July 30, 2012

Hello everybody,

 

Another week has just flown by, we had some great news today from President Carlos, we found out that the Cauayan Mission is leading in the area, which includes the whole Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. but we aren't letting it go to our heads. 

 

It sounds like you are all doing well, I wish you would send me a picture of Isaac in his vader costume. 

 

That's cool that the Olympics have started, I love the Olympics. You will have to keep me posted on anything amazing.

 

That's nuts that you already have Martha's release date time has just flown by and continues to do so.

 

This week has been a great one! We have this investigator named Joseph that is awesome, he has a testimony of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith and the Restoration. He wants to be baptized! We are working that out, I am so grateful to see these changes in people and seeing them taste the Gospel for the first time. I love missionary life. I love all of you.

 

I know that this work is true, I know that through Joseph Smith, Jesus Christ restored his everlasting gospel to the earth so that we could return to him. I know the power of the Atonement, I have seen it work in me and in others, I know that through the Atonement we can be made clean. I just remembered one of my favorite quotes, it goes "Mine is the strength of 10 because my heart is pure" to be pure is to be clean, and through that there is strength given to us that we may overcome any trial we are dropped into. 

 

I love all of you and hope you are all doing well.

Love,

Elder Proctor

July 23, 2012

Hello all, 

This week was great! We had our Zone conference with Elder Teh.  It was great. We learned a lot from him and his wife on how to become better missionaries.

 

And after the conference Brother Pete cooked some amazing mashed potatoes and chicken. It was wonderful. After we ate we sang a thank you song to him and it made that old sea dog start to tear up. The guy loves the missionaries. He is so great.

 

Also this week, all of the elders in my district went to one ward and we taught the ward about effective teaching and then we went out and visited less active families. This one guy that my companion and I visited was a really cool experience.  We showed up at the door and he came out and was mad at us, telling us that he didn't have time for us and that he didn't have time for church. 

 

We just told him that we would like to share a verse from the Book of Mormon with him and he calmed down a bit and let us in, we shared 1Nephi 1:1 with him, and said that because of Nephis "goodly parents" he was taught to live righteously and did so. Then he opened up to us and told us about how he has these 2 grand kids whose mom had passed away and dad had left them.  He takes care of them and is doing everything he can for them, he told us the only thing he wants is for them to be brought up in a good home, and he said that his home would be better if they went to church more. It was great, the power of the Book of Mormon is amazing. 

 

As we left he asked us if he could order the Liahona again, so that he could share the stories in there with his grand kids.

 

And that's the beauty of missionary work. Inviting others to come to Christ.

 

I love all of you and I hope you all have another great week

 

Love,

Elder Proctor

July 16, 2012

Hello All,

 

So this Wednesday we are starting our fast and going to sleep at 6pm because we have to wake up at 2am Thursday morning to head to Tuguegarao and be there by 7am for our meeting with Elder Teh! I am excited! And to top it off Brother Pete is cooking for us. He is that navy vet that used to be a cook on a ship.

 

And today we got some more exciting news, In August Elder Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve will be visiting our mission! How neat is that! 

 

Here is an update on that dad I have been telling you about.  Every time we go to visit him, he is either reading from the Book of Mormon, Teachings of George Albert Smith, or the Priesthood manual. I guess if he is going to come back to activity he is coming back running haha.

Its good to hear that you are all doing well, and that Grandmas surgery went well, tell her that I love her. I love all of you, I love this gospel.  I love missionary work, but I don't love typing haha. But don't worry I will have plenty of stories when/if I come home. 

 

Love,

 

Elder Proctor

7-1-12

I don't have a lot of time, I am still in the same area with the same companion and the other 2 Elders stayed as well. I love all of you so much, I will try to tell you more next week.