How to know you have been in an area a long time.......
hello friends and family!!!! What
is up?
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| Sister Perrien and her daughter giving Mikey a new pair of shoes! Can't even believe their kindness and generosity!!! They make Mikey and his shoes look huge! |
Man this week was another awesome
one though where we saw a lot of miracles. After the area being on fire a
little bit the last couple weeks things had seemed to slow down and so we have
been fighting things a little bit trying to get new investigators and trying to
rebuild the teaching here a little again. However, I have learned something
about never giving up on somebody. We teach this man named John, who is in
his 60's, and is just an awesome guy. He has been taught by the missionaries for
over a year now I think and has had a hard time because he reads and prays and
he doesn’t feel anything. (I have had the same thoughts and feelings at times)
and at the same time John kind of knows the church is true. Like he knows it is
he just doesn’t want to say it haha. This week on Wednesday, Brother Cardenas, (Ward Mission Leader) came with us and it was such an awesome lesson. So
awesome we invited him to be baptized this next Saturday. He smiled and said
yes, or he would think about it. Haha we were not having any of that though. So
we asked him to come to church on Sunday fasting and we would be fasting with
him to receive his answer. Yesterday was probably the most spiritual Sacrament
Meeting I have had on my mission and also the best lessons that seemed to be
perfectly tailored to John's concerns and needs. During the Sunday school
lesson the members were just perfectly on point with their comments and
teaching and the spirit was strong. I was watching John at one point and saw a
tear run down his cheek and I could tell the spirit had touched him. As for me,
the spirit doesn’t normally come in a strong manifestation of this burning
inside. For me it is usually clarity of mind to just have things make sense and
be calm. I hope John had this feeling and I can’t wait to see him on Tuesday
and set up for Saturday!!!!
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| Mikey and Baby Jayla |
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| Crawling into 1,000 degree attic to help move all the boxes out! |
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| About half of the boxes they carried down from the attic. Mikey still loves Spiderman! |
I love you all! I have been
studying faith and that is what we talked about in Sunday school. I have
learned that faith is the all-encompassing testimony builder. Nobody starts out
with a perfect knowledge of God. As we hope that God is there and loves us it
inspires us to act. That is what faith is. By acting God will bless us and we
see results and our faith will confirm our unseen hopes. The Lord has blessed
us with ordinances to help us to feel of this power strongly and to further
progress ever closer to him. If you have doubts, that is awesome. We should
have doubts and questions, if we all had a perfect knowledge the earth would
serve no purpose. Do not let doubts discourage you, let your doubts and
questions move you forward as you learn of true doctrine through the Holy Ghost.
We can only have faith in things that are true, therefore our faith, or our
rock as Helaman says, should be on Christ who is a sure foundation. I hope to
be able to build my foundation as strong as I can for the rest of my life to
where I become unshaken and I hope to be able to endure all things as Joseph
said in the Articles of Faith. I love you all have a great week. Be good believers,
do good to fellowmen!!!
Elder GREEN
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| Tulsa's "Sacred Grove." |
