Surprise Letter!

We got a surprise letter today! 

He had a really great experience Friday while teaching his "investigators" (his teachers act as investigators to help prepare them for some situations that might occur when teaching in the field) and couldn't wait to write about it.   

It's amazing the growth he has shown in such a short time...

7-13-12

Hey! Sorry, this letter is going to be super fast because technically I'm not supposed to be writing this but I couldn't wait until next Thursday to tell you. 

But anyway, today Elder Tukia and I taught two lessons (we have two investigators and it just happened that we taught both of them today).  Our first one has been kind of annoying because he hasn't been keeping any of his commitments for reading the Book of Mormon and today wasn't any different so we just decided that during our lesson we were going to read the Book of Mormon with him and explain/ask questions about what we were reading.  So we decided to read 2nd Nephi 32 because that's all about the purpose of prayer and having faith and that's what we planned on teaching him today.  So he was up for the idea so we took turns reading and we stopped every once in a while to talk about what we read and answer any questions he had.  He was super interested and excited about it!!!!!! The Lord was definitely helping us with the language because we were both using words and phrases that we've never even studied before!!!!! It was so cool!!!!! The gift of tongues is definitely a real thing!!!! After we finished reading the chapter, the spirit was so strong!!!!!!!  We taught him how to pray and then asked him if he would offer the prayer and he agreed to do it!!! (which was something he never wanted to do!!!!) Then after, our teacher Hermano Mennis took us out during this thing that our teachers do called Coaching Missionary Study where they help us with our lessons or give us advice on how to improve our studying and stuff like that.  Anyway, he brought us out and he's our investigator (he just pretends to be someone from his mission) and he told us that our lesson was super good and he was really impressed and it was just a good lesson!!! It was so sweet!!!!

Then the next lesson we taught also went good.  Not as good as this morning but it was still really good!!!  Our other investigator is difficult because he is kind of anti-mormon but not super anti.  We taught him the Restoration and when I recited the first vision, the spirit came and I could tell that his heart was softening and at the end of the lesson he took a Book of Mormon (which we didn't think he was going to) and he committed to read and pray about it.  Awe man, it was super good!!!!

This whole day was just awesome!!! I've never felt so led by the spirit in my whole life!!!!!  Awe man, seriously, it was such a great day!!!!! Anyway, I just had to tell you because I was so pumped!!!!! Awe man being a missionary is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

So, I'll talk to you soon!!!!!

I love you!!!!!!

Scott