May 27, 2013

Hello family!

I trust that all is well. That is really too bad about Aunt Daveeda, at least she is in a better place! Hopefully the family takes it well. Good luck as well for exams coming up for Paige and Julia! Also congrats to Peter on being a Zone Leader (as dad would say: not that it's something to be congratulated for, but he will learn a TON from the calling, it's one of the most amazing things to be able to serve the other missionaries as well as serve your investigators)

Our area is good, it took a few days to get used to but we are loving it, easily the strongest overall member core I've seen in Ontario, with the possible exception of Sudbury. We are both zone leaders, that rule hasn't changed. 

Haha, yeah President Stephen's daughter told me she'd sent a photo to her dad, she took it while I was giving a talk. First week in the area and the high councilor bombed so we got shanghai-ed into it! No idea why she'd say I was a good missionary, other than either she liked my talk or she didn't want to say otherwise to someone in my stake presidency!!

Hey, send a big congrats as well to Tanner, sounds like he had a great mission, good for him. It'll bless him for the rest of his life!!

Well, one quick experience and then I'm going to split! We are teaching a young woman named Tabitha right now. She has a lot of family/personal challenges and questions whether or not God is there. Our first lesson we simply taught the nature of God, prayer and baptism, and then invited her to pray and communicate with God for herself. That night, at 10, we got a text "are you guys still awake", and then "I prayed and felt something". She described it like a good, peaceful feeling and tingling all over her body. It's so amazing, as one member put it, how an hour with missionaries and a simple prayer can open the doors to communication with the Supreme Creator of the Universe and the Father of us all. I know He answers, He did, He does, and He always will!

Hope that you all continue to have your own moments of connection with our Father in Heaven! We are doing great, Elder J is great (but he beats me at wrestling :( ), we have lots of fun and we are going to baptize!!! Talk to you next week!

Elder Gedlaman