January 2, 2019

Salut!! What a crazy week! As tech missionaries, we have been working on a video to introduce a new way of finding people in the mission called facebook finding! Its where we add people on facebook and them message them and try to get appointments with them in person. We have already had so much success with it! It is very new and we are one of the first missions to introduce it which is super cool! I am so excited to be behind this! We get to do a training on it at MLC tomorrow so that we can get it going! I think that technology is one of the miracles of the mission. It is so incredible to me that the Lord has chosen this specific time in history for technology to come forth. Now we are using it to find and people, just like the liahona! I know that these really are the latter days and the Lord is revealing all of his tools for helping this work progress rapidly! I am excited to see what mircales come out of this. I feel that there are going to be many. Especially in the youth. They are going to be the generation that welcomes Christ. They are elect. Another cool thing is that we have a new person on date! Her name is Sophianne and she is the most beautiful happy soul! She stopped smoking and drinking coffee without us inviting her to! Seriously she is so awesome! She is set for the 12th! And she is so pumped! While we were teaching her, she kept saying how cool it all was! And how she really wanted it in her life. She has been so prepared and is so ready. I love how this gospel changes people! I will continue to keep working hard to find these elect souls who are ready to give their lives to this great and marvelous cause! This church is full of such joyful people! Sound, solid truth fully understood, sifts out a lot of the fluff of this world which confuses and hurts so many people. I am so grateful to have truth. It makes so much more room for joy in my life. I love this work. I am grateful to be a missionary and I am grateful for my Savior, my rock. I love Him. I hope that all is well with all of you and that you feel joy too. love soeur Bates