Hey Texas Whats up I actually started to write in spanish and all but then I remembered that none of you know spanish and that google translate sucks and anyway well everything here is dope I am working hard this week. We actually found a golden investigator her name is Susan not Susana so that a first but ya apparently her friend invited her to church and she well really liked it. She was going to another ward but she lives in our area so the misionaries passed the reference and ya were teaching her and she will be getting baptized this month of December the 12. I am stoked the only problem is her aunt is like anti mormon, we actually first taught her with her aunt and she was like fighting against us the whole time especially when I brought out the book of mormon ( my comp got mad at me for bringing it out ) she started saying were replacing the bible but her niece was like no they told us they use the bible too . I explained it pretty good I thought and we actually had a returned missionary there with us who was Susans friend who helped a lot- but ya I told her to at least pray but she refused saying I'm not going to pray about what I already know is false . By the way that's how you tell that someone is really hard of heart if they refuse to pray . Anyway Susan came to me at church yesterday and explained how she prayed but didn't get an answer. I explained to her that just because you pray doesn't mean that you will get an answer. It depends on how diligent she is on finding that answer which means diligence in reading praying coming to church and even fasting. Our president of the mission actually did a training on this a couple of months ago and during it he asked which of you have had an investigator who prayed about your message but didn't get an answer it was cool to see about every missionary raise his hand . He then said well from now on you are forbidden to promise people an answer from praying. That kinda shocked all of us. He said they will receive an answer according to there diligence then he showed us like a lot of scriptures that teaches just that so I was like dude dope. Now looking back on my personal experience that is so true . I remember in the mission wanting a testimony of the book of mormon like a witness and not just a belief like I had before. I read the book of mormon maybe once before my mission and ya in the mission I was just reading reading praying fasting and getting frustrated because I wasn't receiving an answer but I read it again and again and now I have read it like 4 or 5 times and I have a testimony divine of the spirit that it was true it didn't come to me my first freaking night but after months yes I said months of reading praying and fasting honestly looking for a divine witness . I got it now and I am doing it again - By the way I had an interview with the president this week like we all did and it was DOPE I loved it ok basically his prayer was dope which was weird by the way that he started the prayer usually I start and he finishes. so ya but it was dope like he was saying bless Elder Atwood with all the spiritual gifts needed to preach they gospel and a bunch of other dope stuff but ya for the most part we talked about baptismal potential for December how many I'm going to baptize and how many the sisters in my district are going to baptize he was like cool ok so Elder here's the thing I need you and your district to be the example here in the zone cuz your one of the few missionaries that constantly baptizes so ya anyway I asked him first how I could get a stronger testimony of Joseph Smith and to teach with more power and authority and he told me that I need to memorize scriptures ( he knows I've read the book of mormon a lot) so ya and then he was like telling me how the spirit will reveal to us what we need to say but only if we give it something to remember and ya he told me how he can quote thousands of scriptures now from the top of his head and I'm just sitting there like man I wanna be like this dude hes cool. So ya then I asked him the main question if I could extend my mission a year and ya he told me no that the mission only lets us extend it 30 days so ya i was like nooooooooooooooo like you sure and he said ya sorry but then he was like but I am happy to see that you have those desires that means your heart is in the right place so ya. and then he said BUT I PROFECY THAT YOU WILL SERVE ANOTHER MISSION he told me that his mission president told him the same thing so ya I'm stoked but I want to serve while I'm still young so I won't be doing family history when I am old with my bones all weird . I am not giving up on another mission I am currently working on my letter to the first presidency to extend my mission or to put in my papers again . I think they can give me a no saying no you have to go home and get married (president talked about that as well) and I will explain like look guys I am 19 I will be 20 I don't really care about getting married right now so if I go home I can go study and goof off for three years or I can go on another mission . The sons of Mosiah served for 14 years I think I deserve a good 3 or 5 years just saying I'd like to baptize thousands as well and I got like 30 in the water already so like 30 times 5 is like 150 people so I would be happy with that I mean baptizing is dope I love it. Anyway by the way I think I would tell you that yes I have had a comp that I loved remeber Elder Rios we both write each other every single week the dudes awesome anyway I gotta go love y'all
