The cows and chickens are going to the dickens!

Hello everyone!  I've officially been a missionary for an entire year!  Full-time missionary, that is.  We are all missionaries and this past week as been a testimony of that for me.  Our ward relief society president accompanied us to a lesson and said the perfect things.  Go members!

We had a great specialized training this last week in Reynoldsburg.  Let's just say that the Assistants look quite fetching in hula skirts, and that President and Sister Nilsen are superstars!  We learned so much!  The assistants focused on fishing with nets -- not spears.  (Hence the hula skirts; Elder M. was Chief Mac Attack and Elder S. was O'Wise Steggy Weggy.  I love missionaries!  They have so much fun!)  President and Sister Nilsen had just returned from a mission presidents' seminar in Kirtland, so they were on fire!  So good.  It helped to fill our spiritual well, which gets depleted sometimes.

We are going through a trial of faith at the moment.  We've been finding like crazy for the past few weeks but haven't found a lot of new investigators.  We know that, as long as we keep working hard and smart, just as President promised at specialized training, the Lord will be able to accomplish his will and help us find his children who are prepared.  He will even lead them to us if that's what it takes.  So we'll just keep pushing through!

We got a lot of referrals this week -- some from members and some from nonmembers.  We're still trying to contact them all.  I wish everyone was just waiting at home for us to knock on their doors and teach them the gospel!  The truth is that some people are, and those are the ones we need to find -- people who are willing to be committed to the gospel and the Savior.  We'll keep finding!

T., C. ad H. are coming along.  We were able to teach them the Plan of Salvation and it went so well.  Here is something I would like people's input on, especially those who joined the Church at an older age: How were you able to wrap your head around the idea of "one true church?"  A lot of people just can't understand that concept.  I just doesn't register.  We're looking for bold but non-abrasive ways to explain.  If you have any ideas, send me a letter!  We need your help!