8/26/13

I'll get straight to the missionary stuff that's been happening this week.  I have learned a lot from Elder Braithwaite and Elder Felt!  How to begin teaching is one thing that has definitely been emphasized with them and I've been working on.  We have only been in King George two days last week, but we were able to have success!  We found some potentials on the last door in this neighborhood we were tracting the last hour of the day.  They let us in and were super open to hearing what we have to share!  We scheduled an appointment for today, because it was late and we didn't have much time.  Then on Sunday, yesterday we were able to go on splits, it was Elder Felt and myself.  Elder Felt said to me when we started, "There's someone on this street that the Lord has prepared for us.  Now it's our job to find them and trust and rely on the spirit and have the faith we need."  Well, we did that and we were able to street contact one guy that we kept coming into contact with and he knew who we were and has a Book of Mormon copy! He's open to us stopping by and seems interested in what we have to say.  (You can tell when they have no interest.)  We also tracted into one family who let us in and it was interesting.  We were there for about an hour and a half.  They have a hard time when it comes to the Restoration of the Gospel and the Book of Mormon.  They also aren't too big into denominations.  We did share our testimonies of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smith.  We continued to invite them to pray and read the Book of Mormon, but they were content with where they were at.  We walked away however knowing that, that was just a step in preparing them to receive the fullness of the Gospel.  Their son also was super interested in what we had to say, so Elder Braithwaite and Felt will be making contact with them again later on.

I get my new companion this week as you said Dad.  I could be training.  There will be 144 trainers this next transfer, because we had 37 new missionaries last transfer and 35 this coming transfer.  It's something like that.  I'm excited and nervous if I do train because I'm still learning the area and my last companion was easy to get along with, but he was getting a little trunky.  So, I will be learning the area still when this new companion of mine gets here.  Well, today we will be playing BANG! with some other Elders in our Zone and I'm so excited!  I will keep you posted on this next week too!!!  Miracles are happening everyday! 

I wish Luke would email me about Choir Retreat too!  How are Kate and Ellie doing? 

Oh, the funniest thing about being with the Zone Leaders is observing how they get along and work as companions and it is HILARIOUS to watch sometimes as we plan XD.  The weather has been miserably hot!  I hate humidity, I miss the west side and the mountains!!!  Trees are good, but that's all I see!  I like trees AND mountains!  Btw, where does our last name come from?  I will have to send you a postcard sometime I guess, I don't know what to look for.  Like a homemade one?  (Ha, Ha)

Tell Shaini (Candland) congratulations for me!  I had no idea she was going on a mission, as well as Dayna! Tell them both congrats!  Thanks for the quote Dad, I love that movie!  My goals for this week, I guess every week is to memorize a quote so I could include that!  Grandma Mounts sends me monthly quotes in her letters and I love them, they're fantastic!  I'm working on memorizing them!  Don't forget to send me those email addresses I asked for please and thank you!  Also Kate and her pig Bacon!

Love all of you guys!

Elder Austin Mounts