June 22, 2011

Well another week has come and gone in the life of Elder Jolly. This week was awesome by all standards! Some of it I will not explain but just trust me, the week was awesome. I feel like a new person. So this was the first week in my new area in Kearns and I absolutely loved it. My new companion Elder Bowers is from the great northwest, to be more exact he is from Yelm. He and I get along great, we have the same personality the same likes, we are always laughing but also we love to work hard. This is going to be a fun transfer. The first day with Elder Bowers he bore some powerful testimony that probably changed me for the rest of my life. He is an excellent missionary, he knows how to work hard and how to also have fun. The amazing part about this ward the Olympic Park 3rd Ward (spanish) is that they are actually doing the ward mission process and who would have thought that it is working. We have recieved 4 referals for less actives that all accepted the invitation to be taught when a member of the ward invited them so we are going to start teaching them starting this week. In the past week Elder Bowers and I have just been going through all the investigators that we have and giving them dates to see how they will take it. Many have been receptive and many have been staight up well not so receptive and so they are going to be the first to be dropped because we are looking for the elect. As we walk from lesson to lesson we have literally been talking to everyone and from that we have set up over 15 appts this week and since last wed. we have picked up 12 new investigators. The work is exploding here and it is great to be apart of it. The only hard part is the fact that our area is like twice as big as my last area and we are still walking and it is very hilly. The Olympic Oval is in the middle of our area and looks amazing as the sun goes down. I have noticed that just in the past week as both me and my companion are native english speakers that my spanish has begun to improve at a faster rate as I have to express my thoughts and I dont have a native to fill in for that which I dont know. The Spirit has helped me too and I have felt its influence and guidance a lot in the past week. I will go into more details next week about inv. as I get to know them more and more and as we get a clearer idea of where they are heading. The gospel is continuing to roll forth and to be a missionary at this time is amazing. I love the mission I was called to serve in and I feel like my mission president, President Miller is always recieving revelation for the mission and for me as a missionary in his mission. I know this church is true and I know we are guided by a living prophet today, just like the primitive church. Everything we teach as missionaries is real and true and I get to live it everyday for 2 years. I love you all, work hard and dont forget to read your scriptures.

 

Love,

Elder Jolly