April 19, 2005
E-mail of April 17, 2005 with Pictures
Dear Mom and Dad,
I got the announcement about Mom's graduation. I can't believe mom is graduating; it just seems a little strange. I also got all the passport information, and I have an appointment today to get that done. Also, the talk that Mom enjoyed so much from the Sunday afternoon session was by Elder Bednar, I enjoyed that one a lot too. I was surprised at how good of a speaker he is because he is so young to be an Apostle.
This week was a pretty good week. Our Zone Leader, Elder Turpin, came to go on exchanges with us, so he came tracting with me. I just picked a random street, and we really didn't have any success, until we found a house that had been referred to us earlier to go and bless, but I did not know that. So they invited us in and asked me to bless their home, which I did and then we proceeded to teach them a first lesson. It is very awesome when the Spirit can lead you to things like that.
Another thing that happened this week was that I had my first opportunity to give someone a blessing. I was pretty nervous, and I was shaking pretty bad, but I relied on the Spirit and said whatever came into my mind. It was short, but he said it was exactly what he needed to hear. I am glad I finally had an opportunity to give a blessing. We also had the opportunity to teach four or five different investigators at once over at a member's home, it was a little strange, because we had been planning on showing the video about missionary work, which we did, but we had to change what we usually say to apply to non-members also. I think it went pretty well, and three people were given Book of Mormons.
Other than that, the week has been a little slow, but I know that if I keep working hard, things will happen. Congratulations again Mom.
Love,
Timothy
