Are we not all beggars?

I think the Dodgers must have won or something and headed to the Super Bowl!  It's been crazy here, and I can only imagine how much more crazy it'll get!  This week was a good one though!  We had a caramel apple bar on Monday for our zone activity and everyone loved it, thanks mom.

Tuesday we had our normal weekly planning, but later on, had a lesson with Vince and Megan in a member home, so it was awesome!  The Spirit is always so strong!  On Wednesday nothing particularly crazy or awesome happened.

Thursday we had district meeting, and it was a good one.  We talked about the doctrine of Christ and did some role plays on inviting people to baptism.  It was really good.  Afterwards, we had an exchange and I went with Elder Christensen, a new missionary, in his area.  Oh, and he's a Spanish missionary.  He's gotta learn by fire, right?  I certainly don't know Spanish.  We had a really good exchange and were able to teach a lot of people and find new investigators.  We invited someone to baptism too, and they accepted, it was awesome.

Elder Christensen and Elder Martin

Friday we were able to exchange back and do some good knocking and such.  We also had a mall booth set up and saw President and Sister Henrie there...they were having a date night and were in normal clothes...it was kind of like seeing your school teacher outside of school, you know?

Saturday was great!  We were able to do some proselyting in the morning and picked up a new investigator that way.  He also accepted a soft baptismal date, meaning he would, if he came to know it was true, but not a huge commitment yet.  No date in mind.  We also had two baptisms in the zone, so we had the chance to fill the font again.  At the end of the night, we decided to stop by a potential, we weren't able to contact with her, but we did talk with her mom and put her mom on a date for baptism.  It was awesome.  When you teach with the Spirit, and the Spirit testifies to these people, they cannot deny the truthfulness of these things and they see the need for baptism by proper authority.

Sunday was really good as well.  We had church and the speakers all did a really good job!  We did a little exchange after church- Elder Kerr and I hadn't had a lot of time to talk about the zone, being split-zone leaders, so we went together and did what we needed to, and also put in the work!  We found two more new investigators and put both of them on a date for baptism as well!  The Lord truly does prepare people and places others in our path.  Remember, President Spencer W. Kimball said, "God does hear us and watch over us, but it is usually through another person that he meets our needs."

I love this work!  I love the Gospel.  I invite all of you to look up "Words of the Prophet: Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Are we not all beggars?"  and read Mosiah chapter 4 with it.

I love you all!

Elder Martin

"For behold, are we not all beggars?  Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, 

for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, 

and for silver,  and for all the riches which we have of every kind?" 

 Mosiah 4:19