An awesome thing happened this week. We visited an investigator that was dropped by us, and we brought a member along. We taught 3rd nephi 18: 1-25, and afterwards commited him to come back to church, I really thought he was going to get up and give me a hug, (and say something like, man I will come back to church, I need it in my life, something like that) but instead he just gave me a really firm handshake. It was awesome, it's the first time he's really understood the spirit and what we teach. This week was transfer week, my companion Elder Williamson is heading back into Oshawa, and my new comapnion in peterborough will be Elder Sanders. Peterborugh isn't an area where I get fed a lot. Amazingly enough I am keeping up my weight, and I am working out my upper body, that's the good part about Peterborough, they have some good weights. This week seemed to go really slow, probably because transfers were this week. We taught a young man,18, who I had given a book of mormon to. It turns out he has actually been reading it. He has had a really tough life, and he lives in a group home, but his mom was a church girl and he wanted to get back into religion. We taught him about the book of mormon and about baptism, but we didn't commit him to baptism. I want you to tell all the people leaving on missions real soon to commit investigators to baptism, don't be afraid, just commit to baptism. We have a talk out here called challenging and testifying missionary, it comes from a general conference a long time ago. (I believe.) My suggestion is if you can get a hold of it before your mission, and study it thoroughly, even practice it, you will see a lot more success on your mission. My advice to prospective missionaries is to become challenging and testifying missionaries, it is hard, but it will help you give your all i know that if i do apply it I will see miracles happen.
Take Care All,
Elder Dumouchel
