Thank you so much for writing me. I really enjoyed reading your email. I have had a great week and I am glad to hear yours was good too. Thanks for your support and your love for me. That scripture is so true, I strive to teach with simplicity to all so they can understand how much the Savior loves them. That is so good to hear that Brandon is close to leaving on his mission, he is going to love it. Tell him to not take the MTC for granted it is so much fun. I tried to enjoy it as much as I could. My favorite part was that every meal was made for you and now I miss that, haha. I have developed some good cooking skills on my mission though. I was wondering if you talked to missionary mall about getting me some more socks because I have now six pairs with holes in the heel. I am down to about seven pairs left. I double up on the socks so I can keep my feet warm. If they are able to send me some pairs out here ask them for about five or six and that should cover me until the end of the mission. I also have good news about my harmonica, I asked President Preston what he thought of it and he said it would be ok as long as it is not distracting. I can find some good use for that, Ill let you know haw it goes. Well here is my week for you...
Once again another week gone by, similar schedule to what happened last week except this week I got to go on an exchange with Elder Hanks. I really enjoyed our exchange and I got to know him a lot better. I have said it before that it is important to have a strong relationship with your district leader. I think Elder Hanks has done a great job on that for his own part. He has really taken the time to get to know each of the missionaries with in the district. I learned so much from him and he is a fantastic missionary.
One of the major efforts this week was to contact the less active members from the lost sheep file. We managed to get a member with us on Friday and take us out to the far parts of the area to contact those on the list. We made great progression and I know the information gathered will be very useful for the ward and for the stake. There were two of the lost sheep file who welcomed us warmly and have encouraged us to visit them again. We hope to see great things come about from meeting with these members.
Kelly and Julie have been in strong contact with us but we have yet managed to teach them this week due to Kelly catching the flu and also schedule changes at the last minute for them. However, they have told us that they still want us to come visit them and continue to teach them so we will do our best to help them have faith in Christ. As far as we know, Kelly has been reading from the Book of Mormon but Julie has not. There is still a lot of potential for them.
Saturday night, Elder Taotua and I prayed for two nonmembers either potential investigators, investigators, or formal investigators, to come to church on Sunday. Our prayer was answered when we noticed that Kaitlin and Sophie were at church and also Ben who is the brother of a recent convert named Aimee and also part of a part member family. He has Ben taught before by missionaries who once were in this area but that shows a good sign and that he is beginning to show trust in us. We called him Saturday night and invited him and he showed up at church so we have a lot of trust between each other. We are hoping the best for him and we will do what we can to help him come unto Christ.
It has been a great week and I am so excited for specialized trainings tomorrow.
Love Elder Corbin
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