12/16/12

Hello Family Mom and Dad,

This last week went by really fast.  I hardly can remember what happened this last week.  Well tomorrow is transfers and my comp is moving.  Haha i knew before you did Mom  hahaha but i already know that you probably know my new companion and have already eaten lunch with his parents and have taken pictures and have both shared our life stories hahaha am i right?  I really am going to miss Elder Jensen.  He has been a really good companion.  I feel like he is one of my friends.  He has taught me so much about being a zone leader.  Like i said most things are just a blur this last week but a couple of things reallt stuck out that i would like to share you this week.  It may be small things but it really meant a lot to me.  

So President Senior has really been stressing that we need to be teaching at every opprotunity  that we have.  We dont have to be sitting down in a house and pray to open and close to actually teach the gospel but he has been telling us to preach in every place just like Christ and the prophets in the scriptures.  So i prayed for the chance to find someone while going to another area to go and interview someone for baptism.  We bought tickets and turns out that our tickets didnt put us next to each other but that my comp was sitting in front of me.  So i sat next ot this guy who just started college and i started talking to him and after we got introduce he asked what i was doing here.  He thought that i was a student but i explained that we are missionaries and that we come to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ.  He started listening to my testimony and then i felt that i should ask him if he would like to learn more about it.  He said yes and we were on a 2 hour bus ride so i started to teach him about the Restoration.  Taught him the entire restoration and gave him the Book of Mormon and he then told me that he was trying to find someone to teach him these things for a while but just didnt know where to go to find a church to go to.  He was in the other elders are but i didnt care.  We made a return appointment and got his number.  I then called the other elders and told them what happened and they are going to be teaching him tomorrow.  

This helped me learn and knwo two things.  God loves all of His Children and will always answer their prayers.  Another is that if we are worthy and ready to share the Gospel, He will give us the chance to do so.  I know that the things that you ahve taught me since a was a little kid are true and that this will help people no matter what circumstance they may be in.  I know that Heavenly Father is watching over us and that he knwo what we all need in this life.  HE sent Christ to come and help us get back to Him so long as we have and exercise faith in Jesus Christ.  I know that the fulness of the Gospel is in the Book of Mormon and that as Joseph Smith said a man will grow closer to God when he reads it.

That was the highlight of the week.  Thank you so much for your prayers and everything that you do for me to be out here.  I know that all of you have sacrificed something for me to be out here. Thank you so much

Elder Revelli