The last letter!!! July 16, 2012

SHUNNA!!! this is the last week and we are going harder than ever, i told elder seok 3 weeks ago i said listen we wont have enough time to get someone in the waters of baptism so we are going to build these people faith so they will have solid testimonies and for the miracle elder seok we are going to find 30 new investigators this is something that has never been done he looked at me and set lets do it and right now we have found 25 new investigators and we have heaps more potentials to follow up on things are sweet the spirit of the missionary work something that is different something that i will miss i gave it my best at times i wish i could have gave more but i know, i know! that heavenly father has excepted the service that i have given but now he expects me serve him the rest of my life tell everyone thank you for the support that they have given me thank you for all the encouragement and lets do this one last week. "he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it"

July 1, 2012

Well my broseph you again suceeded to be the only one that truly loves me
this week was hektek finally the exams were over and we saw some reall harvesting

happen it was awesome I looked at the planner on monday and it was blank monday to

sunday...and so on monday night i prayed harder that ever to be able to get a hold of

people so that we could teach the gospel and we had a miracle on our hands...we were

fortunate enough to find 9 new investigators that week it was awesome and a few of had

really spiritual expiriences at our appt. it was very good my faith has really increased these

last couple weeks as i have been reading the gospels trying to learn more of the savior and

his reallity..and my mind always wanders to the question do i have enough faith to be healed

by the savior do i really believe that his atonement can heal everything...i realized that my faith

really isnt that much its definately not the size of a mustard seed. I also pondered on the question

what thinks the savior of me? from elder andersons talk and as well as What would i ask the savior??

I have really learned in this area how delicate and what a gift it is from god but also how much we

have to nourish it.. i can see the difference in these chinese students from a 3rd person view. i can

tell if the are reading everyday and praying sincerely i know when their faith is growing because i can

feel the spirit radiate from them. we had an investigator Rick who 3 weeks ago had the faith to wrestle a bear

but this week he wimped and said that he wouldnt be able to have the courage to ask his supervisor to come to

church again. I asked him have you been reading everyday? no....maybe once. I learned a very important lesson

I must read the scriptures everyday! if i want a chance of returning to god. read pray and church with sincerity

will give me protection...now i understand why you always nagged me to read the scriptures...truth to be

told i had just never been shown how to read them so i never felt like i would get something out of it.

i have learned the importance.

I am a Desciple

Elder Stoddard