Dear family,
It has been another great week, especially with general conference! It was a perfect way to celebrate Easter, by hearing the prophets and apostles bearing their special witness of our Savior. There is always so much to learn from conference, so I'm excited to study all the talks!
It was the start of another transfer and a new month! The first part of the week we were in a trio because one of the elders in the zone finished his mission. So we had his companion with us until transfer meeting. It was a great chance for us to go on splits! On Tuesday afternoon I went with a priest in one of our wards and Elder Anderson went with the other missionary. The priest in the ward actually got his mission call. That would have been awesome to go on splits before my mission. If anyone is wanting to prepare for a mission, can't think of a better way to prepare than to go do missionary work with the missionaries. We went on splits later in the week and we both went with two returned missionaries in the singles ward. They both got home not too long ago so they were both super excited to come with us for a couple hours. It's great for us because we get to stop by twice as many people and we get to learn from them. That is one great benefit from serving where there are lots of members!
We currently have only one investigator, but we have lots of potentials. Our investigator is back in town. He has been out of town for work for almost a month strait. He came home this weekend and we have a lesson with him tonight. He will also be home for half of these next week so we are hoping that we can teach him a couple times before he leaves again. He is a great guy and wants to be baptized and have an eternal family. We are excited to teach him.
We taught a kid in high school this week on the street and he wants to meet with us, but his mom is not too fond of the church. We probably won't be able to teach him because of that, but we are hoping the priests in the ward will help fellowship him. We also have a potential that is the mom of a convert in our ward. She has come to church many times and loves to come. She has even come by herself and brought her grandkids when the parents couldn't come. We invited her to watch general conference and she was already planning on it. I have no idea why she hasn't been taught yet, but we are hoping to figure that out this week. We also had a couple potentials go to the Easter pageant this week. We are hoping to start teaching all of these potentials this week.
We helped pick citrus again this week for a food bank that provides food for children that don't have food on the weekends. I believe we are going to do that service project every week for a while. There is a new institute/church building on the ASU polytech campus which is in the Gilbert mission, and they had an open house this week. The church is only used for YSA wards so they asked all the missionaries in the YSA stake to help at the open house. We went to that and helped with that.
We have a zone meeting tomorrow and we are going to be talking about the role of the Holy Ghost and how important it is in missionary work. I noticed in general conference how many times they talked about that. In Preach My Gospel they have a quote from Pres. Benson, “The Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability” I'm not perfect at recognizing and responding to the Spirit, but I feel I have learned how to better follow the spirit. There have been a couple of talks about recognizing the spirit that have really helped me, but I don't remember what they are called. Maybe I'll have to tell you the names of them next week.
It's great to be a missionary! I'm grateful for every day that I have to be doing missionary work. Thank you for all of your prayers. I love you all so much!
Elder Joshua Gandy
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