"Self Evaluation" Nov 25th, 2012

Well this was thanksgiving huh? haha honestly i totally forgot when it was! people where asking me and i think i said the 24 of november or something i guess i was wrong, but im glad you guys got to have such a good time with bryce and cassidy! sounds great! well this week was a eventful one that tested me and elder terry. it was interesting cause we had lots of stuff going on and we tried finding some people in some areas in our area that we havent been to but that didnt turn out so well cause we just ended up walking so far and it really wasnt effecient, but it was a good learning experience. ok mom i dont want you to worry with what happened this week because as of right now i am 100% and nothings wrong but last tuesday i got bit by something and my ankle swelled up to the size of a baseball and i could barely walk! it was the weirdest thing ever, really painful as well but we still went out and worked and by the time we got home it was bigger and i wasnt feeling well so i called sister monahan and we got some antibiotics. they called the missionary doc and he said i had staphe infection, but we caught it early enough and so it was ok, i just had to stay inside one day cause i wasnt feeling good but like i said please dont worry haha im totally fine right now. so that was interesting. this week i also learned the importance of self evalution! its one of the most important things we can do because we constantly have to keep improving ourselves! this week things just werent falling into place and so we were constantly reveiwing what we could be doing better in our work and it was great what we learned! as far as our work went this week we had some great things happen with the La's. we met this one la named philip and he has been la only because he went abroud to work but came back and still wasnt going to church and said he complete lost his testimony. we taught him and that same sunday he came to church! we were pretty surprised with that! and he has a great support system so that helped. then we went back to follow up if he had read and prayed to know if the book of mormon was true and he said yes i know its true! wow! it was so great! he thanked us for the visits cause he said it really helped. this work is so rewarding! then we met this part member family and we told them we were going to stop by there house before church and we did, well it was obvious that they forgot so he said ill just catch up. well usually that means "yea im really not coming" but to our surprise he came! it was great! tender mercies of the Lord for sure! with our investigators where still working with them, some our so promising they just have no finish. meaning they get excited about the things we teach but dont act on it, like coming to church, thats the hardest part of our work here. our area in some aspects just seems dead so we have our work cut out for us but im pumped for the challenge heavenly father has given us! well family just like i say every week i am having the time of my life! dont worry just smile! Reach the Expection! mahal kita Elder Machen