and it truly has been another amazing week! Let me tell you about it.
We were able to teach Janet five times this past week, and it
was amazing! She has been struggling with finding time to read from
the Book Of Mormon, and says whenever she sits down to read it,
something interferes. Throughout our lessons this week, we read the
Book Of Mormon with her and had some really good lessons! That was
our main focus throughout all the lessons! Our last lesson on
Saturday evening was amazing! We were able to bring our Bishop with
us, and he was perfect for the lesson! Our focus was on coming to
church. She has been struggling a lot with attending church because
of her past experiences with going to other church's. We were able to
ease her fears and worries a little bit as we talked with her about
it. We read Moroni 6:5-6, about meeting together often and how
important it is to partake of the Sacrament each week in remembrance
of our Savior Jesus Christ! I love each and every week being able to
partake of the Sacrament, it is such an amazing thing that we have!
After we read these scriptures, we were able to testify and promise
Janet that she would feel welcome, loved, and at peace if she attended
church! She was still feeling hesitant, so we read the sacramental
prayers in Moroni 4 and 5, and we had her read it. As soon as she
started to read them, the Holy Ghost filled the room so strongly! She
had to stop reading it a couple of times to grab a tissue, she told us
that she felt the Spirit so strongly, because she hasn't partaken of
communion or Sacrament in three years. She has such an amazing desire
to come to church, she just has to overcome that fear to have the
confidence and faith to attend. She told us that she wants to read
through the Book Of Mormon, so we invited her to do so daily. We
promised her that as she does so, she will feel happier and gain a
testimony of the Book Of Mormon. We also promised her that she will
have that desire to attend church, and her fears will be strengths.
It was so amazing to see the Spirit work with her. The greatest joy
that we see is seeing people change, it is so amazing! There is
nothing else like it! I know that as each of you read from the Book
Of Mormon daily, and as you attend church each week, truly thinking of
the Savior, you will be able to strengthen your testimonies in this
restored gospel! You will be able to resist all the temptations that
the adversary places before you, and you will be so much happier in
your life! I know this to be true!
Elder Tippetts and I were able to help out with the Wyoming
Breast Cancer Awareness Race this last Saturday! We were given free
t-shirts for volunteering, and we guided traffic so the runners didn't
get run over! It was a pretty good place to volunteer! Being
involved in the community helps people trust us more and know we are
just normal people. As people ran past we cheered them on and they
all noticed we were missionaries, it was sweet! Elder Tippetts and I
were looking pretty fly with our safety vest on! I'll send some pics
:).
This week we went on exchanges with Elder McFadden and Elder
Bush, I was able to go with Elder Bush! One of our goals for the
exchange was to talk with everyone. We had two amazing experiences
while we did so! We were our visiting people, and we were going to go
and drive to another part of the area when we saw this punky teenager
riding his longboard on the side of the road. We stopped as we drove
past and rolled down the window and started to talk to him! We
testified of the Book Of Mormon, and asked if there was a time when we
could share that message with him. He told us he was headed to
school, but we could come back to his house at 3:30, so we went later
and talked with him. He is such a good kid! We had him read Helaman
5:12, and after he read it, he told us "that's powerful!" We promised
him that as he read from the Book Of Mormon, he would feel peace and
happiness, and feel that powerful witness of Jesus Christ whenever he
read it! He accepted a Book Of Mormon, and we scheduled a time to
meet with him next week, it was incredible! Even the roughest looking
people are ready to hear the Gospel, I have such a strong testimony of
it! The other experience we had was when we were stuck in traffic
next to a school, and we rolled down the window and started to talk
with a family next to us. We asked them if they knew about the Book
Of Mormon, and testified to them that it would bring their family
happiness if they read from it. We handed them a copy through the
window, and they said they would read it! It was amazing! Talking
with everyone is such an amazing thing, I know Heavenly Father sends
us elect people as we put forth the effort to talk with everyone we
can!
We had interviews with President McMurray this past week, and
it was so awesome! During our interview, President and I talked a lot
about our missions Book Of Mormon reading challenge. President and I
are studying the same thing, The Doctrine of Jesus Christ (Faith,
Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and
Enduring to the End). It was so amazing to compare our markings in our
Book Of Mormon's side by side! We had almost identical markings, and
it was amazing to see how much The Doctrine of Christ is throughout
the entire Book Of Mormon! We also talked a lot about how we can help
Janet! It was amazing to seek his advice so he can help out with it.
I love President McMurray! He is such an inspired man.
I am so grateful for being on my mission, and I'm so grateful
for Heavenly Father helping me be a tool in His hands to bring others
unto Jesus Christ and His restored Gospel! I absolutely love it here
in Cheyenne, and I can't wait to see the many miracles that are going
to happen throughout the rest of this week, I love you guys so much!
I hope you all have an amazing week! Just remember how much the Savior
loves you!
Love, Elder Bailey
Pics:
1. Breast Cancer awareness race!
2. Found this on the way to exchanges, hopefully I win! Haha
3. Interesting things like this while Tracting!
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