November 18, 2013

Hey Everybody,

 

Seems like it was not that long ago that I was emailing you guys!! Mom sounds like your trip to sunny Califonia was a blast! Just so everyone knows it is still way hot down here I can't tell a difference between November and August! Its crazy how close Christmas is, everyone keeps talking about it! Down here in Florida everyone basically skips thanksgiving and goes strait to Christmas. No one here has thanks haha... All the time I ask people what they are thankful for and it seems like no one can ever reply becasue they skip straight to Christmas. But thats okay I love the Christmas spirit and there is no better time to tell people about Christ then at Christmas time. I have always wondered how general authority's say that the best Chritmas they have are while they serve a mission. I think I am starting to realize why. Because for two Christmas's I really get to focus on the real meaning of Christmas and get to share it with other people. I hope we will be able to get the attention of people and share the wonderful message of Christ! Quick Question how is Levi doing?? I think about him a lot and always pray for him? Blake and Jana wrote me and I have been meaning to write them back but time is just so short on p-days!

 

Well the weekly report is going to be great! How could it not be great I get to serve the Lord all day everyday! Did you know that the muslums are crazy?? We were trying to find some lost members and a door that we knocked on has a muslum lady! She tried to preach to us and tell us we were all wrong and messed up, well then when it came time to leave she wouldn't even shake our hand! They are pretty weird. But she is a daughter of God so Heavenly Father loves us all the same. I just hope one day she will reconginze the truth. This week I realized why I was called to and English speaking mission. I cannot figure out how to speak spanish at all. I really want to learn but I don't think it will ever happen. I went on exchanges up to the spanish missionaries and tried to talk with some people in spanish... it was a disaster!! Therefore the Lord knows me best!! Lets go ahead to Friday! It was on of the best day I have had on the mission (it feels like I say that all the time) But it was super awesome! I feel we were just going from appointment to appointment and that is the best when you are a missionary! We got to teach so many people and that was sweet!

 

Saturday was just an average day! Until the night, Elder Halford and I figured if we are going to be successful we need to find more investigators, at the sametime we were wanting to have some fun so we made the best of both worlds! We aren't allowed to tract at all so we just have to street contact people and pray that someone will listen. We decided to go to the local store and sit in front of them and pass out card and help as many people as we saw. Well of course my comp wants to make a compition out of this so we each got 3 card and tried to see who could get them out first... I lost... Oh well I will do better next time! Up until about 10 minutes ago we haven't heard from anyone... As we sit here in the Library we get a call from someone we don't know... come to find out it was one of the people we handed out cards to so hopefully something will come from it and I will be able to tell one of those unbelieveable missionary stories!

 

Sunday was a whole day in itself! We were still trying to get Fidel coming to church even though we stopped teaching him. He decided to come and see what it had in store for him. It was the first time he stayed for all 3 hours, He loves sacrament meeting but usually leaves once that is done. Sunday he stayed and in sunday school our ward mission leader knew what he had been struggling with and just changed the whole lesson for him. It was incredible. He has been having problem with so many things and he has been getting really down on himself but we all helped cheer him up and showed him that it doesn't have to be like that! I think in that lesson he decided to change his ways. He road home with us and told us that for this entire week he is going to be clean from all the worldly things. I pray so hard that he will be able to do this and recongnize the change it will have on his life. I think that this could be the turning point for him. He has hit rock bottom and now the only way is up! Sunday night we stopped by and gave him a pie and he told us that sense he made the desion things have been going better already! I hope that we really can do this and he sees the blessings it bring. I love this man and his family so much!

 

Hopefully you guys all get my pictures that I sent! What a wonderful time it is to be a missionary and how blessed we are to be at the stage of life where we can spread the gospel to everyone! I hope everyone has a great week!

 

Love,

Elder Williams!!!!

 

 P.S the picture is of Rocky and his family at his baptism!