. I wanted to vomit. I don't think I've worked out that hard in a long time. But, I feel really good right now. It wore off after a little while. Working out makes your body feel good imagine that. It helps you physically emotionally and everything else. I gotta get back into working out. It might stink in the process, but it is awesome the rest of the day. Plus you get to look ripped and that always makes us happy right?

So A lot of crap has happened this week. One of our investigators says she felt like she got an answer to her prayers and that answer is to not embrace the restored gospel. This made me pretty sad. I love all the people I teach. However, we are going to meet up again. We thought a lot about it and it all comes down the the Book of Mormon. They tell us that in Preach my Gospel over and over again. If you want to dismiss this church and the claims that Joseph Smith and other men who were called of God made you have to go through the Book of Mormon. It is called the keystone of our religion for a reason. It contains everything within it. Our faith in Christ, the Priesthood everything. So until she has a answer that the Book of Mormon is true or it isn't well guess what our job isn't over. Elder Holland gave a talk in 2009 November General Conference that is so inspiring. I love Elder Holland! He speaks with such passion. I don't know how anybody after hearing his testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon could deny it. It is true there is no doubt in my mind. It is the word of God and that is evidence of the truth that Joseph Smith was called as a prophet of God. I have been reading in D&C 20 this morning and man it is so cool. Also 2 Nephi 28 and 29 all on this latter day work.

Just like Elder Holland I want it to be perfectly clear when I sit before the Judgment seat that I proclaim that the Book of Mormon true. There is no doubt in my mind and the abundance of the Spirit I feel while reading and pondering it's pages is overwhelming. No evil man could write such a book for it invites us to come unto the Master Jesus Christ. "If you believe in Christ you will believe in these things and if you do not believe in these things believe in Christ." It is that simple

I love you all have a fantastic week happy valentines day!

Letter from Elder Z. - February 6th

Hey family!

Today has been another wonderful week. Except for the fact that I'm wearing no show socks with my suit pants everything is hunky dorey (Spelling?). Anyway I had a few pretty cool experiences I would like to share! Elder Flaherty and I tracted a lot more this week than usual. Our investigator pool is slowing up so we decided we gotta find more. Like a lot more! We shooting for like a billion this week, but I forgot how much I love knocking on peoples doors. It is oh so much fun and really funny at the same time. We have the best adventures when we are out and about. It was pouring the other day and we were having a good time at it. If we gonna be out why not have a good time? So ya we met some really nice folks hopefully we can get in contact with a few of them and teach them about the restored Gospel! A few of the recent converts that I know received the aaronic priesthood over the last few weeks and it is really neat to see them take on this responsibility. One guy got like 3 books on the aaronic priesthood and its roles and was telling us how we gotta be out at food shelters and doing so much more! God has given us a big responsibility and we have to honor it! It is really neat! Well much love!

WAHOO PICTURES!

Wow, these were such a pain to upload. Technology gets me sometimes, but they're finally up! Cameron sent these at the end of January, so I've had them for about a week now. Enjoy!