Great Things are Happening

Dear Family,

This past week we some great things happen in our area. Although we only found 1 new investigator, we have found some great potential families. We hope to follow through with them this week and start preparing them for baptism and eventually a trip to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. There is still much work to do, but I feel that we will see a lot of improvement soon.

  After many months of trying to get some support on creating a ward mission plan, we finally have our ward mission leader on board. We had a great coordination meeting and had an inspired brainstorming session. Hopefully the ward council as a whole will be supportive. The missionary work here in Scotch Plains would greatly benefit from a ward mission plan that is implemented. I see great things for the future.

  One miracle that we have seen lately is a family that moved in from Utah into our ward. None of them are members, but they are very involved in the church. We taught the father of the family and the rest of his family will be moving here in about a week. We were also able to teach B. again and should be able to meet with her regularly again. She was the one who got baptized but then her family told her they would disown her if she joined the church. They are still not supportive, but at least we can meet with her.

It's the beginning of the month which means we have to set goals and plan out zone meeting. We never have the time we need to prepare as much as we would like, but that's just life I guess. The Mission President usually creates a training schedule each month, which is a basic outline of the things we need to train our zone on, but this month we don't have one. That will require us to take even more time planning it out. It's all good though, we have some great ideas already. Things are going really well. I love my companion, I love my new mission president, life is good. That really stinks that school is already starting back up again. I swear you just told me that school got out. time flies... Love ya all!

Love,
Elder Tilley