Rimgrove - the first week

Dear family and friends,

 

This week was a great week here in the Rimgrove area! I started getting to know my new companion and we get along super great and we are going to do some good here in this ward!  

We started Monday by visiting some members and building trust with them so they can give us referrals to teach more people.  Just when I thought I couldn't love any other members then I met these families and I know I will be able to love the members of this ward! 

Tuesday we taught Brian and Diana which are our only investigators. (not for long) Dianna was baptized two weeks ago and Brian is pretty close to getting there! We also had appointments with some less actives and we went by mutual to meet more of the members.  

Wednesday we worked with less actives and we taught Brian again. We invited him to be baptized and he said yes! We have his baptismal date set for November 11th which is very exciting! 

Thursday we had district meeting which was good. We talked about the area book again. The Zone Leaders announced that we get to participate in a Christmas parade as missionaries on December 1st which is pretty exciting!  We also visited less actives and contacted a bunch of people on the street.  

Friday we studied and did weekly planning and tried to visit less actives but found out that they moved so we just contacted people. We found some great people and we had a noche de hogar with a family which turned out really well! 

Saturday we had a soccer activity and taught some lessons with Brian and had correlation meeting.  

Sunday was a great day! Dianna got confirmed in Church (one of the investigators we had in Rimgrove) so now she is a recent convert who has a solid testimony of the church! We also had a meeting where this family is super excited to work with us. They want us to help get more people doing family history work. Then as they do their family history it will help us to find investigators using that way.  It was out of the blue and cool to see people excited about that! Then we had Maria's baptism back in San Gabriel. It was really spiritual and I was so blessed to have found her and to be able to perform the baptism ordinance!  In the baptismal service Maria bore her testimony and it is so strong and she knows the gospel is true! The ward loves her and has already assigned her visiting teachers and home teachers which is good. We also had 2 musical numbers 3 testimonies and 2 talks it was a lot for a baptism but it was all really good! We had 2 lessons after the baptism so it was a full day. I love this area it's going to be a really great area and I am excited to work with these new members and love them as well! But I love all of you and I hope you have a great week!

Love, Elder Reisner