#discoverthebook

Dear family and fiends how all ya all doing

So this week launched our facebook campaign #discoverthebook which
many of you may have seen or heard about. Well it was super
successful. We were in the Deseret news, and Mormon.org did a write up
on us. We are starting to get peoples attention. BUT this week is part
two. Tomorrow is the event #searchthebook. We want everyone to post a
picture of them reading the Book of Mormon in their favorite reading
spot. Make it your profile picture for the week, so more people will
have the chance of seeing it! The other facebook missions are joining
with us and hopefully we will have 100,000 people invited to attend
this event, but we need your help. Please look up the event on
facebook and join it since I can't personally invite you on facebook
to do that!
But we have seen MIRACLES from it! Me and Sister Shumway have been
able to send out 3 copies of the Book of Mormon to people. One in
Ohio, one in Arizona, and another to North Carolina. People are
interested in reading it. Also a girl found me and we have been
teaching her a bit. She just started meeting with Elders but after a
lesson or two with us she had decided to be baptized!!!! This week she
is praying about when. Super excited. Too bad my mission president
won't let me go to Canada to see it :/ ha just kidding. :)
But with the online miracles comes some of the online crazies. One
lady told me that Joseph Smith was taken over by the angel Mormoni. I
had a good chuckle at that one.
Our investigators are kind of at stand stills right now. So we are
taking a big leap of faith and dropping those who are not progressing,
and trying to find people who will progress. We need to find those who
The Lord has prepared to learn about this right now, and just let the
seeds we have planted in others grow for a while.
We have been doing a lot of tracting and have met some very
interesting people. Most of them have been nice this week. One lady
even gave us some mimosas and peaches from her front yard. Mimosa
smells so wonderful! The south really does beat us when it comes to
lovely smelling flowers.
I gave my first training in district meeting. It  was on the Book of
Mormon. I have come to love that book soooo much more than I even
thought was possible. A lady this week asked us why we carry around
the Book of Mormon and not the bible. Well I realized a bible wouldn't
do us much good here any way because everyone already has one, and
they all interpret it differently. The Book of Mormon is so important
because it really does show us that we have the priesthood power in
our church. THE PRIESTHOOD it EVERYTHING! It's the most important part
of the religion. If it wasn't for that we would just be another church
without authority to perform saving ordinances.
So many people just go for socializing down here. Its pretty crazy.
Oh I don't know if I mentioned this but our President has asked that
we ask our friends and family back home to join us in praying and
asking Heavenly Father to help us achieve our goal of 1,000 baptisms
this year. We need a lot of help and a lot of faith that we will be
able to do this. Each missionary signed a banner with their name and
how many they say they want to baptize this year, I will send a
picture later.
We also attended Emma's baptism this week. She is already a member of
the ward, but we took our investigator and taught the restoration. It
was fantastic!
I'm not sure what else there is to share except pictures! :) have a great week!
Love,
Sister Chambers