Hey everyone!! hope everything is going well back home!!
this week was a great week! jackie and cori are doing great!
jackie read the entire gospel principles book in one day haha and she has read
151 pages in the BoM in like 3 days! she is nuts! haha but they didnt make it
to church this week cuz cori sprained her ankle and jackie couldnt find a
sitter on such short notice. We will keep working with them though and helping
them progress to their baptismal date!
other investigators are doing well! we set a date with dennis
last night and are hoping he and tena (member of the church... not sure if i
have talked about them before) will get married soon. tena really wants all
this to happen, so i think it will move pretty quickly!
gabe and stephanie are doing well. they have been busy so we
havent been able to see them as often as we would like, but they fed us again
last week and we will hopefully be able to get over there tonight.
elder bass and i are doing well! we have been teaching a lot of
lessons, and doing a lot of service. people have some terribly tough lives out
here.. its really hard to see sometimes. watch the mormon message, "good
things to come." i used it as the basis for my gospel principles lesson
yesterday and i love that video. thats what we need to keep in mind when we are
going through tough times. we need to know that Heavenly Father's plan for each
of us is better than our own plan we have for ourselves. Mormon 8:22
We had this crazy guy approach us the other day and tell us he
loves men of God and that he was a student of ancient scripture and things. so
i got excited, thinking he had read the BoM maybe or something, but he just
started talking about crazy stuff and how he doesnt believe in most religion
because they lie to you. "they never told us about the giants in church!
Genesis 6:6!” (it is actually genesis 6:4, i looked it up later) but he was going off citing scriptures about
giants, and about how "triangles are everything." wayyy weird haha
soo hard to keep a straight face as he was telling us about aliens and how they
live and have lived here, but we dont recognize them because they are a
different form of energy. this story was going somewhere, but i forgot where it
was going... so.......
anyways, check out this scripture! one of my favorites.
definitely underrated and underused: Mormon 9:27-28
27-“O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto the
words of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus for what things
soever ye shall stand in need. Doubt not, but be believing, and begin as in
times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your heart, and work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling before him.
28-Be wise in the days of your
probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it
on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no
temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.”
love you all!
ps go cougars!!
pss brother schindler (He was their awesome Ward Mission Leader that came to our
home to visit us) accepted a job teaching in idaho and left a few days ago. that
was very sad and it will be very difficult to make up for the giant hole this
will leave in the ward and in our efforts!!
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