Working and finding to help with the hastening of the work!!

Dear family and friends- 

 

Wow! Lots of changes in our ward! We didn't have a baptism on Sunday, our investigator said he still didn't feel quite ready. We weren't able to meet with him as much as we wanted to last week. Today we are going to go over and tell him that he already has received his answer and we know that he is ready to be baptized! 

 

We did find a girl investigator she has really good potential.  The only thing with her is she has to work on Sundays so we are hoping that she can get Sundays off to go to church.  (side note from mom - I am trying to keep Elder Reisner's investigators names out of his e-mail to protect their privacy. So that is why you see family or guy or girl investigators) 

 

The family we are teaching know why we are there now. The dad of this family is accepting the gospel more and more. His son is a missionary currently serving in the Provo, Utah mission. He sent an e-mail home to let his family know that the missionaries were coming to teach them. He had to return from his mission to get a surgery and made friends with one of the elders here.  

 

So with the transfer this last week I get to stay with Elder Steffen. It is going good with him! I am staying in El Monte and I am happy about that!

 

So now to this week. We had a ton of lessons the first of the week and found a new family! We took a young man that is preparing for a mission and he went out with us like basically all day which was really awesome!! We just have been trying to find people but it has been so HOT in the 100's! Nobody really wants to answer their door. That's ok we all have to keep working and finding. We are looking at ways that we can use the members better to find. We set up appointments this week with some members so that we can do some more finding through them in an effective way. I know that we can find because we have been finding three or more new investigators every week. We just have to have the faith to help them progress to baptism! 

 

Also, another one of our investigator families came to church with us this week so that was really great!  Anyway that's all I have this week!

Love, Elder Reisner