When We Serve How Christ Served...

Hello Everybody! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! It's always so cool to see how the holidays really bring everyone together. It's also really cool to think that the missionaries will be starting the Light the World initiative! It's such a great way to talk with people and to also help those that are around us. I know that when we serve how Christ served, we will see the blessings of heaven more evident in our own lives.

Everything has been going pretty well with our investigators. It was a little tricky trying to get in with them, due to the holiday season.  While I was with an assistant to the president for the day, Elder Worsham was able to see Karen and she is progressing awesomely! She is loving the Book of Mormon and has a great desire to be baptized! It's so cool! We're hoping with the holiday season cooling off and with Christmas on the horizon, we will be able to reach more people and hopefully get in with more of the investigators that we are working with. Thank you everyone for your love and support.  I hope you enjoy this upcoming Christmas season! Make it a great week!

This is the Eberle Family! 

They had us over for Thanksgiving!  It was a lot of fun!

Think About The Things You Are Grateful For!

This week was a fun week! First off, the biggest change that happened was on Wednesday when Elder Apgood was emergency transferred to Baltimore City. A missionary was sick and needed to go home, so they moved Elder Apgood from our companionship, over there. Elder Worsham and I were super sad. 

We had a lot of really cool experiences with our investigators and have still been finding more people! Karen Carr is doing really well and has read like more than half of the Book of Mormon, since we met her! She had a lot of really good questions, as well! It's been awesome seeing her progress in the Gospel!!! We also taught this really cool guy from Ghana yesterday. His name is Sinjoh and he had a lot of questions about religion that we were able to answer. The cool part is that as we answered his questions, he was visibly more and more excited! It was so cool! Probably the weirdest part of the week was that a family invited us over to dinner yesterday and the wife is from Russia! So, we had a cultural meal! It was called Pelmeni.  It was different, but pretty good!

It's been amazing to see the Lord's hand in our area. He truly leads us to those who are prepared to receive the gospel message! I hope you can take the time this week to think about the things that you are grateful for. I know that I'm grateful for a family who has sacrificed for me to come out here and to serve the Lord. I hope you have a good turkey week!!!

A cool lake that I saw while I was on exchanges.

When we found out that Elder Apgood was leaving!

Pictures of my apartment.

*Mom Note: I told Elder Ainsworth that he needed to clean his apartment!

He wrote back and said they had cleaned it, it was just messy since Elder Apgood was packing. 

I can't seem to get rid of that mom instinct to tell him to pick up after himself. LOL!

The "bro" picture that my mom requested. 

Last Floor On The Last Door

Hello Everyone! This week has been a super cold week! With the humidity and wind chill, it definitely feels like winter over here!

This whole week has just flown by, but here are some highlights of the week.  We had Zone Conference! We didn't meet up with another Zone for this one, so it was just our Zone with the Mission President and his assistants. There was a big emphasis on the sacrament and why it's so important to be partaking of this ordinance every week, as well as getting our investigators to church.

We had a super cool miracle this week, as well! So, a few days ago, we were trying to visit a former investigator that other missionaries had taught awhile back. We had their apartment building address, but not their apartment number.  We started knocking on every door to try and find this person and ended up getting to the last floor on the last door. (Nobody answered any of the doors, by the way). Right as we were about to knock on the final door, we heard someone coming up the steps and it turned out to be them! It was so cool to see how the Lord was able to put us in this person's path. The crazy part about it is that they moved a few months earlier and were there just visiting a friend! I know that even though everything may not work out how we want it too, it works out in the Lord’s way. I hope you are staying warm and have a good week!

A service project we ended up doing in the middle of the week.

A member had a fire truck that they wanted us to put together

for her son's birthday.  It was a beast and took forever to finish!  But, it was fun!

The missionaries serving in the Ellicott City Ward!

"You Are True Men Of God!"

Hello Everyone! This week was a crazy week! Being a Zone Leader now, I have a lot more meetings that I have to go too. One them is a Missionary Leadership Council. This is a meeting where all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders get together with our Mission President and his wife to go over concerns and needs for the mission. It was awesome! I loved it! It's so neat see all the care that goes into running the mission! I also saw an old companion, as well.

This week was another miracle filled week! We got a referral from the missionaries serving in Baltimore City for this guy, John Moore. We stopped by to see him this week and he was super interested! He loved the lesson and even said, "You are true men of God!" It was so cool! It's been really neat to see all of the prepared people that are being put in our path. I have really been able to see the love that Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father have for us. We may fall short, but His loving arm is always outstretched towards us, ready for when we make even the slightest change towards Him. I know the power of real repentance and the difference it makes in the lives of those that use it. I hope you have a great week!

Our Halloween Party!

The treats we had!

Me with Elder Harvey!

All of us as a group!