God Is Truly Blessing Us

Hello Everybody,

This week was a very good and busy one! We have been teaching a pretty large amount of people and have had a lot of teaching appointments with investigators. Elder Edman is doing very well!! He is already a great teacher and is a diligent worker. It makes being a trainer really easy. We work really well together and I feel that a lot of good things will continue to happen with our companionship. So we have seen Dana and Leon since her surgery, we had a lesson with them last week and they came to church as well!!!  Dana is still on track for the 29th. Leon is also making a lot of progress but may take more time. He has gone a little over 3 weeks without smoking now!!! It is amazing to see them grow. Overall we had 5 investigators at church this week!!! It has been an amazing couple of months as far as church attendance goes, except for last week, we have had at least 3 or 4 investigators at sacrament meeting!! God is truly blessing us.

Gordon is making some really good steps as well.  He came to church again and said that he loved it! He has become pretty good friends with a few of the priests in our ward and says he see's them at school all of the time now! The last lesson we had with him was quite an amazing experience. We asked him how he feels when he reads the Book of Mormon and if he notices a difference in the days he does and the days he doesn't read. He said he noticed a big difference! He said that since he has been reading the Book of Mormon regularly, he has become a better person. He said he feels happier, and more confident. We then talked about how that was the spirit that is telling him of the truthfullness of our message. It was amazing to see him start to understand how the spirit works. He said that he thinks that might be his answer. It is amazing to see how far he has come, we have a lesson scheduled with him tomorrow so hopefully we will be able to set a new baptisimal date with him!

Some other news that will be happening this week.. We are going to be getting another companion here in Wilmington. He will be staying with us for 3 weeks until the end of the transfer. Im not sure how exactly it is going to work, but we will probbably be teaching both the people here and the people in Hampstead (where he is serving). It should be an interesting and exciting time to be able to teach some new people because we will be splitting time between areas.  We will be teaching mostly those investigators who are progressing, which will be exciting.

Its good to hear that everything back home is going well! Im a little jealous of the time yall get to spend with each other. That is also exciting that you got to go to the temple open house. If I could do it over again, I would go back and try to attend the temple more often because I really miss it. Luckilly we are going to the Raleigh temple this Friday!! I am so excited. We get to go every 6 months while here on a mission.

I hope you know that I love you all. Thank you for your support and your letters. I enjoy hearing from you. I pray that you will continue to have a blessed life and that you will be continually happy.

 Love Elder Brayden Mortensen