A Really Hard Busy Week

Well this week was a pretty good week. It was also a really hard week. This week we have been really really busy.

On Tuesday we had our annual Mission Tour (mission conference) where Elder Snow of the presidency of the seventy came and spoke to us for three hours. He was a really motivational guy and got us all really fired up to go out and do a better job at finding and teaching our investigators. He also talked about sacrifices and how we all need to make more sacrifices in our mission. And that serving a mission is not the sacrifice. So hopefully that the missionaries in our mission will all make more sacrifices (including me) and that our mission will be able to see continued and more success.

On Friday we had the baptism on Davide Biondo. Davide is 22 and is actually from Italy. He was being taught by the missionaries in Italy but is engaged to a girl in one of our wards and wanted his future father-in-law to baptize him so he flew out to Utah and we taught him the rest of the discussions and he got baptized on Friday evening. The baptism was a really neat experience because it was all done in Italian the whole baptism service. So I had no idea what was going on there at all, but the spirit was there really strong so I knew that what was going on was right and that heavenly father was well pleased.

We also picked up two new investigators on Saturday. Patricia Hall and her 9 year old son Taylan. They are a really cool family Patricia also has a 7 year old son William who has autism so it is really fun to go over there to that house and try to teach lessons sometimes. But they are on date for baptism for September 19th.

I came upon this quote from Michael Jordan this week that I really really like. It is a quote that is so true. There are always going to be times in our life that things aren't going to go as we plan. Things aren't going to work out perfectly like we want them to. But the great thing is that we learn from all of our experiences and as Michael Jordan puts it he fails to succeed.
So here is the quote from Michael Jordan: "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

I love all of you and thank all of you for all that you do! I hope to hear from you soon!

Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Reed Anderson