Letter Sent on January 14, 2013

Dear Family,

This week was really good! We were able to really focus on finding and meeting with less active members. We especially had some good success with meeting with those who are Priesthood holders and getting to know them and share with them. Elder Rucker taught me that a good thing to do with LA members is to commit them to learn the first 4 missionary lessons again; so we've been asking people if we could come back and teach them again to help remind them about the doctrines and things they have forgotten.
We were biking down the road one day and felt prompted to go kinda out of the way and try to say hi to a recent convert member named Ming Nou that we hadn't been able to meet with in a while and then after we got to her house. She wasn't home.  After we started biking back towards our original destination and we were talking about how sometimes we don't always recognize why we were prompted to do something that we did; but that the Lord has a greater purpose or vision in mind.  Elder Jensen then felt that we should go and try to visit one of Ming Nou's sons who is a Less Active member and lives right by her.  We went to his house right at the right time and were able to talk with ,not the son we intended to meet with, but his other brother who is also less active. We were able to talk and get to know him some and figure out when we can meet with him again to help him out.  It was so neat to see how the Lord prompts us to do certain things and how when we take the time faith to go out of our way to follow through on a prompting, there are always blessings that come from it.  The Lord really does bless each one of us with promptings and revelation everyday and for that I am so grateful.  The Holy Ghost is such an amazing gift! Could you imagine if you just had to guess about everything and just hope that you made the right decision? We have the privilege of receiving direction everyday on what the Lord would have us do and say. 
There is a less active named Sophea who is a return missionary who I've told you about before. He came to church on Sunday-which was great! It is always such a sweet experience to see a less active member come back into the fold.  We had a nice lesson with him where he shared about what he was studying in the Book of Mormon and he compared himself to when Nephi broke his bow and how that is like when he was less active and how know he is starting to come back.  It is so great to work with Less Actives like Sophea and see that they want to come back but just need some help and encouragement.  I am sure that everyone of us has the opportunity to reach out to others and strengthen their faith and help those who have become inactive come back.
Anywho, things are going great in Ta Khmao! I know I say this like every week, but I love my mission so much and I pray that my love for it will only continue to grow.  I know that this is the best thing I've ever decided to do and I am so happy to be able to serve the Savior all day everyday.  I love Him and know that He lives and truly watches over us everyday. I love you too! Thanks for everything you do and for your prayers and love. Have an awesome week!

Love,
Elder Garlick