Baptism!!

No changes can be good too!

Dear everyone-

 

So transfers were this week and I am staying here with Elder Nielsen! I am glad because I can't leave the  family we just baptized, I love them so much!!!! I am finishing Elder Nielsen's training because it takes 12 weeks. I found out that Elder Mostert who was the first missionary I trained is now the AP here so that is cool! Also, I am still District Leader can you believe it?!

 

One of the investigators that we are working with has a baptism date for the 24th of November! Then this week we found this guy who a member took to church and the first lesson we invited him to be baptized the 24th of November as well and he accepted!!! 

 

I have the pilot program still going for the English class. It was a little rough this last week in class but I talked to the guy who is having me do the class and he gave me some tips for how to do it a little better.  

 

We did have a member of the Seventy come this week. His name is Joseph W. Sitati and he was super cool! He taught about our purpose and he taught it like this:

INVITE others to come unto Christ 

by HELPING them 

RECEIVE the restored gospel through

FAITH in Jesus Christ

REPENTANCE

BAPTISM

RECEIVING the Gift of the Holy Ghost and 

ENDURING to the end.

The capitalized words are the action verbs. We as missionaries and members Invite and Help the investigators and we ask why do we invite? and How do we do it? Well the scriptures tell us how if we read 3 Nephi Chapter 9:20-22; 3 Nephi 27:13-22; Matthew Chapter 28, and JST Matthew 3;43-46 tell us the why and how. I won't share what I know because I want to hear your thoughts before I share mine. I like the scriptures a little bit more in Spanish because it's a little more expressive. Anyone who wants to share your thoughts on these scriptures please feel free to do it and share your responses with my mom.

Have a great week everyone!

Love, Elder Reisner

 

* Elder Reisner e-mailed me a picture this week but my computer is being weird and says it is too big to download. I will see if Shane can help me share it with you later this week.*

Sweet is the work

Hola to all my family and friends -

This last week we have just been working really hard finding new people to teach. We found a single sister who is a former investigator, She has a four year old child. She has a brother that served a mission and she is really nice! She is from Mexicali and she said she will read pray and go to church to find out about the truth! So yeah she's a really great investigator! We gave her a baptismal date to shoot for this week so we are hopeful that she will keep progressing.

We also had two new  investigators at church so of course that is always exciting!  We also are going to get a new investigator that a member brought to church this last week! So that is cool!

This last week we visited a less active that says it is a commandment from Jesus Christ to feed us! So every time we go over she feeds us! It's pretty funny. We have a seventy coming to speak to us soon! I am super excited about that! Also, transfers are this week I don't want to leave! I know that whatever happens though it is what Heavenly Father wants and so it will be OK.

Love, Elder Reisner

A week full of trials

Hello to all my family and friends-

So this last week was sad with the passing of Elder Page. I didn't know him but he was my companion's companion in the MTC.  We have just been trying to support each other during this tough time. We also had a funeral here in the mission this last week for a hermana that passed away. I did know her and was sad to hear of her passing. I am sure grateful for the Plan of Salvation and that I have the opportunity to teach it and to know that it is true!

So the family that we baptized last week is a family of 6 including the parents. The husband, wife and one of their children were able to be baptized! They have 3 more kids that the dad will be able to baptize when they are 8!! I was super happy for them and it was very spiritual at the baptism it was really great!  The father of the family has been taught by different missionaries since May and the family started in June. I got here in August and things just started to click for them! They are doing so well and they want to start working on their family history so its awesome!!

 We have dropped a lot of investigators this week and we are trying to find like crazy!

General Conference was great!! The things that stood out to me was Elder Ballard's talk about missionary work and also Elder Holland's talk. The other one of course was President Monson's talk! I think the biggest themes were missionary work in the Lords way with members and misisonaries working together. Also,  getting and staying married were the things that really stood out to me.

I haven't been able to get the pilot program going that I have been asked to do. Mostly because of the funeral that we had this week. Hopefully we can get it going this week.

I  love you all - thanks for the prayers!

Love, Elder Reisner    

Baptisms are amazing!

Dear family and friends-

Sorry that this e-mail is so late! I was able to go to the temple today (Tuesday). I did not get to see the new movie however. This last week was pretty stressful. The best part is that we had a baptism!! Also, they are having me start a pilot program for an English class, I am training and still District Leader.

The baptism for the family that we have been working with for awhile did go through at the very last minute!! It turned out that the mom had a problem that she needed to take care of. She is fine now and repented and the baptism was very spiritual of course!! The husband and wife asked me to baptize them! So that was an awesome experience! The best part was I didn't have to baptize them twice! It was really cool.

I watched General Conference in the Stake Center. Another family that we are working with came to church with us!

This week we taught and we found. I really liked General Conference! I'm really tired today and so I'm really short with my letter. But I'm super happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Love,

Elder Reisner