June 11-There can be miracles when you believe

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I've had a wonderful week here in Newport Beach and experienced many miracles!

On Tuesday we taught a single mother and her two young boys, they are starting to grasp more of what we are teaching them. One of the young boys is so excited to learn about the gospel, but the older one doesn't seem to care as much. We can tell that the mom really wants this for her boys. We also taught a lady who lives in "the gold mine", where most of our investigators are from, and she believes everything we teach her and wants to get baptized, but has no desire to come to church. so we're working on that. 

On Thursday we had zone conference which was awesome and got all of us super excited and inspired to work harder! They set a new goal of 1 baptism per companionship per transfer, and the whole mission is on fire now. 

We did a little bit of tracting looking for a new gold mine or "gold mine 2.0" and we didn't find it, but what we did find is a lot of people yelling at us to go away, which scared me a little at first. One man said he had read some "dangerous things" online about Mormons, we had good laugh about that after.

On Saturday we witnessed some hard core miracles. We went on splits, Elder Lichtenberg taught a man who lived in the gold mine, who totally loves everything we teach him, but also pretty much believes in all religion, so we're working on that. Elder Kema and Bouse went looking again for gold mine 2.0 and found it! they gave out a few copies of the Book of Mormon and set up an appointment for us to come back later that day. We all went back and taught a bomb restoration lesson. The mom and son we taught committed to reading the book of Mormon, and to getting baptized if they come to know it is true. The son loved the story about Joseph Smith and the first vision, and really loved learning about the Book of Mormon, he is solid.

It was a superb week. The mission is definitely getting pretty hard, but I love it. I found that as I strive to be more obedient, I see more miracles.

Elder Judd

 Alma 48:17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto aMoroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the bdevil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.





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