Hello Once Again

Hello everybody!

This week was pretty good. Not too much has been going on, the weather is typically pretty awesome but this week was pretty rainy.

We had zone conference and it was awesome. It is always great when a bunch of missionaries get together. We talked a lot about how the Book of Mormon is an excellent tool in teaching the Gospel and that we are commanded to do so.

Christina found a rented room that was available from one of the members in the Portuguese group that had it available. Her moving should be the last thing that she needs to do to be baptised.,she is planning on moving on the 31st, it should be great!

I'm sorry I don't have too much else to report.  I hope that you all have a wonderful week. I feel extremely blessed when I consider the effect that the Gospel has had on my life. It is true and it brings is joy! I hope that you all have a great rest of your week! Love you!

-Elder Connor Starr

Here are some photos!

I can't believe it is another weekly email

This week was great!

It started off a little slow with Monday, however Tuesday we had all of our appointments cancel and we went finding all day. We found 7 new people to teach just on Tuesday, and throughout the rest of the week we found 2 more.

To give you some perspective, the standard for new investigators is 2 per week.

2 of those investigators that we found on Tuesday came to church on Sunday. Their names are Mwanja and Moses, they are from the Congo and don't speak English very well. I was grateful for this when the teacher in Elder's quorum started teaching "deep" doctrine. They said they enjoyed it and we are coming back tonight to teach them more!

Yesterday was mother's day. I got to call home and see everybody. It was awesome to see that everybody was doing well.

This gospel blesses our families. It seals us together so that we can be together forever. I know that is is true and that living the principles that we are taught by Christ through his servants will bring us joy. This is the Lord's work and I feel very blessed to be a part of it.

That is all I have for this week.

Love you!

-Elder Connor Starr

Here is a cool bridge we saw that was built during the civil war.

Elder Morris crushing a coconut.

A canal at night in downtown Lowell

D&C 133:37-38

We had a really awesome week this week.

The hand of the Lord could clearly be seen as we found, taught and are now preparing to baptise

A few of his children here in this area.  We found 4 new pretty solid people to teach. Lisa accepted a baptismal date for June 23rd and we think that we found a home for Christina to move into so now she too can prepare to be baptised. We also got consistent appointments with a few of our more "sporadic" people that have a Hard time seeing us and we were able to teach a lesson to some Swahili speaking people that we found this week while walking downtown. We did so with the help of video chat and lots of context clues and body language. We are seeing them again this evening to teach them more!

We found people by walking around the streets of downtown Lowell on a hot day, as it has been really warm, and giving out free water and copies of the Book of Mormon. It was pretty effective and fun. I am really glad that winter is finally over. Other than that, not too much has happened. We are working with a lot of people and we are busy a lot of the time. I'm grateful that we have been blessed with so much great work to do and the opportunity to serve those in this area.

God wants to bless us and give us opportunities to serve. We only need to hear the promptings of the Holy Ghost and act upon them without delay. I know that to be true.

For those of you that are getting these for the first time, welcome!

Well I don't have much else to cover. I love you and hope you have a great week!

Until next time. 

-Elder Connor Starr

Here's some photos of Elder Morris and a burnt car...you'll have to forgive the photos this week.