Are you a Slacker or a Stud?

Happy March 28! Thank you So much for the birthday shout-outs and for the package! The best thing a missionary can receive is a letter full of love and support. I am so grateful to have a family that loves me. I haven't received the other package you sent, but I will eventually. This week has been a good one. I'm really getting excited for General Conference, and to be given council for TODAY. How incredible. I love our prophets who relay to us God's will. What a blessing to live in this dispensation! I feel like I haven't done a very good job of writing you lately, especially about the people we are teaching, so today I will tell you about some of the awesome people we have been sharing the gospel with. First I have to tell you about B. I can't remember how much I have told you about her, but she is one of if not the most prepared person I have ever taught. She is the girlfriend of a recent convert here named J. After the first time we taught her she told J that she wanted to be baptized. She wasn't able to come to church because she had to work every Sunday. Her boss had been a jerk in the past so she prayed for help and was able to get Sundays off. Yay! She loves the gospel and tells us all the time that she can't help but bring it up every time she talks to someone. She talks about it with her family and her friends all the time! She loves temples as well, and wants to go very badly. She loves the message or rather the truth that families can be forever and looks forward to being sealed in the temple. That's the difference between people who progress after baptism and those who don't. The desire to progress, goal setting, and then taking massive action. SOOO important. That's the difference between the slackers and the studs in the church. Anyway, she is set to be baptized on April 10! I am always amazed at how intricate God's plan for us is. A member in the Plainfield branch introduced the gospel to his girlfriend K who was baptized. She then was an example to her friend J who was baptized. He then introduced his girlfriend B who will be baptized in a couple of weeks. All in less than a year. How incredible is that?! God really does have a perfect plan. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it. Being a missionary is the best! T just finished his letter to the prophet, but still has a few interviews to go through before we can send the letters off. I wish you could meet him. He's one of the funniest little buggers I've ever met. You really learn to love the crazies as a missionary haha! For some reason they're usually the only ones that will listen. We also started teaching a lady named D who wants to be baptized. We set up a plan with her to stop smoking, so hopefully she will do it. She is very sincere in her desire to change and now we will find out how much real intent she has. She could be baptized in a few weeks if everything works out. Like I said, things are really good. I love being a missionary so very much! There are so many lives waiting to be blessed, so much to learn and gain, so much work to be done. I have learned so many valuable eternal lessons, and still have a lot of time to learn more. I have had experiences that will bless my life forever, and have gained eternal friends. I wouldn't trade being a missionary for the riches of the world, because the eternal rewards are too great. I don't know where I would be if I wasn't here. I know with out a doubt that this is where I am supposed to be, because there isn't a day that goes by that the spirit doesn't witness it to me. Full of love and happiness, Elder Tilley