Hey family! oct 11 2011
this week was great! there was a lot of great things thathappend, and the work has picked up! Just Fyi this week was transfer and i amnow getting transferd, i am not 100% where yet but i am moving wensday,President woods used to call and just tell you where you are going... PresidentWall is having us all meet up and then he is going to anounce where we aregoing! it will be new to me! new thinds are fun! McComg has been a tuff area.when we first got here no one wanted to help, infact our branch president andward mission leader did not support the missionary work. asked if the branchpresident would help us a few times and all the times he just said NO. and theward mission leader was really rude, he even told us we were worthless and weneed to just stop and leave..... ya at church when you waled it it just feltgross, there was only a few members that would come each week, and it wasreally really lame... for the last month there has been around 50 members eachweek! some members cleaned the church really good so it doesnt smell like oldpeople, we cleaned the out side of the church so it looks really nice! andthere has now been maybe couple great families re activated! there was abrother Daniel pierse we walked into church for the first time in like a fewyears last week and he said he could feel a huge differnace. and the stakepresident and i meet last week after chhurch for a little bit and he said hecould feel a huge differnce, he had been to church many of times but this lastpast week really felt the spirit! it is amazing that this little branch in adeing city is now living and growing! it is really amazing! alot of membershave started to help and it has made a huge differnace! we haev 3 famlies thatwill come out teaching once a week, before i had to plead for a week just toget a member to come out teaching! so the work in this little town is doinggreat! on top of that there is 4 less active families that have not been tochurch in a very long time that are right on the ridge of comming back tochurch! it is amzing! plus what ever work the sisters are doing, like i thinkthat they have 2-3 families that are thinking of comming back and thereprepareing a few people to go to the temple! we really one have oneinvestigater that is progressing, it is whitney Rutter! she is amazing! he dadis a temple working in the baton rouge temple! she grew up in the Mormonchurch, and the baptist church. dad mormon, mom baptist! she thinks, acts andbelives like a mormon would do! she wachted all of generil confrance and reallyliked it, and she watched that women confrance a week or so again! but she isweel on her way! she even told us how much she wated to go to the temple! shehas started to read the book of mormon, she is almost done with the 1 book of nephi,and is excitted to be done so she can read the doctrine and covedents! she hasread them all in the past but now she is reading with re intent and looking tosee if what we are teaching is true! so she is really great! so i might of toldyou this or i might onot told you, or i told you and you forgot, or i sent itto you and it didnt make it, or soething else? about 4.5 months ago McComg wastrying to be shut down! the stake prayed about it, then gave it to the rear guywho is prayed about it and he gave it to elder Gonzles, who prayed about it andthought it should be shut down, then gave it to the church shut down crew andmake branches and wards person who elder Benard and Elder christopherson of the12 were on. and they all prayed and decided that mcComb needed to be shut down!so then it went to the first presidency and it was on President eyerings deskand he read it prayed about it, then prayed about it! and he decided it shouldnot be shut down! since then it has been amazing to see the hand of thelord in this work! our stake president when him and i were talking saidsomething about president eyeing and this area ( i didnt quite understand him)but he said something like he had been watching this area and is like reallyexcitted about it! it is crazy that some one who is of the first presidencylooks at little branches in mississippi! anyways i thouhgt that was reallyneat! so latly i have been thinking somewhat about whwn i get home and what todo?.... that is the million dollor quistion what to do? but i have beenthinking of maybe going to shool again, i alost hate to say it but maybe BYUIdaho? mom do you know when school starts there i kow marianne went there andthat is why i might ask you when it starts... i would ask marriane, but maybe youkow!!?!?!?! i doubt i would even get accepted becouse of my grades, but itnever hurts to try! I am kinda sand to leave McComb I have been being here forsooo long now, and i have really like the change, it is almost an area whereyou would want to go! becosue there are now so many members on fire! well thisletter is huge it seems like, i was going to make it in big print just soo itlooks like i wrote more but that would be lying so i am not going to! but ihope that yall are having great week!
Love
Elder Joshua Kiser!
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