September 17, 2012

This week was another tough one. We are finding a lot of new people to teach with all the contacts we do and everything but when we teach them they don't have any desire to learn more or search for answers with God. But we keep chugging along and im sure that we will continue finding the Lord´s elects here in Itu. The area here is huge so we have plenty of new people to find every day without a doubt. We just gotta get out there and continue working hard like weve been working and the Lord will bless us with people who want to follow Christ.
This week we also had the baptismal interview with the young woman that is preparing for baptism and she passed. Shes really excited to be baptized and her dad is even more excited. Her dad has been waiting an entire year for this and now its finally falling into place. She is super intelligent and the elder that interviewed her said that the interview was really great. So she should be baptized this next saturday which is the day we have marked with her. So this week we´ll be preparing her for her baptism.
The zone is going pretty well too and we are baptizing weekly as a zone which is fantastic. We can definately be baptizing more per week but at least its weekly. As a zone leader its pretty neat because you get to see everything thats happening in the areas in my zone and how we can help each one. But its also a tough thing because you know everything thats happening in each of the areas haha. The good and the bad. It can get pretty stressful. If all the missionaries in our zone, or mission, or the world were working as hard as they could every day and doing the best that they could there would be a lot more converts to the church. I have so much respect for the mission and this glorious work that we do as servants or the Lord and representatives of Christ and i just want to do all that i can during these 2 years that i have. And i know that im doing the best i can and that i will do even more. No one else will do this work for me so i gotta do it. And its definately not easy, but i love it. This is the Lords work without a doubt in my mind and He is waiting on each and every missionary to do the best he can. And i will do the best i can for the time that i have which is short.


Eu Te Amo
Elder Gleason


P.S. Alma 34:9-10, 27, 31-33; 36:3-4, 19-21 and 2 Chr 24:19