Last week Elder Celeste, and I got doubled in to our new area, (Doubled in means that we are both new to the area), and unfortunately we didn't have very much to work with, but we did experience many miracles this week!
On Monday we met with Brother Solesbee, our ward mission leader, and I have to say that he is the best Ward Mission Leader that I have served around. He is awesome and his vision for the work is great and we feel that it is spot on with what the ward needs. We worked with him and established a game plan for the work in the ward, and as we have done so we have seen SO many miracles. He feels like the members in the ward are doing a great job of sharing the gospel with their friends, and as we have visited with close to 30 families this week we have seen that that is true, the problem is many of the members don't know what the next step is, or how to follow up on the commitments that they leave. We have been working on helping them with that.
As Elder Celeste and I were Studying on Wednesday, we both ended up reading the same chapter in the Book of Mormon, and as we were pondering on how to help the members we both were touched by the same verse, Alma 26:22
"Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing—unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance,even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance."
We felt impressed to share this with the members of the ward, and along with that we felt impressed to share Chapter 11 from Preach My Gospel with members. We shared our plan with Brother Solesbee, and as we did so his comment was, "Elders, this is exactly what the ward needs." As we Implemented the commitment to the members we have gotten more referrals than I have ever gotten on my mission! I am very excited to see what the Lord has in store for me here.
I love all of you guys!
Elder Bangerter
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