Email received August 18, 2014

Hello everyone!

We had a good week this week! Every day we got our goal of inviting at least 25 people! It was hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be. The Lord definitely helped us and provided for us. Well, we have gotten a few potentials recently from our finding. Hopefully we will be able to meet with them. We have an appointment tomorrow with a baptist pastor. haha. Hope this goes well and he doesn't want to just bash. We will see :) haha. We also got a referral from a member in the ward who is preparing for her mission in November. We should be teaching her friend either this week or next! :)

We got a new investigator this week. His name is Greg. He was found by some other Elders and they realized that he actually lives in our area. So we are working on how to pass him off. We did attend a lesson with him and the other elders this past week. Greg is awesome. He has had a really rough life and wants to change. He said that he thinks we might have something that can help him with that. He basically wants to be happy, which is what our message is all about!

Our mission president, President Mortensen, has introduced to us something called "Master Teaching". Here's kind of a rundown of what it is. Basically, it's teaching in a way that the Savior would teach. So far on my mission all we have done is basically state doctrine to people. We just spew out information. Master Teaching is the belief that the truth lies within the person being taught. So we ask inspired questions for them to teach themselves of truth. It's hard to explain and even harder to do! haha. But we'll get the hang of it. We've also been challenged to do this with members to help them in their missionary work. We ask them questions so that they can have the Spirit tell them what they can do to help invite their friends, and then we challenge them to do it. It's pretty cool. :)

Well that's pretty much it for this week. Oh! We sang "We'll Sing All Hail to Jesus Name" in sacrament meeting and it reminded me of Jacob's arrangement of it. One of my favorite songs! It also made me miss Committed a lot! :/ Here's a quote from yesterday's sacrament meeting that I really liked. "Hope is believing that God will do His part, while faith is doing our part." I've always had a hard time distinguishing what the difference between hope and faith is, but that sums it up pretty well. :)

Have a great week! Love you all!

-Elder Steed