Hello!

So this week has been good, we've been finding so many families! And they are so amazing! We taught Rita her first lesson, the Restoration the other day, and she taught half of it to us! She practically is a Mormon, without ever being Baptised or coming to Church! And she has an amazing family! There are 10 of them! We're still working on reaching all of them, but the potential is great! It's interesting how you can work so long without much result, then all of a sudden the work just explodes! We've had to give half of the people we're finding to the Sisters to teach, and we're still struggling to teach all our investigators as much as we'd like, and we're still getting more! I've also noticed how much our success relies on what's going on behind the scenes. When we as a companionship are not getting on, or the balance is wrong, or we're not as obedient as we could be, the work stalls, and nothing happens. But when we're striving our best to be what the Lord wants us to be, even if that means that we are tying one hand behind our back, the work just explodes! It's a real testimony to me of how important it is to the Lord that we do things His way, that it doesn't matter how good WE are, only that we do things the way the Lord wants them to be done. Our skills have no relation to the success of the work. Only that we do things in the true way, the way that the Lord wants us to do them, for the reasons for which the Lord wants us to do them, and the Lord then shovels success onto us. I'm sure this is true in everyday life too. Don't be tempted to do it your way, do it the Lord's way, even if it makes no sense, and I'm confident that the Lord will bless you so much that you won't be able to afford to do it any other way!
I love you all! Anziano Nelson.