Priesthood Restoration Site

Sorry guys it is going to be a little short this week. Our p-day is going to be really short today. We are going to the priesthood restoration site on Wednesday and that is going to be all day long. So because of that they cut our p-day in half today. It's has been really great week thou. It was really busy week. We spent majority of our week doing finding and tracting but we were able to have fair amount of lesson with our less active members.

 On Thursday we had really great lesson with one of the recent convert. The spirit was so strong in the lesson and she kept crying. She is going to rough time as well with somethings. We taught her about temples because we are trying to get her to go to the temple. It was really good lesson, we talked to her more about preparing for the temple. She loved talking about baptisms for the dead because she had some concerns on whether or not it was possible for her to do. She is on wheelchair and she thought it would be really hard for her to even find a ride there. She felt so much better when we told her all she have to do is to spiritually prepare and we will help her with all other things. 

 

I'm so happy for Jason, that is so great. Branden is going all the way to Kentucky? I bet Mesafint is going to be really happy to see him there. I'm surprised that he got permission to go met up with Branden. I don't think our mission president will allow anything like that. Yeah you are right, dad is really great person. We are so blessed to a parents like you two. I feel so much better every time I read your letters out here. It makes me to be motivated and work hard. Being out here is hard sometimes and I look up to you guys when those hard time comes.

This past week has been so much better for me and Elder Pollmann. We do get along super well and we have been teaching with unity. That first week was just hard because we didn't knew each other that well and I was just so stressed out. I felt like everything was on me. But now things are so much better since we got to know each other little better and Elder Pollmann know more about the area now. He does help me with planing and teaching now. 

Oh poor Luke, I hope he gets better soon! That is good all other kids are doing well and appreciating the gospel. So did Damitu made it to state at all?

We were able to ran to some good people while we were doing tracking. They seemed to be interested in hearing more when we quickly testified to them. So we were able to get some return appointments. So I'm really excited for this week to go out and work hard. I wish I could write more but don't have too much time. I hope you all will have a very blessed week. 

Love, 

Elder Mubarek 

Mini Miracle

Dear Family, 

 

 

I hope you all are doing great. I had another great week, there is lot that happened. I got a new companion on Tuesday. His name is elder Pollmann and he is from southern Utah in small town called Minersville. He has been out for 14 months now. He is great and we get along well. 

This week has been little slow as far as teaching goes. Most of our appointments got cancelled on us. We did a lot of finding and tracting. We were able to get some return appointments out of that. On Thursday we found this older lady in a wheelchair. She doesn't have both of her legs. She was trying to sweep her driveway when we found her. We stopped and offered her help and she allowed us to help. After we got done we asked her if it's okay to share a message with her and she allowed us. We taught her little bit about the plan of salvation on her front porch. We weren't able to teach her the whole thing because her grandson got home from school. She seems a little interested when we talked about the purpose of life, and how things happens for a reason. She is really sweet lady and willing to have us back.

We were also able to see this mini miracle on Friday. Most of our appointments got cancelled on us on Friday and then we decided to do tracting. As we knocked on doors nobody really seemed interested but we accidentally met this lady named Jay. We took her parking spot and she came home as we were getting out of the car to see one of our potential. She stopped her car on the road and told us how we took her parking spot. We then slowly got talking to her and she was very nice. She believes in having a Christian lifestyle but doesn't believe too much in the bible. We told her how we believe the bible to be a word of God as far as it is translated correctly and then testified to hear about the book of Mormon. We had her read intro and she asked for a copy. At the end we asked if we can meet with her to talk to her more about the BOM. She said in order to meet it would have to be somewhere other than her home because her father is atheist. She seemed pretty solid and we are excited to meet with her some time. 

We had stake conference yesterday and it was really amazing. Our mission president and his wife came and gave a talk. They gave really great talk on missionary work and temples. They talked about how our ultimate goal as a missionaries is to get the people to the temple. The other speakers also talked a lot about keeping the sabbath day holy. It was really great stake conference. 

I know that we will be blessed as we keep the sabbath day holy.

 

 Jessica Rudderforth texted us and told me how happy you were and how that made your day. Jessica was really happy too that you emailed her back and thanked her. They are really great family and love the missionaries. Jessica actually used to live in Rexburg. She grew up in Idaho False and went to college in BYU-I. And I will thank them again for you. (They took and sent the picture above.)

That is awesome how Luke is having a new teethes. Why is he being grumpy? Is that because it hurts when the baby's get a new teeth? Wow all the sports season is almost over? That went by so fast. Sounds like you and Damitu had really fun time at Lindsey Sterling's concert. She has a Mormon message video and I watched that with elder Mackay. She is really great at playing the violin and dancing at the same time.

The weather is getting really cold here. This morning it was 28 degrees. It is getting dark here super early too. That kind of makes missionary work hard. People gets mad when we knock on their door at 7:00 because it's dark and seems like it's in the middle of night. Taking over the area is kind of hard for me too. It's a lot of responsibilities, my new companion just expect me to make all the decisions. This past week was probably the hardest week for me, it was really stressful. But it's not too bad. Thank you so much for everything and have a great week.

 

Love Mubarek!

I've been out over 3 months

I hope you all are doing great. This week has been crazy busy. We did a lot of tracting and finding and we were able to see some miracles. We found about six potential investigators and we got two return appointments out of that. They seems like they were pretty interested when we talked to them. 

We also got one new investigator who committed to be baptized in our first lesson. Her name is Jasmine and we had an awesome lesson with Her. We couldn't get any male member out to the lesson with us because they all were really busy with work. So we end up taking one of our investigator to the lesson and it still worked great. We taught her the restoration and she was so accepting to our message. We really were able to relate a lot of the information to herself and she totally agreed and thought that it made sense about the Restoration of the gospel. She committed to read and pray to know the Book of Mormon is true. It was really awesome lesson and she is well prepared. 

We also had really good lesson with the Offei-ansah family. In the lesson we really focused on them and tried to answer their questions about baptism. At the end we committed them to pray about it if this baptism is a right path for them. It might take them a while but I know that they will accept this gospel. They are really great people. 

 

On Thursday we had a zone training and it was really great. Our zone leaders taught us how to teach quick 3 to 4 minutes lesson using Book of Mormon. I learned a lot from that. One our zone leader elder Child is going home so we will be getting new zone leader tomorrow.

 

We got a transfer call on Friday. My companion Elder Mackay is leaving the area and I'm staying. Transfer is actually tomorrow so I won't know who my new companion is until tomorrow. I'm not to worried about it, I just hope that he is hard working and obedient missionary. Yes you are right living the gospel is as much us teaching the gospel. It hard to go out and teach the gospel if you don't have companionship unity. That is so great that you were able to help your companion. When you love your companion and serve them, things goes so much better between you and your companion.  

I got done with 12 week missionary training program today. So I'm a regular missionary now. It's crazy how fat the time flies by, I can't believe it's already been little over three months since I've been out on a mission.

 

Thanks for letting me know how everyone is doing. I love hearing about how things are going at home. I'm glad that Everett is doing good and liking school. That is sad Tofik lost his game to Highland. My zone leader went to highland and he was telling me how much he was mad at Madison because Madison won them and kept them from going to state couple years ago. He has been staying with us for about three days now because his companion went home little bit earlier before transfer. He was really happy and joyful when I told him how highland won Tofiks team. 

 

Sorry I don't have to much time right now. We are at Rudderforth and they are going to take a picture of us because Elder Mackay is leaving. Josh Rudderforth is like professional photographer. We are also going to do little shopping for groceries. 

I hope you will have a great week.

Love Elder Haws

"Why the Chuch?"

Hi everyone, 

 

I hope you all are doing great. It's been another great week here. It was really busy week. On Wednesday we had a zone conference In Cherry Hill New, Jersey. It was my first zone conference and it was so amazing. Our mission president taught us a lot about gathering of Israel and the role of the Book of Mormon. He encouraged us to use the Book of Mormon in every single lesson. When it comes to conversion, the Book of Mormon should play a really big role. Every answer, to every questions that investigators have, can be found in the Book of Mormon. It is amazing how much impact the Book of Mormon has in conversion.

We got a new ward mission leader this past week. Our old ward mission leader was really busy guy. Because he is so busy that we weren't able work with him at all. Not being able to work with ward mission leader makes missionary work so much harder. Ward mission leader is like a bridge between the members and full time missionaries. It is hard to work with the members without the ward mission leader. I'm so excited to work with our new ward mission leader. He is really great guy. We already had coordination meeting with him and from now on we have weekly coordination meeting with him.

It was slow week with investigators, most of our lessons was with less active members. We are trying hard to get those less active members back to church but it's not really working so well. They do really feel the spirit when we go over and have a lesson with them but its just hard for them to show up to the church. Some of them work on Sundays and that even makes it harder. We were able to have another lesson with the Offei-ansha's family. It went really good but they had a lot of questions concerning baptism. They think that every church has authority to baptize.

General conference was great, I really enjoyed it. I really liked  D. Todd Christoferson's talk called "Why the Chuch?" There are a lots of people out here who are spiritual but don't feel like coming to church. Elder Christoferson really pointed out great things about the importance of coming to church. I am so grateful to have prophet and apostles here on earth today. I know that we can get close to Heavenly Father if we followed their teachings. 

Love you all and hope you will have an amazing week.

Mubarek Haws