Monday, February 28, 2011

Hello Family and Friends!

This week has been great like always of course! The weather is picking up and I feel spring coming! This past week we saw two really amazing miracles!

The first one happened while I was in Moscow at a leadership training and my companion stayed behind to get some work done. My companion worked with with the Senior Couple Elder and Sister Forsyth. Well, a few weeks ago we found this guy named Sergei and we gave him a Book of Mormon and within a couple of weeks he read the whole thing. (This is the man who has died and been brought back to life two times) Well they were able to meet with him while I was gone. I guess the lesson just went amazing!! I guess Elder Forsyth told his conversion story and Elder Forsyth later explained to me that he could feel that Sergei was feeling the spirit very strong. Well two days ago we called him up to see how he was doing and he was so excited to hear from us! He could not thank us enough and just kept talking about how much he appreciated me and Elder Forsyth for opening up our souls to him and because of that he wants to open up his soul to us. He said that he could just feel how passionate we are about this work and this gospel and wants to know more about it! Anyways the guys is great! And better than that he has a few kids and a wife! So, we are really excited about him!

The second miracle of course happened again with Alex like always! He is amazing! This time we talked about the brother of Jared and getting answers to prayers. He has not yet received his answer about the Book of Mormon but continues to read and pray. Well we asked how he expects to get an answer. He said that he expects it through feelings and pure knowledge... he said that he expects something profound and unmistakable.We talked about the brother of Jared and how he had questions to the Lord as well but the Lord required a little bit more from him to get the answer, he wanted him to figure it out and then come to him with the solution. You could really see his body language change as he started to feel the spirit and connect with what we were talking about. So, we asked him if he would commit to being baptized on the 26th of March and go the Lord in prayer with a sincere heart willing to be baptized on that date and see what he says. Well, he agreed! So right now we have a baptism set for the 26th of March and we are pumped about it!!

This week is going to be another crazy week! I am going to Kiev tomorrow to renew my visa and then we will be in Smolensk on splits. We are working hard in our mission on a goal to baptize 31 by 31 and so it is crunch time in this last month! Aka I like to call this week MARCH MADNESS! This week is going to be "Crazy Hard Working Week" and we hare going to cut back all of our studies and eating time and even lessons to focus on finding new and chosen people out there! so it is going to be an awesome week full of miracles with contacting and tracting! Biggity biggity booyaa!!

Well the work is going great and we are reallly trying to flip this city which has seen only one baptism in the past year upside down!! I love you all and I am grateful for all that you do! Jesus loves you :) Remember who you are :) and the Church is true!

Elder Weihing