Letter From Elder Deans Mom, Nancy!

Heather,

Just wanted to share a few things from Elder Dean's email this week. "SUPER BOSS" are the words John uses for amazing!

"Well everything continues on with greatness here in sunny Miami!! My companion is a SUPER BOSS and has easily become one of my favorites, if not the favorite, companions that I have had in the mission field. We continue to be united and seeing great miracles."

"I have often times wondered as the weeks have gone by, how is it that each week is amazing and most times more than the week before. I would definitely say that the council of our leaders has helped us a lot in making every week a better week to always strive to create miracles and fully access the Atonement of Jesus Christ. This week we thought that the week was going bad. We evaluated ourselves and found that we were getting into a little routine, so we broke it. We used the Faith cycle and created miracles. We met a super solid young couple who have been looking for a church to join and they were struggling a little bit because Mary's mom had kicked her out of the house and wouldn't let her live there anymore. They felt sorrow and wanted to feel loved and wanted. The Lord provided them with these blessings as we came and left the blessing with them. They were crying after the blessing and quickly accepted the Lord's invitation to be baptized. They loved church and are continuing to prepare for the 10th.

We have been working with a youth named Anthony, and he has been keeping commitments left and right. He prays daily and continues to feel the Spirit. We went by the other day and shared the message of the restoration with him. We talked about faith and how it applies to him. Afterwards he gave the most humble prayer to know that what we were teaching is true. He felt a great desire to know more and to be baptized."

Elder Ovard may have shared these experience with you but just in case I thought I would send them on. Thanks again for your son!

Sincerely,
Nancy

Crazy Miami Peeps on Superbowl Sunday!

Well here I am back at the Library once again!!! haha Emailing my fam and watching crazy miami peeps haha

What another great week!! Thanks for forwarding the email from Elder Deans mom! I appreciate it. It's always good to hear things like that! He is a stud though haha I love him. He's had some tough comps and he has made a lot of changes but thats what lifes all about. And now we are giving it all we got so he can go home happy and with a feeling of success. I love him man.

 

So thanks once again for all the emails. You all have different things going on in your lifes and just seem busy busy busy haha Thats good though keep it up!! My week was awesome! The question about the sisters riding bikes... As far as I know they don't ride their bikes often. All the sisters have cars as far as i know so if it were me i probably wouldn't spend all the money to buy a nice one. They really only have to ride bikes if they don't plan their miles and they go over or something. I'm excited for her to get here though. (Kacey Rogers will be going to Ft. Lauderdale in April to serve as a sister speaking spanish.  They wanted to know if the sisters rode their bikes.  So I asked Elder O and this was the response.)

 

So mom i'm not the kids dad...  come on!! I didn't mean it like that. You made it sound like i was in love with lore or something and treated him as my son haha no no never. Just gotta be loving as a little child just as christ taught right :) ( I had to tease Austin and remind him that he was just a good example to Lazoro, not his father)

 

So sounds like mikey is getting all ready to leave haha WOW!!!! If possible will you guys like record his talk. IDK how but if there is a way like record it for me and send it to me. That would be super cool. I'd love that. I'm excited for him. I wrote his last week and he is going to do great!(Michael is Austin's really good friend and will be giving his farewell talk this Sunday.  Michael is going to Texas.)

 

This week was a little bit harder but still awesome! The only reason it was harder is because the peeps that we had for baptism yesterday were so so hard to get ahold of this week. We don't know why but they were tough. We did everything we could and because of that I know god is going to bless us and help us!  So this week will be awesome and we got the FE (faith)

 

For the superbowl haha wow yesterday man!!!! So idk how many drunk people we blessed but it was hilarious hahaha sad but they just were crazy. Other houses were playing like poker and stuff and they'd try and get us to play with them and what not hahaha man it's great.

 

Also this week more lessons at the MIAMI MARLINS stadium :) haha Dad thats crazy when you guys got like 1 discussion in your were happy. The lords work has definatily been hastened because now our goals are like 10 lessons a week with 7 member present lessons and like 5 less active recent convert lessons. So thats like 25 lessons a week and usually more with the whole blessing houses that we do. haha It's awesome and Im super blessed because it's through teaching that I have learned the most. This week we had a cool spiritual experience.

First of all we confirmed lore and lazaro. I confirmed lazaro. Lore text us last night and told us how grateful she was for us and how we helped change their family. It was cool. But also the other night elder dean and i were talking. We began talking about his past as a missionary and really he was just having a hard hard time getting it out of his mind and off his chest. I talked with him for probably 20 min about it and he was just like heart broken. I didn't know what to do. I was just trying to help him understand that god still loves him. He always will through the atonement. So I looked at him and said your fine man i know god loves you.. lets kneel down and say a prayer asking him to help you forget things so you can finish your mish strong. So we kneeled down and i began to pray. I prayed and got like half way through and i could hear him just crying. I continued the prayer and eventually finished. The spirit was taking over during that prayer. We both felt so much love and unity. We stood up and hugged and he said I feel good man. I know we can get these 8 baptisms this month. Ever since then he said he's had an easier time focusing and doing the work. It was awesome to see the spirit like that just take over :)

 

Well I love you guys and am grateful for my family. You guys are the best. Also if one of you guys want to like send pictures of like before the mish and just of your lives haha please do. We all love looking at pics at night. It's bomb. Also its ELDER SAMUELIAN mom the family that knows shan and sue haha i just asked him. He said he knows them!!

 

Love you guys!!

Elder Ovard

Specialized Training in Miami Lakes.  I love these 2 Elders!  Elder Hunter my comp from the MTC and Elder Diaz my Trainer.  Elder Dean is in an interview at this time so he is not in the picture! :(