This week was pretty awesome. Monday was one of the worst days of
my mission so far but on Tuesday we all worked hard. Our main goal for
this week was to set the mission record for copies of the Book of Mormon
placed, we got our inspiration from the movie, "The Best Two Years"
where they set the record for their mission by placing 62 so we decided
we wanted to do 63. We did a ton of tracting, which is actually one of
my favorite things, and a ton of contacting and hit 63 exactly by
Saturday. From all this work we picked up three investigators just from
the tracting alone, which is extraordinary and then got referrals for
three more people. One of the people we met tracting is a 17 year old
boy named Ernie. He is the student body president at Mater Dei Catholic
High School, which is this huge nationally ranked school here. When we
first knocked on the door we noticed a sign on it that looked a lot like
a paraphrased version of Mosiah 18:9 so we wondered if maybe they would
be members. He opened the door with this huge smile his face and
immediately started talking to us like old friends, which worried us at
first because usually when people react like this it means they want to
bash with us. It turned out to be an amazing lesson, he was super humble
and super open to what we taught him and wants to keep learning more,
especially because he has an uncle who is a member. He committed to read
the Book of Mormon and to pray about it and was excited to do so since
he is on Thanksgiving break. I got to have a meeting with President
Orgill Sunday night. He is so loving and it was awesome to be able to
sit down with him and just talk. It will be a sad day when he leaves
next year. From all that has happened this week it has been a huge
lesson to me about how when we trust that God has a plan for us that
things will work out. As we worked we didn't see much success at first
other than being able to give out huge amounts of the Book of Mormon and
being able to talk to a lot of people but then in the last couple days
all sorts of people popped up who wanted to learn more. It just helped
show that when we do the work that Heavenly Father asks us to do no
matter our situation in life He will bless us and give us the extra
strength we need because He loves us with a perfect love and wants
what's best for us. I love this new area I'm in, I love the ward, my
companions and especially the people we are teaching. I know this church
is true and that it is Christ's restored gospel on the Earth today. I
know the Book of Mormon is true and that through it we can come to know
the love of our Savior and our Father in Heaven better than through any
other book and I'm happy to share it and bear testimony of it to the
people I meet everyday out here, because they are all children of God
and they are good people and I need to be with them.
Love
Elder Cheever
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