Blue Island Letter #25

Snowing Greetings from Illinois!

The District is doing great! The new elders are awesome. I am really looking forward to Zone Meeting tomorrow, as well as Stake Conference this weekend.  They'll be having two sessions for conference: one in English, the other in Spanish. 

Well....Diane kinda diappeared. Sometimes that happens. We're still trying to contact her. Same with the cute family that caught us at the door. We've contacted them, but for some reason or another, we've not been able to meet with them each time. We've got an appointment with the family planned for this Saturday.

We found a gal from Argentina a while back. We returned and taught both her and her older brother. We returned for the third appointment to teach her brother and mother. The mother wants to read the Book of Mormon out of curiosity.  The son, on the other hand, since the first lesson has been very interested in reading the Book of Mormon in order to know if it is from God. In our recent lesson, he taught his mom several principles (using biblical backing) about specific things we were discussing.  For instance, she has a big doubt about anyone actually seing God -- her understanding of the Bible is that no one actually saw God's body - just felt His presence, but her son used the example of Moses seeing God. Her son is AWESOME. The son said that if the Book of Mormon is true, he wants to do something about it. We invited them to be baptized when they receive that testimony. They are very intelligent, faithful, great people. It was a great cita (appointment).

We had WONDERFUL experiences with a couple of less active members of the ward this week.  They don't attend church because they work on Sundays.  One member felt the spirit tell him how he can make a change about his work schedule.

Our ward is blossoming and uniting more and more, it's beautiful! It is a ward full of so many great people, many great leaders. The three baptisms in two weeks seemed to really pump up the ward.  The three new converts are being welcomed with open arms. The ward is making a great push to help reactivate; they are going on regular outings to visit the menos activos (less active) a minimum of once a month.

Love,
Leshelle