The Last Months

Hello!! 

Here's a short report (:
Things I have decided to do each day of my mission to form as a habit for the rest of my life:

Give away 2 copies of the Book of Mormon with my personal testimony written in the front
300 Press Ups/Day
Invite someone to Baptism, further an ordinance for someone's Eternity
Be able to say truly and completely at the end of the day, "I followed every prompting from the Holy Spirit."
Say all the prayers I can, on my knees

"Before you know it, your mission will be over and you will spend the rest of your life reflecting on this experience."  


Our area really is on fire!  We are enthusiastic about it, and the other day, we looked at each other and said, "It is promptings and the Holy Ghost, not us."  We both agree that these things are a gift from the Lord.  We are working as hard as we can.  


Elder Hogge's allergies make him my hero.  It takes so much energy away from him, but he's still exact in all things, giving his heart, humbly rising to each moment.  I love his example.  So much I am learning from him.  

A goal that is transforming the approach of the last sprint of Mission Time, is that I have committed to the Lord for the rest of my mission as long as there are copies of the Book of Mormon in my flat, I'll give away 2 per day with my personal hand written testimony in the front.

Thanks to that goal the Holy Ghost revealed to me, we have another Baptismal Date, we have an investigator who is already almost done with 2nd Nephi and loving it AND dragged us over to a fellow employee in the store and said, "please give my friend here one too!  Teach her also.  I can't put this book down.  I am addicted to it."  A pastor of another church now believes that this is the only true church, and we read all of 3 Nephi 11 with him.  He really felt the Spirit strong and is making the big decision whether he will give up his profession to follow this truth or not.  A Christian man who always cuts our hair was talking about how confusing it is how all the churches argue.  He warmly accepted the Book of Mormon and is very prepared for it!  A 17 year old young indian man just showed up at church, we made great friends with him right away, and he stayed for all 3 hours of church, loved the Book of Mormon we gave him, and is interested in coming every single week from now on! 

This has strengthened my vision for what a priceless tool Heaven has sent us!  We need to share it non-stop.  Flood each area, and the Lord seems to kind of do the rest.  We just need to PROCLAIM.  That has become my favorite word this week. 

"People just need to know what they need to do.  No one can tell that to them but us.  We just have to say it!  We have to proclaim"  Elder Hogge said this, and it was alike a paradigm shift for me.  He's so right!  That's  our focus now and it is making all the difference.

We were only able to proselyte 4 days this week because of the boil.  Now it is all gone.  We are looking forward to showing the Lord our gratitude for the Atonement by how Consecrated we choose to unitedly be this week.  I am ready to focus.

I commit that I will give my Best effort to match the "Consecrated Missionary" in all aspects.  

Wonderful, amazing people are going to be Baptized this month! One,  She went to the Temple with her son and prayed there if all this is true.  She wants to go next month to the Temple to be sealed to her husband and children!!! This is a dream come true for them.  It has reinforced my testimony that all we need to do is Be Consecrated in "not letting any of His words fall to the ground," act on this moment's prompting from the Holy Ghost.  All good success follows for others we serve on His behalf. 

Looking in the mirror the other day, I could truly say, "I am a different person than I was."  This is proof of the Atonement that is the highest treasure.

What I value has been consolidated to what The Lord values most. 

My boil is all better!  

This is all the time I have. 

Love, Elder Howard