Happenings in Hartford

As of late, things have been pretty uneventful day-to-day. We have done lots of tracting and stop-by’s (surprise, surprise) and promoting the 21-Day Plan we started in church a couple weeks ago.

The 21-Day Plan is a promise from Elder Ballard that if we make a list of our friends or people we know that we’d like to share the gospel with and offer two prayers for these people a day for 21 consecutive days, someone on our list or someone we know but didn’t put on the list will accept an invitation to be taught by the missionaries. We presented it to the ward and most people are doing it. We are already seeing the blessings.

On Sunday the 18^th, some members in our ward (The Bailey’s) brought their neighbor Kim to church with them. She said she enjoyed the service and later in the week Sister Bailey called us and said that Kim wanted us to teach her. We taught her in the Bailey’s home on Friday night and it went really well. We taught her the Restoration and she had a lot of great questions. She committed to coming to church, reading from the Book of Mormon, and to getting baptized when she discovers the gospel is true. She wasn’t able to make it to church this week. She realized Saturday night that she had already made plans. However, she promised to be there next week and she already read the assignment we gave her. I can’t wait to teach her again!

That same Sunday, I taught Elder’s Quorum. By myself. It went so great! The lesson was on the Priesthood and I felt like, all things considered, it was a great lesson.

We have taught a few lessons this week to recent-converts and less-active members. It is a great way to practice teaching. One thing we have been doing that I like is finding conference talks that we think can help certain people and read them as part of our lesson. It is a great way to invite the spirit and to plan a lesson.

Last night there was an Inter-Faith Musical/Fireside at the church that we went to. It was really good! Quite a few of the numbers were performed by missionaries so President and Sister Pehrson were there so it was good to see them.

Well, that hits the highlights. I hope everyone is doing well! For those of you who have recently experienced a change in address, please let me know how I can get a hold of you now! For everyone else, don’t forget how much I would LOVE to hear from you! I love you all!