Showing posts with label Book of Mormon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book of Mormon. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2013

Goodbyes & Gratitude


Hello My amazing family!!!!!!

Holy good it was to talk to yall's yesterday!! haha I'm feeling really good today actually! Like it was hard for a sec after we hang up but after that I just felt super and was able to focus the rest of the night! Today we are going up to a place in the mountains called Catherine Creek lodge! It sounds like it'll be pretty cool! there are some hikeing trails and stuff we are going to explore so ya! I'll get lots of pictures again!! They have a pipe that brings natural glacier water down from the top of the mountain and we are bringing some empty milk juggs to stock up for the week!  So ya it'll be fun! we also have some good lessons planned for this evening and The Baker city elders came up to hang out with us today so it should be really good! 


Well this week seemed really busy but we had a bunch of extra things we had todo along with our proselyting. We had a Zone Conference on Friday in Caldwell which is pretty much right next to Boise so we had to get up flippin early.. like 430.. but it was definitely worth it!

It was soo good to seem some of my Buddies from Nampa and the MTC and all of that so ya it was cool :) It was President Cannon's last Zone Conference with us so that was kind of sad.. He shared some awesome experiences and I learned ab bunch! Haha he asked each of us to think about what our Mission has meant to us. That was so crazy, You don't really think about all of the experiences or people or just everything that you have learned and how things have changed about you untill you take a step back and look at it as a whole. As I was thinkin back on all the things that I am grateful about my mission hit me like a wall. I kinda teared up with P-Cannon as he told us what his mission has meant to him and I really realized just what its meant to me. That probably one of the reasons I teared up so much yesterday.. lol. I really am so incredibly grateful. I've had the opportunity to be a part of some really amazing things. I'm also glad I have some more time to get work done and have some more experiences on the way!!
Me and Elder Bennet on his last night in the area
Anyways something that was super awesome this week was Brian Davis came to church!!! we have been trying to get him out for awhile! On Wednesday morning while planning for his lesson we had a few things stick out to us that we felt Brian needed to hear! We were teaching the Plan of Salvation and we felt that we really needed to spend some time focusing on Divine potential and individual worth. We read some scriptures with him and talked about it for awhile and he told us at the end that he needed that message really badly..  He said that he had extremely depressed and felt kind of worthless recently and that he had never really though about what he could eventually become! It was a flippin powerful lesson!!

We taught this less active guy Roddy who has a bunch of Word of Wisdom problems about the power of prayer. That was so awesome! he broke down and told us how he's been afraid to prayer because of the mistakes he's made and everything going in his life right now.. We just told him about how much he Is loved by Heavenly Father and he asked him to pray every morning and night. We also invited him to say the the closing prayer as well and we knelt down and had a BOM prayer!!! He also invited us back for family home evening with his fam! We are super excited! He came to church as well!  Soo after talking with yall last night we decided to try some people that are hard to get ahold of during the week.. 
Me and Elder Rogers on his last day in the mission!
We finally talked to the less active guy named Blake! He is living with his Girlfriend who is a Prior investigator that we haven't been able to meet with yet.. We talked to him for a solid 40mins and he said that he was forced into the Church and that he just never gained his own testimony and that he has been to lazy to try and find out for himself if the church is true. We talked about what the gospel means to us and how it could help change his life! The spirit was crazy working on him the whole time! We talked about him and Sabreina(his GF) getting married and what would help breing them closer together. He's going to start comeing to church with her for now on!!! Also we talked about how if he wanted his own testimony and if he Wanted Sabrina to get one as well they needed to Read the B.O.M together and pray together every night. He said he would! We are going to go have a lesson with them on Saturday and text them dureing the week to see how their reading and stuff is going. He know's he's the reason Sabrina hasn't got baptised and so it was so good to just talk to him! I deffinitely was way more bold with him then I am most of the time and the spirit just testified of all the things we were telling him! Hopefully we'll see a wedding here pretty soon and then a Baptisim! I'm so hyped!!
Everyone else is really well :) We have a super busy teaching week planned out so far! Hopefully we'll set Bap dates With Colton and Brian!!! I love being able to do this work yall! when ever I get feeling down or missing home or whatever I focus on all of the crazy awesome thing I get to do and It gets better!!

I love this Gospel! haha its the "Good News!!" I've come to know my Savior so much these past few months!!! I love him! and I love my Heavenly Father for letting me help in this work! Love you all so much!!!!!!!! I'm super excited for the next few weeks to see what going to happen! Keep on sending the prayers my way and send a few down to Hermana Conger In Orlando to!!! :) Love you allll!!!!!!!!!! have a great week!!!!!!!!

Monday, May 6, 2013

Blur of a busy week - baptisms & growing testimonies

Hey!!!!!!!!!! 
first off I am so excited to talk with you all on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!! that is awesome! Only 2 more calls home after this! wow time flies! So I didn't get transfered this time around! Me and Epperson are staying together for 6 mor weeks atleast which is good! we are getting along pretty darn well lately and the work is exploding! Elder Bennett did get transfered though... He's on his way to Kimberly Idaho to be a Zone leader in the Twin Falls mission! I'm proud of that little guy! It'll be wierd serveing in Lagrande without him.. haha we've been together since January and its crazy just how much we went through together! He's one of my best friends for sure! haha I stayed up talking with him while he was packing untill like 4 in the morning lol! It was fun! we had a good heart to heart and played some pranks on the other 2 sleepy heads and it made for a good night lol! haha I'm pretty dang tired today though lol!  
Miranda and Mic have been emailing me and that's been soo awesome!!!!!! I've been missing you guys this past week or so.. I also got a letter from Kera and Josh!! Thank you so much! I'll write back soon! Sounds like things are going well and people are getting healthier! I was so stoked to hear about Miranda's IV treatment stuff!!!! that is so sick!!! lol anyways keep me up on whats going on and I guess I'll get to talk to you all about it on Sunday!!!! 
This week is a blur! haha we were pretty dang busy!! we got to hit the best of both world and taught 26 lessons as well a bunch of service hours! A busy week makes for a good week! Ok week highlight!!!! Suzanne is getting Baptized on May 25th!!!!!! We had an incredible lesson with her Thursday night! we watched the Restoration video and then talked about the resoration of Christ's Gospel ment for her! Holy dang that was a powerful experience! she has a big inferiority complex and she just can't find the good in her self.. Its heart breaking but it felt so good to bear testimony that again and again how she truly can be forgiven of past mistakes and how much Heavenly Father truely loves her. I have gained a huge testimony of how much Heavenly Father knows the needs of each of his Children individually just from the promptings we receive during a lessons and the feelings we have for the person. I think that its a gift of the Spirit that heavenly father allows us through the Holy Ghost to not only say what he wants to say to these people but also feel a portion of how he feels for them. We talked about the cleansing attributes of Baptism and repentance and she kinof broke down. The most powerful feeling or part of the lesson was by far the closing prayer. She is super shy and selfconciouse about what others think so even when she has tried to say prayers out loud with us she just shuts down and can't think.. So we invited her to say a silent kneeling prayer at the close of the lesson and that was incredible. It felt like Heaven was really in that room and the spirit just filled everything! I read in a talk by President Packer that we are suppose to keep special spiritual experiences to ourselves and only share them when prompted to but I do feel that yall need to know just how incredible seeing the Gospel's light work on someone is! Soo I'll share with yall in here a few things and I'll save some for back home stories! ahaha 
anyways we also had another really good Lesson with James! we went over to Sister Wheeler's house( who is this freakin awesome woman who got baptized when she was 19 and the served a mission 2 years later!!) He talked to her about how her parents felt when she joined the church and how they feel now about it! I t was really neat to hear him ask some of his questions and Sister Wheeler helped resolve a bunch of his concerns!! He read all of 1st Nephi Last week!!!!!!! he is just soaking it in and is on fire! We asked if he knew it was true and he said that he's probably just fooling himself at this point but since he hasn't been a "spiritual" person for so long he's still allowing some doubts to enter his mind about some stuff.. He'll be baptized soon if he lets his faith grow and dosn't try to smother it.. We are working with him though! he descrices it as his little faith seeds like a mini mini tree but he can feel it growing! Its cool to see a guy who didn't even believe that he had father in Heaven who loves him!!!!! 
So thats the highlights!! we are also working hard with Brian, Doug and a bunch more! Really quick Colton re-accepted an invitation to be baptized and we are setting a date with him this Friday!!! we is a 16 yr olf kid in Union!!  
I love you all so much!!!! have an awesome week!!!! I'll see ya on Sunday!!!!!!!!!