Monday we had our usual dinner
appointment with the Crewe family and we taught about the power of prayer.
Brother Crewe has a non member sister who lives with him and is almost always
at dinner. She sometimes sits in on the lessons we have afterwards. Well last
week we finally had the opportunity to invite her to take the lessons and she
accepted! We have our first return appointment tonight and we are excited to
teach her the restoration.
Tuesday we had a lesson with
Micheal Fremont a less active who is willing to meet with us but informed us in
our 2nd lesson that he did not want to come back to church. But he was willing
to read the BofM and meet with us so we decided an appointment every two weeks
would be perfect. Well our appointment on Tuesday was fantastic. We found out
that he is now into 2nd Nephi and has enjoyed reading quite a bit. Mike said
that before when he had read the Book of Mormon he always had a very hard time
understanding what he read. But he was happy to inform us that as he has been
reading he prays that he will be able to understand it and as he asks so he
receives. It is really awesome to see him progress in small steps. He even is
now considering coming to church and it has only been two visits over the span
of a month.
That evening we went over to the
Brackett's house. They are an active couple who have a LA daughter that is
married to a non member. We sat down with just the parents and made a plan of
how we can help Sierra and Charles accept taking the lessons from us. It was
exciting to make a plan with them. You could tell we were all kind of excited
to see what happens. I think they will accept the invite because they have been
to a baptism and church a few times recently. The spirit has been working on
them for sure.
Wednesday was DM and we had a
training by Elder Brinkerhoff about having a vision of what we want to
accomplish. He shared Proverbs 23:7 "For as he thinketh in his heart, so
is he." Love that. It is a powerful principle. If you want to develop in
any way, obtain spiritual gifts, have any good attribute then you need to first
be able to envision yourself being that way or achieving those goals
otherwise... it probably won't happen. Went along really well with Elder Ballard's talk of Return and Receive. I loved that talk so much.
Thursday we had exchanges with the
Hickory Hills elders. It was a fantastic exchange much needed by both elders.
They had been struggling to communicate with each other and both are getting
tired with the work in their area. At the end of the exchange we had a really
good exchange review and we were able to help the elders make a plan of how
they are going to work more closely with the members to get the work moving. I
love an exchange where we feel like we really did learn something from each
other. Much more enjoyable. We had dinner with Sister Foster that night and boy
was it good. Mashed potatoes with baked chicken and stuffing. It was so
good.
Right after closing the exchange
on Thursday night we drove out to Independence and exchanged with the
assistants. Me and Elder Childress were together on Friday and it was a great
throwback. We had a really good talk during the day and I just felt a lot of
love the whole time.
General Conference weekend...
ROCKED! I love conference weekend. Friday I was literally so excited I had
similar feelings that I used to get on Christmas Eve. It was awesome. There
were so many good insights I had. One of my favorite things was shared by
President Uchtdorf, he said that as leaders we are not there to simply lead
others we are there to be led by God. A good principle to remind yourself of
where you stand as a leader. I loved it.
I testify of the reality of a
living modern day prophet. If you did not listen to all sessions of General
Conference I highly encourage you to make the time available so you can
watch and learn from Gods anointed. I know that Thomas S. Monson is today's
modern day prophet. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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