Easter fun!

4-21-14

I got the Easter package-thank you so much for that!!  We ate through the candy pretty quick and I really enjoyed those "Last Days of Christ" papers.  Those were neat!  It was a fun Easter Sunday out here!  The message that we shared with people this week was the church's Easter video that they put out, "Because of Him".  You have probably seen it multiple times because it is all over the church's websites and they even bought out the youtube banner so that it would be on the home page and a lot more people could watch it.  It was awesome to just talk about the Savior and His atonement this entire week and study it a little more thoroughly.  This Easter Sunday was great, too.  Everyone was super happy and nice at church.  We had a few investigators show up, and they really enjoyed it.  We went to a member's home for lunch and dinner, and at our dinner appointment, they had a 3 year old son, and we helped them set up an Easter egg hunt for him.  When they let him start hunting for the eggs, he was screaming the entire time, especially whenever he would find an egg.  He is such a hyper kid.  I wish I would have caught it on my camera.  He just screams when he gets excited.  It was so funny.  That was the highlight for the week.  It sounds like you all had a nice Easter, even though the week was a little rough.
Dad, I have heard of that "Everyday Missionaries" book a lot.  Everyone says that it is really good, but I don't think a lot of the members know about it here.  Tonight we are going to be going to our ward mission leader's home with another family for family home evening, and we are doing a short lesson on how they can do member missionary work.  We are going to talk a lot about Elder Ballard's talk in this last conference and how they can use Preach My Gospel to learn how to become member-missionaries.  Hopefully, it all goes well.  That is awesome that you are studying up on how you can invite others to hear the Gospel.  I still feel apprehensive about approaching someone to learn about the gospel, but once you get past the first few seconds, it's easy because either they just say no and walk away, or they say sure and you just start going into your message.  The key is to just grab their attention really quick and to ask them some question that really gets them thinking, in which you can provide a few quick answers.
Let me know if my letter ever got to you because I think that after I sent it off, I might have messed up the address, so it may not have gotten to you.  I'm sorry if it didn't!  Love ya!

Love,
Elder A. Whaley