This work is true!

This week was awesome! We had so much fun! We did a lot of teaching this week. We have some awesome investigators. Jeremy is doing great and he is getting baptized this weekend, we are super excited for him. He is so awesome, he is loving the Book of Mormon and he loves church as well. We have been giving him reading assignments and he loves doing the readings, he has been prepared by the Lord and it is such a blessing to see. It has been super hot this week, very very humid. I love it though and I would say I am used to it. Oh yeah... on Monday we have a conference call with the whole mission and President Porter announced that we are all going to a Cincinnati Reds game on September 8th! I am super pumped, its going to be the funnest thing ever, I cannot wait! Elder Bloxham is a huge baseball guy so we were jumping up and down when he announced that. So we are excited. So many amazing things are happening here in Kentucky. We are finding so many people that have been prepared by the Lord, its truly amazing. We also had the chance to help a member of our ward do the ice bucket challenge, it was so funny. The Lord is truly blessing us here in the Promised Land! I am doing great and this work is true. Christ is at the head of it and I know that to be true.

Instrument in his hands!

This week was solid! Its started off super fun on Monday playing ultimate Frisbee in the rain and having a cook out with the zone, it was a blast. Then the week just flew by! Jeremy is back in town and we have been teaching him. He is so awesome, I love the guy! He is 20 years old and he is from Jamaica! We have had many spiritual experiences with him and he came to church on Sunday! We were actually in a lesson with him the other day and his friend called and he told his buddy to come down and meet us, he told him that we are the dudes to ask about the Book of Mormon and how it can change his life. It was awesome, we were able to meet his friend and teach him! We also had another awesome lesson with Zach and Emily! We taught them a Book of Mormon lesson that our mission president wants us to teach. It was a very powerful lesson, we had it at a member's home and the spirit was very strong! The Holy spirit is the only way that you find success in this work and I am realizing that more and more everyday. SO many miracles are happening everyday here in the Promised Land. We fasted yesterday and we saw miracles as we were able to reach our goals. The Lord really is at the head of this work and we are just an instrument in his hand and it is such a blessing. Fasting and prayer does work. I am super excited for another week here in Kentucky!

The Lord's Vineyard!

This week was another amazing week here in the Promised Land of Northern Kentucky. We found some awesome new investigators and we are still teaching Zach and Emily. They are doing awesome, they came to church and they enjoyed it. They are the coolest young family ever. They are so humble and they believe that the message we share will bless their family. AND THEY ARE RIGHT. The message of the Restoration of the Gospel blesses families! I have seen it bless so many people's lives and I have seen it bless their families as well. I have seen this gospel bless my family, I have seen the fruit in my life and I really do know that this in Christ's church. We received a challenge from President Porter to read the Book of Mormon with our companion every night and highlight specific things. Elder Bloxham and I have been doing it and it has brought us closer together as a companionship and it has helped our work! The Book of Mormon is true, it is the word of God. I am so happy and excited I get to share that message with everyone! I have been so blessed to serve in this part of the Lord's vineyard! My testimony has grown so much and I am loving life. Today we are having a zone fun day and we are having a barbecue and playing some basketball, ultimate Frisbee, and having a great time. I am so happy to be here serving the Lord! Thanks for all the prayers and support!

"There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today.  There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent.  The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability."   Harold B. Lee

The spirit is apparent!

This week was full of miracles. But first of all... I am staying another 6 weeks here in the Promised Land of Northern Kentucky!!!! I am so exited. Elder Bloxham is staying too! WE are so pumped, we get along very well and we are working hard and this month is looking good! So last week we stayed super busy! We found a sweet couple that is excited to learn more... Emily and Zach and they have a one year old that is a cutie. We are also teaching Erin, she is a recent converts friend and she actually used to live by some missionaries in college and she said the missionaries were awesome and she came to church yesterday and loved it! We were so blessed this week, we saw the Lord's hand in his work everyday. We had a very powerful lesson with Zach and Emily and Zach said the prayer at the end of the lesson and the spirit just filled the room, it was a powerful experience. The sp

irit is so apparent in this work. Without it... no conversion would happen. I know that to be true and I have a strong testimony of the spirit. When we listen to and follow the promptings of the holy spirit we will be led to those that the Lord has prepared.

We had a ward picnic on Saturday and we had a super awesome time, one of our investigators came and we played French Crickett...  I am doing awesome and I am so happy. I get to spend another 6 weeks here in the Promise Land, it is the greatest. Thanks for all your prayers and all your support.

The work is real!

This week was awesome, as always, we saw the Lord's hand in our lives as we were doing His work. We have been doing a lot of finding and we have talked to the funniest people, the people in Kentucky are awesome and I love them to death. We had an amazing opportunity last week to exercise our priesthood and give a couple blessings. I have such a strong testimony of priesthood power and if we have the faith and we trust in the Lord then he will put thoughts into our heads and words into our mouths. This work is real and I am seeing that more and more everyday. It was awesome to see the Sherrod family at church again this week, they love church and they are always so happy to attend. We found a part member family the other day, the husband is a member and the wife is not. They are the coolest and we are now working with her and her daughters! The other day we helped this lady clean out her garage and found some funny stuff, check out the sweet picture! Exciting stuff is happening here in the Promised Land! I love serving the Lord, it has truly been a blessing. I am so blessed that I get to feel the spirit everyday out here on the mission. Thanks for all the prayers and all the support, you are amazing!

True conversion!

This week was full of miracles. It was amazing! Ora, Shaun, and Jemisha got baptized on Saturday! It was the most amazing experience ever! It was such a blessing and a privilege to teach them. We share so many spiritual experiences with them that we have become very close.  We found them on Memorial Day a while back... lost contact with them for a couple weeks, found them again. Started teaching and the miracles just continued to happen. Ora felt the spirit and she has not missed a day of church since her first time. The kids love church too and it was amazing to see them enter into the waters of baptism. It was only through the spirit that this conversion happened. She kept her commitments and  had spiritual experiences by herself and has felt the spirit so strong she knew it was true when she asked God. The spirit is the only way that true conversion happens. It truly was a miracle that that family was baptized. The Lord prepared them for us and I was blessed enough to be a tool in his hand. She told us that she has seen changes in her life and she is excited to see more. She is very shy and does not have a lot, but she knows that this gospel can change her life, it has already started. It has been amazing to see her change! She couldn't stop smiling when she entered the font, she was so happy. There was just a different light in their eyes after they were baptized and it was so amazing to see. I am doing awesome and I love serving the Lord. I am excited for another week full of miracles here in the Promised Land of Kentucky! We are staying busy and we are working hard!

"Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are."

Singing!

This week was awesome! We worked hard and labored in the Lord's vineyard. We saw many miracles and we were very blessed. Orra and her kids are on date to get baptized this week! We are super excited for them! They are doing so well. Orra is reading the Book of Mormon and she loves church! We are also working with a guy named Jeremy... he is a Jamaican rapper. He is way cool, I love the guy. We have a lot going on this week and I am super excited for everything that is happening. The Lord has really blessed us. I am loving life and I am super happy. It has been raining a bit lately but the sun is coming soon. My companion and I have a new found obsession. We sing! We sing all the time, I love it and I am getting the hang of it believe it or not haha but we are having a jolly good time. But seriously.... singing invites the spirit so well why wouldn't we sing!? Y'all should try it out!