January 26, 2015 Week 81

hijole que paso?‏

Well this week has gone by very fast.  It is starting to freak me out a little. 

This week has been great though.  I am tell'n ya the weather here is nice. 

This has been the mildest January of my life. 

I am honored to be in the furthest south part of the mission, missionary and frio = no bueno. 

This area is exploding.  

As we have started our big search of the 295 households in our area alone, we have seen so many miracles.  

It seems as we have turned to the will of the Bishop we have seen so much success

and not just that, it has been effective success.  

Just in this past week we have found 5 new part member families that no one in the ward has heard about (4 of which the Bishop told us to knock...he didn't know them).  It has been crazy.  

One of our recently returning members is on fire.  He shared with us yesterday that we need to get his wife baptized before we leave.  This was definitely not his mindset a month ago.  He asked us if he could go out with us teaching....

ummm YES you can!  That kinda rebuked us.  He shared his vision to go to the temple this year.  

It is amazing to see the surge that comes from a member returning to activity, it really is the same as a recent convert! 

One PMF that we found this week was super prepared. 

Bro B lived in SLC his whole life but never was a mormon. But his first wife that he married was and she got him into the church.  Unfortunately his first marriage ended in a divorce and he moved to WHYoming(haha Larry). 

Well he found his second wife there and she wasn't a member but she also grew up in Salt Lake City. 

Well they eventually made it to Wichita Falls where they have almost completely avoided contact with the church, living in an over 55 residency.  

Well they were found on Saturday night and it was thanks to Bishop (he told us to go see who they were.) 

Of course they were on the ward roster but no one knows anyone on it.  

Well they are sweet! 

They love skiing and their daughter is a professional snowboarder and competes against Olympians! 

So after getting really trunky by talking about back-country skiing and Utah we able to get their story. 

I guess Bro B hadn't read the scriptures for 5 years but for some reason he decided to read them that morning...then guess who showed up that night!! THEM GOOD OL MISSIONARIES!! It is amazing how that works... 

Then you can pretty much X3 this story for this week. #effectivefinding

Tip of the week--follow the council of those that have keys over you, you will see many doors open because of it...

pun not intended.

love y'all 

Thanks for all you do!
ELDER FINLINSON