Last Transfer!!!

6.27.16

It truly is crazy that I have now started my last transfer of my

mission! We learned this morning that I will be staying here and my

companion will still by elder Mohrmann:) I am very grateful for both

of these things. We are both excited to being staying together for 6

more weeks, because there is so much potential in this area. We are

both determined to keep running and working as hard as we can and we

know that we will continue to see miracles in Copperas Cove Texas.

        This week was one of the busiest/productive weeks of my mission! It

felt so good last night, to be able to look back at our week and know

that we worked hard. This Monday night we did a family home evening

with the Davis family. We had a lesson on the Liahona,and related it

to the need for divine guidance in our lives such as prophets and the

wonderful gift of the Holy Ghost. We then played that fun game where

you have the string with golf balls on the end of it and you have to

throw it over the pipe thing. It was a lot of fun, they are a really

good family. The next day we had an awesome lesson with a kid named

Cameron. He was the one that me and my zone leader found street

contacting. We brought a priest from our ward on exchange, because he

knew Cameron from school. My favorite part of the lesson is when we

were teaching the true nature of God, that he is literally our father

and has a body like ours. (perfected and glorified) You could see the

light turn on in his head, and you could tell that it made sense to

him. The beauty of teaching truth. We have another appointment with

him tomorrow night. It was also fun to have the priest with us, he is

excited to continue to teach Cameron with us.

        This week we also had a lot of time to hit the streets and talked

with everyone. I have such a strong testimony of talking with

everyone. We were able to meet some wonderful people. I'll share two

small experiences. The first one came right before we were going to

have dinner with a family. We got to their house 15 minutes early, so

we decided to go and talk to this guy we saw in his garage working

out. He told us that the doctor told him he was about to get diabetes,

and that he would have to start taking shoots. He asked the doctor to

give him one more chance. Well I can tell you he totally took that

chance! Every day he lifts his weights in his gym and runs up and down

this hill twice. He does his same little routine for 45 minutes! He

said he lost like 35 pounds in 90 days! On top of that he is over 50

years old. He was pretty motivated. We were able to share a Book of

Mormon with him. We then went to dinner, and told our dinner about

giving out the Book of Mormon to one of their neighbors. The wife

totally know the guy and was excited that we gave him a Book of

Mormon. She is going to be following up with his reading! Go members:)

Then this Saturday we were out street contacting and meet this amazing

lady named Brooke. We talked to her for about 45 minutes all about the

importance of families. Family was very important to her, she really

loves her family. She had a lot of similar values as us, she would

make an awesome member! We were able to share the Family: A

proclamation to the world with her as well as the Book of Mormon. She

expected both and told us that she would share them with her husband.

I really hope she will let us come back and teach her family.

        We also had a really good exchange with our new branch mission

leader, our relief society president and her sister who is a recently

returned missionary. They are all incredible people and are a lot of

fun to be around. For the exchange we had a list of people that we

wanted to visit and invite them to come back to church. The second

person we tried ended up being asleep, but his brother was home and

was not a member. He told us that he had been to church a couple of

times and had meet with missionaries before. He stared asking a lot of

questions and then eventually let us in. We talked a lot about the

importance of prophets and the importance of the Book of Mormon. We

also testified that this was Christ's restored church on the earth

today. He talked a lot bout what his goals were in life. He wanted to

get married and have a family and find a good job, both of which are

righteous desires. If he accepts the gospel, it will help him reach

these goals and allow him to achieve even more things that God has in

store for him. All he has to do is read and pray. It's that simple! It

was a really neat teaching setting, because the three members who came

with us are all returned missionaries and all bore testimony of the

Restoration and Book of Mormon. It was awesome! We have a meeting with

him next week.

        Well I am grateful everyone is having fun this summer and staying

plenty busy. What a wonderful time to be a member of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yes the world is vey wicked, but we

have the truth. We know God lives and is very aware of who we are and

what we are facing. Trust him and look to His son. The world needs our

)This is brother Bruellisauer. He is super cool! He has a ton of sweet guns:)

examples! I love y'all: