Happy Valentines Day!

Hello all,

Even in a slow week I have seen miracles. We continue to teach Neesheri, the member returning to activity, and his girlfriend Corinda, who is slowly progressing. She is starting to better understand the atonement and how one Man could take upon Him the sins and sorrows of the world. We challenged her to test it out and that if she had a "particle of faith," she would see the atonement work in her life too.

Jack, our on-date is also progressing. He has really no knowledge of the Church, although he has been to church many times and his extended family are active members, but he will be ready for baptism when March rolls around. Each time we go to teach him, the date keeps on getting pushed back so I really have no idea when the baptism will actually happen.

I have gained a testimony of having the spirit tell me where to go tracting. There is a street in our area that we pass nearly every day. A couple of weeks ago I had a prompting to tract there, but as time passed we always ended up going somewhere else. So this week we finally got around to tracting the street. Door after door rejected us, but I still felt that we needed to go on. When we knocked on the last door of the street we met a less-active man. He told us that the missionaries knocking on his door was the sign he needed to start coming back to Church and invited us back. The Lord will place people in our paths as we follow the spirit.

Be sure to watch out for the March issue of the Ensign. There is an article about the Issaquah 5th Ward. In the summer of 2006 there were many members who suffered many tragic events and the ward bonded together. It is a really cool article and mentions many people that I know! The article even mentions that one man is a non-member, whose member wife suffered. (There is a new feature online that will update the world on these families mentioned and hopefully the next update is that the husband is baptized, but I think it will only happen when his kids go on missions.)
Well, as you see it was kind of a dull week, but we keep on chugging along.

~Elder Richard Fetzer