You are wild that is all I have to say. It so wonderful to here from you each week things at home sound like the are going really well. It makes my heart so happy to here you are doing so well, even bearing your testimony in church that is so cool. I bet everyone was deeply moved by it.
I got you beef jerky on Christmas it was so good!!! I LOVE that you sent three, because that is when I was in my three some companionship. The jerky was so good!
My feelings now as a missionary serving here in Highgate, I love the work and as long as I am doing it I am dead happy! Dead coming from being tired and happy form seeing the work move. I know that we are not supposed to focus on numbers, but to give you and Idea of this last week our goal of lessons taught was 27, we taught 59. We are trying our best as much as we can and this we we will try to improve our quality of lessons. It has already started today during companionship study time. We practiced introducing The Book Of Mormon. This was something elder Kartchner had learned in leadership training.
the branch this week. I just copied this from my letter to President Hendricks
Another wonderful week here in Highgate. Each week we see more and more growth in the branch here. It is certainly not fast growth by any means, but it is growing well. We were blessed to hear 2 members speak this week. Bro. Grantston was one of those speakers. Every week seems as though we have a wonderful talk on missionary work directed at the members(without it being assigned to them). we saw this week, the fruits of some of these talks as to people we had never seen before, walked into church. The branch is making progress every week.
I thought you might want to know a little about that.
To everyone,
THE Support is STRONG, I feel your prayers for the missionaries it is wonderful. Thank you so much. I can't tell you enough how much each prayer means to another person here in Jamaica. It is hard to be a member in a place that is filled with Drugs..... I am not going to even start that list. Just know that your prayers are helping someone in need.
The weekly review, lets see what has happened this week. It started off good and Ended good. we have been working a lot with new investigators, Trying to find someone who is ready. We have found a few, and we are working with them very closely.
Church was pretty wild this week.It Is something else to start church here. To put it this way, for those of you that know me I have done a lot of crazy(border line dumb) adrenaline rushing stuff, but waiting to see if your investigators will show is much more nerve racking then any of it. We started our Church meeting With less then 10 people in the chapel. Then the congregation grew to 12 that took the sacrament and then all the sudden we had 36 people in there. Haha, must say that my spirit was weighing heavily at the start and then by the end I was, well there is no better way to put it then stoked!
A Word to the Members and future/off the mission me,
YOU ARE MISSIONARIES, It is sad to say that missionaries aren't the people who are to find people to teach we as members are missionaries and FINDERS. I have never taken this call seriously until I guess when I got this call(to be a full time missionary), but prophets have said that our personal missionary work effects greatly on our eternal life. WE as members of the church have the full and everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. So please, as the the old song goes"we are all enlisted tell the conflict is over happy are we." SHARE THE GOSPEL.
I love all of you so much. I am very happy that I know each of you. You have all helped me in some way that the other couldn't I am thank full for YOU.
(your secret admirer) Elder Conder "
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