Preach My Gospel works!

What a week. Well, time is short today so let’s get started. I will start with planning: I owe all of the success and miracles we have seen this week to successful planning at night time. Planning has changed my mission. I have a better relationship with the ward members. We have been able to find members to attend every single lesson that we teach. We are supposed to do that to begin with, but who actually does what “Preach My Gospel” says to do the first time they read it, haha. So, yeah, “Preach My Gospel” teaches us to have a member at every lesson. And Heavenly Father has answered our prayers in helping us find good friends and make a strong relationship with members of the ward. It used to be that if we were meeting with an investigator for the first time, we would be afraid to find a member to attend the lesson in case of a possible "no show." But the Lord has answered our prayers and helped us make strong enough member friends to overcome any obstacle a now show might bring. Last week we had 8 pei ke's (discussions?) and we had 7 the week before. That is huge and that’s all I have to say the amount of lessons taught. We have been focusing on better quality lessons rather than focusing on the quantity of lessons we teach. We have seen a lot of blessing come from it. We've even been having members attend the lessons with less- actives, which doesn't count as a number, but it is EXTREMELY nice! We are finally learning how to do missionary work and find new investigators through the ward rather than relying on ourselves and the blessings have come through our desire, through prayer, to do the Lord’s work and not our own work.

These experiences are real. "It helps to turn on the lights when you are reading in darkness" It takes more effort, but it makes the process run so much smoother.

WE HAD AN AMAZING LESSON THIS WEEK WITH SISTER YAN. She is 52, a taxi driver and such a sweet, cute lady, but her Buddhist background has kept her from understanding the point of Christianity. However, teaching her the basic principles of the Restored Gospel, faith, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.

With an awesome member attending the lessons, helping us teach principles, and share experience, we were able to work Sister Yan to the point where she understood the one principle that we were trying to get across to her. "Through applying these principles, we allow Christ to suffer our burdens, including her relationship with her husband." Then we wrote the words, “JIAN ZHENG(testimony) on the board and we missionaries and the member showed her how our experiences with these principles has brought a testimony to us, of our Savior and that GOD LIVES! SHE UNDERSTOOD IT! It was so difficult, but she got it. Now she is willing to sacrifice everything to come to Church every Sunday and show her love to for the Savior Jesus Christ!

WOAH!!!! She's going to baptized and we hope her son, too, on the 21st of February! Teaching Sister Yan has taken Elder Daniels to his teaching LIMIT!!!!! Wow, he has learned a lot.
I love this work. Gotta go,love you, ELDER DANIELS