Moments from a Missionary

​ Look who was at Church here in WSS this past week, Governor Herbert, he was at a Governors meeting at The Greenbriar, (all 50 Governors were here) but Governor Herbert took some time to talk to us and shared some bits of his mission which guess what he served in  West Virginia for part  of his mission too!  We also introduced him to H. G. and her oldest Son A. and he shared a short testimony with her it was so neat...all the things I never thought I would do on my mission.

First of all thank you for you letters, I have really enjoyed and appreciated hearing  all the news from home. I love each of you    ​ First off, yay I beat the 190 mark! this down from 203ish in the past 6 weeks...loving the results...Goal is 172   Back to last week, this Caving Adventure had great results with the investigators who came, First off not only did Al. (Sister G.'s oldest son, far left) come to the Mutual activity on Wednesday, and Basketball  on Saturday  but he also came to church  on Sunday  with his mom! Sister G. explained to us how happy she was and what a big deal it was for him to come, it was the first time he had been to any church in over a year. The Glk Girls (investigators, far right) have been more engaged in lessons and have had such great questions since, along with their parents K.B. (member, black shirt) came to our district meeting this past week We were also able to get several great photos

With A.B. We had a zone meeting at the institute building at Southern Virginia University, in Buena Visa VA, on our way out of town we took a district photo in front of the "Whole Armour of God" statue on the campus (this is the LDS university in the mission)  ​Another fun thing is during the summer there are several EFY trips held on the campus here, so as we went walking through, by some 200+ LDS youth we felt a bit like Rock-Stars as they called out "I'm Mormon" "hello Elders" and just having everyone stop and look and wave to us...it was surreal and very welcome...how grateful I am to be a missionary! So this week we had a very full house at church because of all the New Medical Student families moving into the ward over the past week, (we had 4 families move out and 7 new families move in) we had been praying for a good member freindshipper's for the B. family and sure en

The Alderson 4th of July Celebration was grand, we found 3 new families to teach, and a Less-Active by the name of H.D, she had moved into Alderson from Covington's area in March, Her records were never moved so we quickly corrected that and her records should be in WSS shortly, "T" is the top new investigator from the Alderson 4th of July, it amazes me how the lord for some reason often requires us to wait till the last second to see the miracle, as the Crowds at the Alderson 4th of July field were getting jammed into the football field, and we are just about ready to pack up, T. comes and is immediately interested in playing the game and by the end after a 30 minute conversation, said "you know I feel like I have been drifting from my church right now and was meant to talk to you guys today"...he excitedly exchanged contact information and set-up and appointment for the next day (Sunday) which he kept and we taught him the plan of salvation, which he just sa