Tuesday, July 9, 2013

"Abound in good works"

Dear Family and friends,
Man it has been a interesting week. I'm glad you all had fun in waterton. it has been a long time since I've been to that place. i wouldnt mind going back. although my last trek to canada got me very sick.
So my job as a district leader is basically to inspire everyone to have the mindset to baptize. i help with there investigators receive revelation how they can better help people make the commitment to follow Jesus Christ into the waters of baptism. The biggest thing is that i train the other elders and sisters to be better missionaries through companion studies and district meeting. i also recieve all the numbers from them and help them do better things to make there numbers(souls) better. And if needed i make sure that people are obedient and encourage them to follow Christ. i dont like having to take away things from the elders or sisters. they are pretty obedient anyways. its all good. there are 6 including me. normal size district.
SOO yesterday i ran into the chandlers. they are going to a mission in china or japan. anyways they told me they have a son living in sammamish. I made the connection and i figured it was brother chandler. soo i met his parents here. And apparently i only missed them by a day or two or i would have run into them at that ward. cool stuff.
We also had the 4th celebration on thursday. we all went in had a spiritual thought and then we had a great time in the sandy institute. i played basketball all night. Its the best. although it is very very rough. there are no fouls and you first to score stays. and you rotate in about 30 other elders. I had a great team and we won like 25 in a row. it was my old zone leader me and and two other elders he knew were pretty good. I really think ive gotten better at basketball. much better at shooting. and that opens up the driving game.
Wow sounds like there are so many changes going on at home! how am i going to keep up with it all???haha And for everyones information they changed a few rules to let the missionaries be a little more normal. the side bags is world wide, we can wear khaki pants now and we can wear sweaters and cardigans now. they want our personality to come out a little more but still look professional.
My spiritual thought mosiah 5:15 tells us that we need to always abound in good works in order to have eternal life. Alma 7:24 says that if we have faith hope and charity we will abound in good works.
Love you all take care
Elder Salmon

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