Medford is on Fire! August 22, 2016

Medford is quite literally on fire...we had 107 degrees on Friday, Saturday

was 105 and Sunday finally cooled down to 102. Thank goodness for

shade! Well, not really. It's still hot under the shade.

We had a miracles happen this week! We got a referral, a SELF referral

mind you, of a guy named Jason. We met him Monday night. Jason wants

to make his life better and his daughter, JC also wants to know more.

Jason has a son too, named Ryden. We taught them the whole Restoration

on Monday and they accepted to be baptized! On the first lesson!!!!!

We taught them the Plan of Salvation later in the week and they

accepted to be baptized on September 17! They said they would come to

church, but they didn't make it. 😒 We have a lesson later with them

tonight on the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are so excited!

If you remember Enrique and Ruben, we tried all week to have lessons

with them. One day we had a lesson with their dad, Ben. Ben was

drinking and told us his whole life story in an hour. He's had a rough

life. But we told him of the blessings of the gospel, of how his life

will literally change if he would just listen. He got sick this week,

so that also made it hard to meet with them. But Enrique has been

reading the Book of Mormon! 😆  We will probably have to move their

baptism day back a bit, it depends on what happens this week!

On Friday, after District meeting, our Zone leaders did an inspired

pump up meeting! We talked about setting goals and how we can achieve

ANYTHING with the Lord on our side. We need to change our thoughts to

become great, we have to literally believe one thought: I am NOT an

average missionary.

That thought has completely changed what I do throughout the day. We

chased people down the street because the spirit prompted us to.

Eternal Salvation cannot wait. Fear is of the enemy and we are

fighting for the God of Heaven and earth- Jesus Christ. We cannot wait

to share the gospel, and I will not be average. With His help, I can

rise to become that missionary I always wanted to be.