Book of Mormon Converts!

This week has been pretty awesome. my preparation day will be Tuesday next weekbecase Elder Pearson and his wife are coming to have a mission tour here!

Hope your all doing well!

We've seen great miracles here! I got to give a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday which was fun!

Sounds like Harvest was a good time!

It's getting pretty cold here!

We have an investigator that told us that she would do whatever we said and whatever God said because she got an answer praying about the Book of Mormon! She wants to be baptized. We'll see what happens!!

Love you all! Happy to hear the Cougs won! Have a great week!

My joy is full!

THis week has been an amazing one! We have seen many miracles and I love being back in the city! I am really starting to adjust again and am looking forward with great anticipation for what is ahead here!

I have already learned so much from Elder Milad and am excited to learn so much more!

Yesterday was a real treat! We had stake conference! I got to see a family from up north that is investigating and is from Heaven. And many other members from up there!

    Also a real tender mercy. Not sure how well you will remember Brother Franko from when I served in downtown. But he was there too. I have had pretty average (at best) contact with him due to him being busy and whatnot. Anyway found out from him how excited he is to be baptized November 19th!! It seems pretty much 100%. So we'll have to pull some strings and get a Farsi speaker there so we can go haha. He said, when you were teaching me the timing was just too close to when my brother had passed away, but now I am ready! He also said, "why didn't you tell me all of this?? These guys tell me so much and you guys were just spoon feeding me!" haha. He was very prepared then and is now ready to make that binding covenant and recieve the powerful ordinances. I am so thrilled for him. My joy honestly feels so full!

     I am so grateful that I get to be here and a part of the Lord's work. How I desire to be His hands and allow Him to speak and act through me. Above all else I desire to be one with Him, truly one. I love you and know the Lord knows the deepest pleadings of your heart, even the ones you don't seem to know exactly how to sing.

    Have a great week!

Elder Bakker transferred

This week has been an awesome one! We saw many miracles!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

One big highlight for me this week was our meeting with one of our investigator families and our mission President and his wife. I was struck powerfully by the love that they demonstrated towards that family! He also gave the mother a blessing with powerful promises. I know he really is the one who at this time holds keys through proper Priesthood Authority. I love him and Sister Shields.

     I hope everyone back home is doing wonderfully! Everything here really is incredible!

     Transfer news came this week. Elder Bakker has been transfered to English work in Kitchener serving in a Young Single Adult branch! I also have been transfered to Farsi South based out of the Don valley area! I am now serving with a seasoned misisonary Elder Milad(Elder Bakker's previous companion before serving with me). We are looking foward with great hope for the future! The area here really has been increbily watched over and cared for and there will be much to reap!

    It was difficult to say goodbye to many people this week from richmond Hill, on the bright side their is about a 95% chance I will serve there again! Can't wait to see what the Lord is able to accomplish with the new Elders serving there!

      I love you and you are always in my prayers. I know that the greatest and most fulfilling path to happiness is when one lives the Gospel of Jesus Christ and allows the Atoning power of the Savior to transform them into someone who is lost in the service of their fellow brothers and sisters. How grateful I am to bring this message here and how I deserve to prove faithful to the end.

     Have a wonderful week! Eat some Turkey or kabob for me!