Sprint Week Vol. 2 (week 16)

Hello everyone! 

Its been kind of a crazy week here in Michigan but it has been a very good one! This week we sprinted again. Under the direction of President Heap, we set some new goals as a mission for spirit led invitations and were able to crush our sprint week goal once more

We set a goal for 1000 invitations to church and we got 1234 as a mission!

We set a goal for 400 member lessons scheduled or had, and we had 738 as a mission.

We set a goal for 1800 invitations to be taught and we got 2197 invitations as a mission.

We set a goal for 800 invitations to read the Book of Mormon and got 932 invitations as a mission. It was a great week for our mission. As a companionship we were able to see a lot of success come from this sprint week!

It has been a really good week though! We are teaching some truly amazing people. We are so grateful for them and for the opportunity that we have to get to know them and to contribute to their spiritual journey.

We've been without a car all weekend though. We took it in to get a washer fluid pump replaced on Friday and still haven't gotten it back, but we've been able to spend more time with other misisonaries in our district as they've given us rides around. It's been a good time! 

Its been a busy week but a really good one. Thank you for all of your support and I hope you are having a great holiday season so far!

Elder Oswald

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