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Pray for baptisms

Hey everyone. This week I got them from dad, mom, and Melissa. It was really fun to hear from you. I hope you all have a fun next week for Thanksgiving. Hopefull we do something next P-Day special for it. Dad I was able to read that talk and I really liked it. I have plans on going back thorugh it frequently. Mom make sure to congradulate Grandma Hoole on the award. That is really cool. 

As for my week it was a very interesting week. We went back to F... and taught him again. Our lesson plan was "What do you want from us?" It was really cool as he talked about having some changing moments. He then said that this church is the only true church and none else. He made some significant changes in his life to folow the commandments and has demonstrated a lot of faith. We gave him another date for Dec. We met with him nearly everyday last week with a bunch of members and they seemed to hit it off. It was a cool miracle to see.

We have begun taching a part member family in our branch. The husband is a member. He is such a rock. We have started to teach his wife and things went pretty well yesterday. We are hoping to move things a long quickly. She is really nice and has had the missionaries over before. Hopefully something this time will change. She is hard to teach because she really has little desire to know. But please pray for her to develop a desire. Her husband gets really sad when ever he talks about her, he wants to help so badly. 

On other news we had one of our best lessons with A.... He committed to living the Word of Wisdom for a week. We are hoping to extend this to his lifetime shortly haha. But it was good. We had a member that helped us and it was really good. He bore a really good testimony and even had some cool personal stories that he shared. 

Just so everyone is aware. We have set a goal in our campanionship for 2 baptisms in December. In our district there is a goal for 11 and for our mission there is a goal of 200 before the end of the year. (That is total baptisms) Please pray that we will be able to reach this goal. I know it is possible but it will be nothing short of a miracle. We can do this. 

So this week I was on exchanges with Elder Hughes (my trainee from Illychovsk). Monday night we called Vova our recent convert and talked with him. He is doing so good. He sounded so much like a member it was awesome. He was asking us about of investigators and our baptismal dates. He said he will be going through the temple in July. Which has sealed in my mind my answer of going the late date which will be July 24th. If given the option I will be going then. See ya then!

Well I hope you all know of my love for you all.

Love Elder Quinn

I have been called to be Young Men's President

So first of all last week I shared a scripture but I was a little off it was actually 2 Nephi 2:3 oops. But this week was transfers. Elder Saens is going home which is really too bad. He is such a great missionary. When I first came in he was a legend for being trainer, district leader, and branch president. Also Sister Filopovskaya is going to a new area. She was really fun to have in the district as she helped me with my Russian. But I and Elder Young will be staying together and Elder Arendt is coming to Cherkassy to serve with Elder Hughes, which was a surprise because he started his mission here. Also Sister Wease in the district will be training so it will be fun to have a trainee in Cherkassy. 

AS far as investigators go it was a crazy week. Almost daily F... has changed his mind about baptism. We aren't really sure why. This morning he txted us saying he still wants to be prepared for baptism after last night telling us not to come over anymore so we will see how it goes. We didn't meet with a lot of old investigators this week but met a lot of new ones. We taught 3 full first lessons on Friday and taught another one as well that day. The people we have are showing a lot of potential so hopefully we will be able to help them progress. We have so much so close we just need to finish the job. 

This past Satrday we had an open house that the branch put on. It was really well done and we as missionaries weren't expected to do anything. We had 20 people come thorugh which tripled the last open house they had. A lot of potential came from that which was really cool. One lady said this is everything she has been looking for in a church. Two people even came back to church the next day. It was my first open house and it went really well. All we did was stand outside and invite people in. As far as the district goes the other Elders have 2 baptismal dates that are soo cool. They are both practically counting down the days until they can get baptized. It has been cool to see. 

So yeasterday I got a pretty big surprise from my branch president. He called me in and called me to be the Young Men's President here in Cherkassy. I did nopt see this coming at all. We had one but he was a little less-active but trying his best. President Shaparda told me that President Klebingat already knows about this and approved of it. It is definately going to add some more work to my plate but I am really excited. We have two young men in the branch who are really fun. I am looking forward to helping them prepare for missions. I can only hope I can help as much as my young men's leaders helped me. It will be an exciting couple of weeks.

Well thanks again for everything. I love you all so much.

Love Elder Quinn

Christ lives and loves us

Hey everyone this week I got letters from dad, mom, Katie, Natalie, and Hannah. Thank you dad for informing me on the news about Melissa and Justin. It seems they forgot to let me know haha. I am really happy for them. I had a hunch that another anouncement would be coming soon. It might be a long time until we don't have someone having a baby in our family. Katie it sounded like your Relief Society week went really well. I read the paper but was unable to watch the videos because we are in a room without headphones but I might be able to next week. Natlie thanks agian for the pictures. Hailey is so cute. And Hannah congrats again on State. You'll be there soon! 

Well first of all one thing I thought was really cool was many of you wrote to me about the Atonement. I have also been looking at that a lot in my personal study. It really is such a blessing to know more about it than many people. One thing I really liked that Katie said was Christ felt every pain. He didn't just feel more pain than us he felt more less and everywhere in between. He litterally knows how we feel at all times. It is so great to know this. Thank you all for your testimonies. 

So this past week was pretty good. We set another date with F... He will be baptized on the 24th of November so hopefully that goes well. Unfortunately we lost contact with I... and haven't gotten a hold of him all week. We really hope we can find him soon. We had three investigators at sacrament meeting yesterday which was super cool. We are still hoping on giving a date to A... this week. We are meeting with him Thursday so hopefully that goes well. 

This past week we had Italian Night as a finding activity. Unfortunately because we put in a lot of time so we were unable to use direct finding ideas like contacting or book tabling. But we did hav 6 non-members at Italian night which was fun. It went really well. I put up some pictures sorry I haven't put up any for a little. But we made it look really nice. Mom you would have been proud. We had a trivia game using a pizza I made it was super funny. 

This past wek we had specialized training from President Klebingat. It is essentially a Zone Conference but we can only have 4 of those a year so he calls them something else so we can meet more often. It was so good. We talk about ways to make sure our investigators know what we expect of them. Using a tri-pod analogy. It was super cool. We also discussed some results of a survey we took from Salt Lake City. It looks like our mission is pretty obedient but of course there is always room for improvement. 

Well I just want to end with my testimony that I know Christ lives right now and he loves us with a love we can't understand. He atoned for all of our sins. The debt has already been paid. 2 Nephi 28:6 (sorry if I got that scripture wrong) but it is when Lehi is talking to his son Joseph saying that he has "already been saved." Past tense meaning the debt was paid all he has to do is try his hardest and the rest will be made up. It is such an amzing gift from our Heavenly Father. 

Well thanks again for everything. I love you all so much.

Sincerely, Elder Quinn

ITALIAN NIGHT!

ITALIAN NIGHT

baptismal interviews an amazing experience

As for my week it was a very rewarding week. I was able to interview two people for baptism and confirmation and both of those went through. It was so amazing to hear them testify of the truths that they had recently been taught. It was an amazing experience. I hope there are more to come. The baptisms on Saturday went very well. We had 7 non-members there which was awesome. All of them then stayed for the Firside by President Klebingat. It was seruiously the most amazing thing I have ever heard. He did it about his life and the tender mercies of the Lord. It really was amazing. 

Right before the baptism we had an investigator show up early so we sat down with him to teach him. At the end of the lesson we comitted him to be baptized on the 17th of November. And he agreed. His name is I..... He is a really nice older man. He didn't come to church yesterday unfortunately but hopefully we will be able to meet with him this week a couple of times. As for our other investigators we are looking to give A....  a baptismal date this week as well. He came on Saturday and talked with President Klebingat one on one for a long time aftewards. It was so cool to see. He is really nice and is a little older as well. We will see how it goes. We ran into him that night on the street and talked to him again and he mentioned that all he wants to do is go somewhere quiet and pray about the Book of Mormon. I was more than happy to hear that. That's about it for us but the district is doing well and we have 5 standing dates in our district right now. 

This week we did a really fun thing with a member from our church. She is older and is a part member family so we invited her to a tea night at the branch building where we got to know her a little better and showed her our pictures. She was so excited. It was really fun to talk with her and to meet new people. We are hoping to do this with some of the other women in our branch so we can get to know them better. 

Well that is about it for my week. Thanks again for everything! I love you all so much!

Love Elder Quinn

P.S. Mom about my Christmas package just surprise me :)