Elder Jeffrey Hill

  Hey all! These last two weeks have been great but just a little bit slower than normal. My companion sprained his ankle two weeks ago and it's still bothering him. So we're still taking it easy here while still trying to get some good work done until my companion is able to get his ankle figured out. But we've still been able to find a lot of people to teach and help lots of people learn more about Jesus Christ! It was also especially awesome to have Easter and to be able to talk to people about the true purpose of Easter and about the atoning sacrifice of Christ.  I also got some exciting news this week! I found out that three people that I had taught in my last area who were on date for baptism were finally baptized this last week! It is so wonderful to know that this is the Lord's work, and even though I wasn't there for their baptism, while I was there teaching them, I could see how the gospel was bringing so many blessings to their lives. And it is just o...

  Hey All! These last two weeks have been pretty great! We have been working really hard to help the people we are teaching to progress. Things have been pretty good, but one difficulty that we've had here is that in being a poorer area, people are very very busy. A lot of people have to work 2 jobs to be able to provide for their families and so even the people who have a lot of interest in learning more about the gospel don't have time for us to visit very often. So we have a lot of people who are very slowly progressing. But we're doing our best to find the people who really have the desire to come unto Christ and to help them achieve that goal! We also did our best this last week to explain to everyone that we are teaching about general conference and invite them all to watch. I absolutely loved all of the sessions of conference and I loved to focus on the simple but powerful truths taught by the Savior! It was really a great reminder of the many ways that we can contin...