3rd week in Ypsalanti

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was wonderful! And to top it off, I got to see my family
over Skype on Mother's Day. I love my Mom and all she's done for me! I
know I've been a punk sometimes but she has been patient with me! I
love her so much.
   We did lots of finding this week, and we saw miracles! We found 8
new investigators and were able to teach 12 lessons. On Friday we had
Specialized training and President & Sister Gerber came to instruct us
on a few things. One being The Prayer of Faith. A few examples of The
Prayer of Faith in the Book of Mormon are Ether 3 with the Brother of
Jared, Enos 1, and Alma 8. Faith------->Righteous
Action------->Spiritual Capacity & Spiritual Power
As we pray with faith that God will help us accomplish what we want to
and then we go out and do all we can to make it happen, The Lord does
provide. Then we receive greater Spiritual Capacity and Power. Here is
an excerpt from my Email to President Gerber:
   "On Friday after Specialized Training we went out and used the
Prayer of Faith and it works! We prayed that we would be able to teach
at least 1 person about the Restored Gospel as we went out tracting
for the last 3 hours of the evening and we ended up finding a woman
named Qiana and her family who are really interested in learning more!
We shared The Family: A Proclamation to the Word with them and they
loved it, we set up a return appointment. It was about 8:45 when we
finally found this family, it wasn't right away after we said our
prayer, but The Lord does provide!"
   I know that this is The Lord's work and I am so grateful to be a
part of it here in the MDM! I am learning a lot from Elder Iverson, we
are working well together. I want to commit all of you who get this
email to use the Prayer of Faith in your lives. Explain to God exactly
what you want to happen, tell Him how you are going to do it, and
humbly explain that you NEED His help. Then go out and work. Report
back to Heavenly Father what you have accomplished and acknowledge His
hand in your life. As we continue in this pattern in our lives we will
grow in Spiritual Capacity and Power and will be able to teach the
Gospel effectively. We will also develop a pattern for receiving
answers to our prayers!
   I love you all so much, thank you for your prayers and support! I
know that this Gospel is True, and that God has restored His Church on
the Earth today through a Prophet, as he has always done. And we can
all enjoy the blessings that He has in store for us! We must choose it
ourselves though. He will not start forcing blessings on us even
though I'm sure he would love to give them to us. We must choose for
ourselves to learn more about the Gospel and apply it in our lives.
THEN, we will receive those blessings, and find true happiness and
purpose in this life. Have a great week!

-Elder Goff