BEST.WEEK.EVER!!

February 10, 2014

This week was pretty grand! We now have 3 new investigators that are
in a family. They have met with missionaries before and they know
quite a lot which is great!  The mom works on Sundays but she is
trying her hardest to get Sundays off to come to church. I think she
is pretty cool! Then her husband is pretty chill. But he just got out
of brain surgery and he is still recovering from that. Her son is is
15 years old and LOVES basketball. We invited him and his cousin to
play with us this Saturday! I am pretty excited for that! :) we've
shared a few messages with them about eternal families and prophets
and they still are super interested again. Whenever we go over, they
ask to have prayer because we bring in a feeling that they absolutely
love which is pretty awesome!!
Yesterday was definitely the most spiritual day I have ever had. One
reason because the lessons were great. In gospel principles, we talked
about fall of Adam and Eve and what their perspective was before and
after they partook of the fruit. Then the other reason was Brian
Topper. That was definitely the most spiritual part of the day. 2
weeks ago, we asked him who he would like to baptize and confirm him.
He asked us how many baptisms we both had and we told him how many. My
companion had 5 and I had 0 BUT I told him he would be my first. Then
he said to me "well then I will let you baptize me". The program was
great!! Before the baptism, a lady gave a talk on baptism and the
covenant that we make when we enter the waters of baptism and how we
renew those covenants each week at Sacrament. It was golden! Then I got the privilege of doing the ordinance. We did it twice because his hand came up.. (he really needed to be super clean so we had to do it again ;) ) after that, we heard a talk about the Holy Ghost by our ward mission leader who is an institute teacher up in DC. So his talk was really great! THEN Brian shared his testimony! And man, WAS IT POWERFUL. I choked a few times but the Spirit was teaching me all sorts of things during that. It was GREAT!!

• Funniest thing your companion did-- Well today at our zone activity we played Football and Ultimate Frisbee and the grass was super wet... My companion dove for the frisbee and he slid into some dog dung... it was very FUNNY!! xD
• Funniest thing you did- something that made you laugh-- We were checking on some less actives in our area and... well... i forgot their names. Very embarrassing but funny haha
• Greatest characteristic about your mission president- be detailed-- I like how calm and powerful he is when he is talking. He knows what he is doing and I love it!!
• Favorite meal for the week--Favorite meal for the week has to be my hashbrowns for lunch a few days ago haha I LOVE HASH!! :)

I Love and miss you all so very much! 

Elder JT Ekberg

PS: Again, I love getting letters from anyone so please feel free to write!! :)

Pss: I will send pictures of the baptism soon i forgot my camera this week :/

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Such A Great Week!!

February 3, 2014

What is up my friends?! :)

This week was pretty cool. We picked up 2 new investigators Thursday!
Their names are Stefanie and Malique. Malique is 15 and plays
basketball I think. Steffanie has 3 children and loves to visit but is
also interested in the lessons again. They seem like a pretty cool
family for just moving into the area!

Friday we had 2 great things happen. 1 was with the whole mission :)
Friday was zone conference. There were some great training's and
thoughts given to us from the President And Sister Cooke, and a few of
the senior couples in our mission giving us tips on how to maintain
and clean our apartments.

After those thoughts, we had lunch and sung for the people who fed us
lunch. The people who did feed us were from our ward! And then the
best part came.......
With The Lord hastening his work, he decided to give our whole mission
devices that we can use that will improve the work and REALLY hasten
His work! Things are changing dramatically here and it is pretty cool!
The only bad part (which is also a good part too) is that we have to
take our area book, and digitize it. So far, it's going pretty good
doing that it just takes a long time to do it!

Then the other great thing that happened was our lessons with brother
topper Friday and Sunday. He is ready! He believes everything and
loves telling us how everything makes sense now to him Sunday when we
had our last lesson, we asked him about his baptismal service and who
he wants to speak, do the ordinance, etc. and he chose me to baptize
him! How cool is that!? I think it is AWESOME!!!

Most spiritual experience this week: definitely the lesson with Bro.
Topper! It's great to see that he understands everything and is really
willing to keep the commandments, to be baptized and come unto Christ.
He was truly prepared by Heavenly Father!

My favorite scripture:  Moroni 10:33 And again, if ye by the grace of
God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye
sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the
blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the
remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.

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I hope you all have a great week this week and remember to have the
spirit with you always! It is the most amazing thing you can have in
your life because it will help guide you in your life.

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~Elder Ekberg~