Dear Family and Friends,
October 15, 2012 Week 13 Lugansk Ukraine
Wow I cannot express how much I love being out here in the Ukraine preaching to all these people. It is such a blessing to know that I am serving the Lord alongside my best friends who are all around the world. And this last week has built my testimony so much on hard work and the success that ALWAYS follows. So Elder Withers and I have been working really hard to set up as many lessons as we possibly can and fill all of our time with lessons so we do not have to go contacting every single day. I don’t mind contacting but after this last week, teaching is 100 times better! We were able to teach 5 lessons to investigators and 2 to members and for me that is a lot
Wow I cannot express how much I love being out here in the Ukraine preaching to all these people. It is such a blessing to know that I am serving the Lord alongside my best friends who are all around the world. And this last week has built my testimony so much on hard work and the success that ALWAYS follows. So Elder Withers and I have been working really hard to set up as many lessons as we possibly can and fill all of our time with lessons so we do not have to go contacting every single day. I don’t mind contacting but after this last week, teaching is 100 times better! We were able to teach 5 lessons to investigators and 2 to members and for me that is a lot
ha ha Just about every single day I do
believe we had a lesson this last week and it was amazing. One of the things
that truly helps is continually calling them and making sure that they are
going to be there. We call the investigator the night before and then the
day of. I know this may seem a bit much but this is their eternal salvation we
are talking about and if they are not going to show up we cannot waste our time
sitting around waiting for them to show up. It is a blessing to see them tell
us when they can’t make it.
Right now we have one investigator who is awesome. We met him last Monday night and set up a lesson right there. He is an extremely humble man who cannot read very well but nonetheless we were able to have a very spiritual filled lesson with him and we were able to have a member present on it. It went super well and especially since both my companion and my language are the best (but I must say it has increased dramatically since my trainer left) but the member had served a mission and knew exactly what we were saying so she filled in where we had mistakes. It was awesome! He was not able to come to conference but the cool thing was that he called and told us that he wasn’t going to be able to make it, which shows he has a desire to meet with us. The best part as I said before, he was not very good at reading but when we asked him if he had been reading, he said YES and that he was doing it with his mom!!!! How cool is that! He is just awesome and we have another lesson with him tonight and we will hopefully be able to put him on date.
Right now we have one investigator who is awesome. We met him last Monday night and set up a lesson right there. He is an extremely humble man who cannot read very well but nonetheless we were able to have a very spiritual filled lesson with him and we were able to have a member present on it. It went super well and especially since both my companion and my language are the best (but I must say it has increased dramatically since my trainer left) but the member had served a mission and knew exactly what we were saying so she filled in where we had mistakes. It was awesome! He was not able to come to conference but the cool thing was that he called and told us that he wasn’t going to be able to make it, which shows he has a desire to meet with us. The best part as I said before, he was not very good at reading but when we asked him if he had been reading, he said YES and that he was doing it with his mom!!!! How cool is that! He is just awesome and we have another lesson with him tonight and we will hopefully be able to put him on date.
I will let you know how it goes next week.
Now our last zone conference Elder Clarke (who spoke at General Conference by the way) talked to us and really got on us for sitting around waiting for our investigators to show up, but instead of waiting to go outside the church and contact. So we did this last Friday night, we were waiting for English to end to see if our investigator was there and instead of going in we decided to go contacting right outside the church building. And in a matter of 15 minutes we were able to give away a Book of Mormon and get his information and get another contact and set up and appointment for tonight. It was the Lord blessing us for using our time to its fullest and I have a testimony that when we are working hard and doing all that we can to build the kingdom of God he will bless us with success every single time.
We also have another investigator who is from India and is staying with a member here in Ukraine and we had a super good lesson with her as well. So hopefully she will begin to progress this upcoming week. We also met with a man who is Muslim and he had some very deep questions and I feel he has a desire to know answers.
Now our last zone conference Elder Clarke (who spoke at General Conference by the way) talked to us and really got on us for sitting around waiting for our investigators to show up, but instead of waiting to go outside the church and contact. So we did this last Friday night, we were waiting for English to end to see if our investigator was there and instead of going in we decided to go contacting right outside the church building. And in a matter of 15 minutes we were able to give away a Book of Mormon and get his information and get another contact and set up and appointment for tonight. It was the Lord blessing us for using our time to its fullest and I have a testimony that when we are working hard and doing all that we can to build the kingdom of God he will bless us with success every single time.
We also have another investigator who is from India and is staying with a member here in Ukraine and we had a super good lesson with her as well. So hopefully she will begin to progress this upcoming week. We also met with a man who is Muslim and he had some very deep questions and I feel he has a desire to know answers.
He was able to come to the priesthood session of
conference and watch it with us……… so that was good. There is
a lot going on here in Lugansk and I am so excited for the next 5 weeks to just
fly by with miracles along the way.
Now for conference…………… I was not able to watch it last week but we did have the opportunity to watch it the last 2 days……… it was AMAZING! There were so many good talks. In particular I liked Sister Dibb’s talk when she talked about standing out as a Mormon and having a shirt that says "I am a Mormon". We need to be proud of who we are and let the world know. The thing I feel I got out of conference was just always being an example. It seemed that a lot of the talks focused on how we need to be bold about whom we are and that we need to live righteously so that others can see us as true Disciples of Christ. I know that all of the speakers at General Conference are called of God to speak to us and their messages were directed by the spirit to teach everyone something a little different. I know that
Now for conference…………… I was not able to watch it last week but we did have the opportunity to watch it the last 2 days……… it was AMAZING! There were so many good talks. In particular I liked Sister Dibb’s talk when she talked about standing out as a Mormon and having a shirt that says "I am a Mormon". We need to be proud of who we are and let the world know. The thing I feel I got out of conference was just always being an example. It seemed that a lot of the talks focused on how we need to be bold about whom we are and that we need to live righteously so that others can see us as true Disciples of Christ. I know that all of the speakers at General Conference are called of God to speak to us and their messages were directed by the spirit to teach everyone something a little different. I know that
Thomas S. Monson is the prophet on the earth today and
that Joseph Smith truly did restore the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ
once again on the earth today. If any of you were unable to watch conference I
would say take 10 minutes each day for the next few weeks and simply watch or
listen to one of the talks. Conference only happens twice a year and it is a
wonderful opportunity for us to receive personal revelation.
I love you all and I know that this church is true!
Have a wonderful week and always remember The Savior and what He did for each and every single one of us
With love
Elder Litchfield
I love you all and I know that this church is true!
Have a wonderful week and always remember The Savior and what He did for each and every single one of us
With love
Elder Litchfield
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