Week 68! It's about Molmon

Hello!

This was one of the most amazing weeks I have seen here in Nagaoka, and all over the Zone there we huge miracles!  I couldn't believe all of the things we kept hearing in the calls every night, and then what happened yesterday at church really just finished it off to be one of the best weeks this Zone has ever seen.  

Coming off a great Zone Meeting last week, we trained a lot about expectations, finding, setting expectations with our investigators, and baptism.  From that we set some really amazing goals for church attendance, but not only for investigators but in order to focus on the whole work of salvation, we want to focus on bringing investigators, recent converts, and less actives, so we put them in the goal!  Then, we followed up really closely with the missionaries every day on who was coming to church, and who they had planned on coming, and we saw a huge miracle here.  Between the 3 areas up here and 16 missionaries, we had 23 investigators attend church this week!  We also had 4 Recent Converts attend the meeting, and 4 Less actives! There was a total of 31 people who came to church in the Zone who are either new members, or don't usually come to church!  It was an amazing miracle this week, and it was just so great to see and hear about so many people coming to church!  Here in Nagaoka we also had a pretty amazing miracle!  We usually have maybe 32 people attend sacrament on a good Sunday, but this last week we had 45 people in sacrament, with 2 Less actives, 2 recent converts, and 11 Investigators! It was remarkable to see that as we worked our hardest to align ourselves with God, and with a goal that he had in mind for us, that we were able to do it. We are even more excited because out of the 7 investigators who came from our companionship, 2 of them have baptismal dates, and the others will have them this next week!  Really excited to see what is going to happen this next transfer, we are hoping to have a baptism every single week!  The sisters have one planned for next week, and we have a date now for the 12th so we will see!  That would be so good for the branch and the members to be able to really catch the missionary spirit and have a little more desire to have their friends taught!  

Another big thing that happened this week was that we had our transfer calls come in!  They were actually this morning, but I was really nervous because I really wanted to stay!  I guess God does listen to our prayers, because it looks like I will be here one more transfer in Nagaoka which I am so excited for!  Elder Wheatley and I are really really excited to have the chance to work another transfer here together again.  We really feel like we have been able to get into a really good rhythm together and we have really started seeing some amazing things.  We feel like we will be able to go right into this next transfer not really missing a beat, and be able to continue working with this branch out here to see amazing things happen!  I am also super grateful for the chance I have to work with Elder Wheatley.  I really feel like I have been able to learn so much from him, and have really been able to grow a lot just by being his companion!  We get along great, and I feel really lucky to have him as a companion!

This week I think one thing that I learned was to more fully rely on and trust in the Savior.  This week was really one of the best weeks that we have ever had, but we had to work our butts off to see it all happen.  There were times where I wasn't sure if everything was going to work out how we had hoped and planned it would, but everything this week really did just seem to come right together and work!  I realized that God does listen to our prayers, and that he wants to bless us we just have to ask him, and then be patient and have the faith that he will help us.  I saw that this week!  There were things that weren't in our control, but it was able to happen because the Lord heard our prayer and helped us.  What a blessing to have Him on our side always! I love you all so much! Thank you for all that you do for me!  Have an amazing week this week and I will talk to you soon!!

Love,

Logan

 "We had a lot of people come to church today, and after we had lunch!

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