Dear Family
How are you doing? It sounds like you are doing well! So a couple weeks ago the church changed our e-mail site and they gave everyone new e-mail addresses & they didn’t let you pick. So anyways this week has been a good week. We had Zone Conference which was wonderful. I learned a lot and gained a lot of information that has helped me out. The spirit was really strong there & it was just a really good experience. We talked about opposition in all things which was cool to discuss, we also talked about how courage is important, because without it all other virtues fail, and our topic this Zone Conference was to be more like Jesus Christ, mainly referring to his attributes. It was really good and I really enjoyed it. Also this week we have a wonderful opportunity to hear from Elder L. Tom Perry from the Twelve Apostles. He is meeting with all of the missionaries in the mission so there will be a little over 200 missionaries there. I am really looking forward to it so it should be really fun, and spiritual.
Also this week we biked around 6 miles to get to an area that is way out there but for some reason it is in our area. It is called Gunbarrel, and also Heatherwood. It took us about an hour to bike out there and we worked in that area till dinner which was out there. Then after dinner we got a ride home, which helped out a lot because it would have been mostly up hill the whole way back! It was a beautiful ride out there though and I took a lot of pictures! Haha There are a good amount of members that live out it that area so we will probably go out there again soon.
This week we were able to find a new investigator. His name is Travis and he is in his 40’s and has a tough past. So we were riding to go see some people in a part of our area and we got a call from a member who lives in the Residence Inn in our area. Her daughter who lives in a different ward has a boyfriend who wanted a blessing, so we said we would love to and they also said he would like to be taught the lessons that we teach as missionaries, and we said we would love to do that as well! So that night we went over to the members house and met, Travis, he is way cool! We gave him a blessing which was really spiritual. Then we taught the first lesson that we teach and he totally agreed with everything and really enjoyed it. The spirit was really strong the whole time we taught the lesson and Travis agreed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon and gladly set up a time for us to teach him again! Unfortunately he is not in our area, so we had to turn him over to the missionaries of his area. We actually went to the appointment with the new missionaries last night in Travis’s apartment. It was an awesome experience he again loved what we had to say and again the spirit was really strong. We also set him for baptism on March 13th and he said he would love to and that he had been having a desire to be baptized again but he didn’t know why and now he says it makes sense! It was awesome! He has defiantly been prepared! I will never forget Travis! It was such a cool experience, and it was wonderful to be able to be apart of his path which is leading him closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!
Well my time is running out! I love you so much! I hope you have a great week! I hope you have a good Birthday Mom! Happy Birthday! I love you guys so much! I will talk to you next week! Have a good week! I love you so much!
Love
Elder Lassen
Miracle of the week: Being able to teach Travis, and to feel the spirit so strongly when doing so and his acceptance of being baptized!