Another letter form Elder Bigelow

Dear family

Wow this week has gone by fast. Everyone says if you make it to Sunday you are good to go and it starts getting faster and surprisingly they were right. thanks for the letter and supplies dad I still need a few more things I will have in my letter home that I need sent. But this week has had so many great experiences! I know its just the MTC but we have TRC appts. where you go and teach pretend investigators the lessons.

There is this place called the RC where you go and answer phones and do online chats with people who have questions about the church or what a Book of Mormon, Bible, church DVD, etc... so in TRC me and my comps decided we needed to make every
teaching time like it was the person that we needed to change and it was the one we had to talk to. Like you told me to do dad. So we prayed for guidance and help in it, and we went in talked to the girl and gave a lesson. We bore our testimony and just really did amazing!!! The spirit was so strong in our testimonies and talking about the restoration and families and at the end she told us that she has been a member her whole life but has had some difficult times and really needed to hear some of the stuff we talked to her about. She was very thankful for that, as was I.

Yesterday in the RC I talked to a lady from Alabama and she ordered a Lamb of God video. I talked to her about it and asked if she would like a Book of Mormon. I bore my testimony about it and she said yes. I then asked if she wanted missionaries in the area to come visit her and she DID! I also asked if i could call back next week to give her a new challenge in the book of Mormon and she thanked me because she was looking for a church to go to and had been doing research on a lot of them. She felt something different in this one so I bore testimony again of the Holy Ghost and the comfort it brings. It was great! Later last night I had another girl in a chat and she asked why God does not love her. He took her parents and she is pregnant at 14 years old. She was from Cali. I bore testimony of my mom and of the atonement and asked to have missionaries come visit but she was not ready, but tole me I could talk to her again. She gave me her number and I will be calling next week.

There was another guy who is Muslim and wanted to leave his religion, but was scared God would send him to hell if he was Muslim his whole life. He was from Kansas. I explained God loves all his children he then asked about our beliefs and was really interested. He asked to have someone come talk to him. That was cool. I also had a ton of bad ones and so did my district people trying to Bible bash and tell us we were going to Hell. But the few good ones out of the hundreds of contacts made it all a lot better.

In ten days the guys going to Dominican Republic are leaving to go down there for the rest of the MTC stay. That will be sad. I have really grown to be close to all those guys and I will miss them. We all plan on staying in touch and have district reunions when we get back. On Tuesday we had a fireside and someone from the Second Quorum of the Seventy came and after we had a district meeting to talk about what we liked and disliked. A member of the branch presidency was there and a couple missionaries bore really personal testimonies about family and difficult times they were having while being here. and he would stop them mid sentence and totally tear them apart and question them and it was so bad and we felt horrible. After he left I was the acting District Leader and took over the meeting since my comp had a leadership meeting with him. We then talked, bore testimony and all were sobbing the Spirit was AMAZING in the room. We all hugged after and just really care so much about how each one of us is doing. I love the feelings I have been having. I hope to hear back I love you guys. I will be listening for the cheers from the stadium. Keep praying for all of us. I love you!

Elder Bigelow