July 30, 2008

Hey fam and friends,

So this week was great I love this work more and more as each day goes by. I'm having a lot of great expiriences that strengthen my faith. Mike Leavitt gave a talk at the visitors center and his main theme was faith. He related it to molocules. He told stories that build up his faith and each time some experience happens that strengthens his faith it was a molocule of faith it was such a great talk i think he should write a book on that theme. Any way the point of that was to say that each and everyday i'm gaining molocules of faith. Saturday was one of the most depressing days of my life. Every appointment we had dogged us or fell through, we had a visitors trip planned for that night and it got canceled, little by little i became more and more depressed about the day. Anyway after dinner we decided to take our bikes out and bike to a guy we tracted into he is black and his name is Tony Hayes. His son just was put into jail and he is having a very hard time. When we got there because of the time he is going through his brother was there and his best friend so we biked up to the house and they treated us like family. They were so intrested in what we had to say, who i was, and really treated us like family. They really brightened my day. This man knew that Heavenly Father had given him all the things he had. He know the reason he is well off was because of God, and even through the trials he is suffering and all the bad in his life he only sees how great his Heavenly Father has been to him and aknowledges it. It make me see how good i had it and lifted me up because i felt so a part of their family. I like black people alot more than white out here. There is something about them maybe humility they are just nicer and kinder than white people.
So sunday was really good i love sundays we get up at 5:30 and go to meetings and church then we have my favorite meeting Ward mission corilation ( I don't know how to spell that ha ha) Bro. Walsman is my favorite person ever he is so dedicated to his calling. We were planning follow up meetings for the ward mission plan we issued and he was setting up follow ups for this day and his wife said,"thats your birhtday dan ... if you care." He just looked at her and was like i don't care. Than looked at us and said, "Commitment" i laughed so hard but he honestly can be described in that one word commitment. He is the perfect example of magnifying your calling i wish more members were like him.
So we got a kinda new investigator this week named Annie she was taught in this area before by the sisters but the elders took over the area and were kind of apostate missionaries so they didn't do anything anyway Sister Hodson saw us at the visitors center and told us to visit her and we did it was a great experience she knows its true i just know she does she will progress and get baptised.
We are also teaching a 19 year old named matt he is cool and i'm hopefull he will be baptised he is so sincere in his desire to find the truth that i'm pretty confident he will come to the knowledge of the truth.
Well i'm off thanks for all the letters i know this church is true. I know it was restored through Joseph Smith. Most importantly I know without a shadow of a doubt that the book of Mormon is the most true book in the world. I know the fulness of the gospel is contained in its pages i love you all bye.
-Elder Ammon Medina