Sooo... This week has been nuts I
really don't know where to start.
First off we lost Elder Linam this
week. We got a late night phone call from President at 10:21. He told Elder
Linam that he was being emergency transferred to Wichita Falls TX because a new
missionary was going home. Elder Linam's new companion is going to be....
*Drumroll* Elder Bushman. HA! Both me and Elder Memmott looked at each other and
laughed, because we both served with Elder Bushman, and now Elder Linam was. Ha
ha Elder Bushman. Such a funny guy. The next day we helped Elder Linam pack up
his stuff. All of our plans changed for that day. We had to drive Elder Linam
to the mission home and we had to get there at 7pm, so the whole day we were
visiting members and saying goodbye. I'm not going to lie it’s kinda nice
having only one companion now, cuz our apartment has so much more space now,
and Elder Linam left tons of food behind.
WE SET A BAPTISM DATE WITH B'S
FAMILY!!! YEEAH!! It was amazing! We visited with them late Monday night and we
taught them the Doctrine of Christ again and focused on baptism and the gift of
the Holy Ghost. We started the lesson with another object lesson and made it
really simple for D~ and K~. We explained and taught faith, repentance,
baptism, the Holy Ghost, and endure to end. We made the analogy that baptism is
like a gate and after the gate there are more covenants and blessings that
bring us closer and closer to our heavenly father. After we read some scripture
in the Book of Mormon we extended an invitation to their family to be baptized:
“Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone who
holds the proper priesthood authority of God?” B~ and J~ both look at each other
and said: "yes" my heart skipped a beat. J~ got emotional in her
voice, she told us that last Sunday at church everything clicked, everything
just made sense. She also explained to us that her and B~ have talked about it,
and don't want K~ and D~ to be baptized until they have that same desire and
gain a testimony of their own. SHE GETS IT! K~ and D~'s desire is slowly
growing and they are beginning to understand it, so our next visits are going
to be more focused on K~ and D~ to help them grasp the meaning of baptism and
the restored gospel, and helping them receive answers to their prayers. Their
date is set but not 100% solid yet. Their Baptism will be on Friday April 25th
and their confirmation will be on Sunday 27th.
On Sunday we had tons of investigators
at church. We had J~, K~, D~, and A~ FINALLY CAME!! He is the friend of Brother
Hills that we have been teaching for 3 months, he's a Choctaw Indian. It was
awesome. I felt like everything that was taught and discussed in church
answered his concern about priesthood authority and baptism. I guess we will
find out what he thought about it at our next visit. Later that night B~ and
his family fed us dinner and afterwards the Boger’s came over and we taught D~
and K~ the Plan of Salvation again. It was awesome, we used the analogy that
our life on earth is like High school. Our careers and the money we make in
life stands on how well we do in High school. The same goes for our life here
on earth. The choices we make and our efforts to live righteous lives effects
where we go after we are resurrected. It went really well and later the Boger’s
talked about temples and their purpose and how they get our families closer to
our Heavenly Father here on earth and in the life after. We then showed them
pictures of all of the temples on Lds.org on D~’s iPad. It was awesome they
spent like 10 minutes looking at all of the temples as a family. After B~ gets
baptized he will soon get the Priesthood and he can baptize D~ and K~, which is
what we are going to talk about next time.
Anyways things are going good me and
Elder Memmott are rockin’ the duo. Sometime this month we are going to have a
church tour with Bu~, De~, A~, and BL~. It’s going to be awesome.
Sorry if this email is hard to
understand, its’ been a crazy week and I can barely think straight haha.
I love you all! Keep me posted on...
stuff.
On the Coast
The new Mega Desk
Mountains II
Tree House
Fishin' Pond
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