10/9/17 | Let it Snow!

  Well, it is snowing right now up here in Cheyenne!  It has been pretty good weather for the past week or so, but last night the temperature dropped and it started to snow.  We woke up with a few inches on the ground, and it is still coming down pretty good!  Crazy stuff, the snow is going to be fun this year!  Some members told us it is supposed to be a pretty rough winter this year, so we will see!  This week was a good one!         We will be meeting with Janet this week to see if she felt a difference from when we were teaching her daily, to a week without contact.  We will see how that goes, we are hoping and praying it goes well!  We did teach Travis a lesson this week, but he has been out of town since then.  The lesson went well!  He is reading The Book Of Mormon, and his mom was there listening to the lesson as well.  She is interested, so we gave her a copy of The Book Of Mormon and she said she would read it!  She lives in Florida, so we probably won’t teach her here, but still amazing to see someone who wants to learn more!  During our lesson we talked with him about his baptismal date, and that it will have to be pushed back due to some issues, but he is still keeping his commitments and progressing towards baptism!  We are praying he continues to progress as the coming weeks go by.

        We received a referral from Brother Weber, and it is absolutely GOLDEN!  He told us to go by the Moyte’s house and tell them that he sent us to talk with them about the Gospel.  We went over and introduced ourselves.  When they answered they seemed a little skeptical, but then we mentioned Brother Weber.  They immediately brightened up and let us in!  We had a great talk and got to know them really well!  Sister Moyte has 14 kids with only two sons left at home, their names are Tyger and Antonio.  We scheduled an appointment to come back and teach them with Brother Weber for the following day!  The lesson we had the next day with Sister Moyte and Tyger was so good!  We taught them the first lesson, The Restoration Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they were super interested!  They participated in the lesson and asked a lot of questions!  It was cool to see how the Spirit was touching their hearts, especially Tyger’s!  Some of his questions were so sincere, it was amazing!  One of them was, “how do I know it is the Spirit telling me it is true?”  We testified to him that he would know once he felt it. We explained that it was a feeling of peace, love, happiness, and comfort.  We asked him what he felt right now, and he said he felt happy! (He had a smile on his face most of the lesson:)  We testified to him that he was feeling the Spirit.  Brother Weber invited them to come to church this Sunday, to his family barbecue, and the sons to mutual next week!  They said they couldn’t go to the barbecue, but said they would love to come to church and mutual next week!  It is amazing to see how much of a difference members can make inviting investigators who they are fellowshipping to keep commitments!  The Spirit was so strong in their home, and we can’t wait to teach them this upcoming Wednesday!  The Moyte’s did make it to church this Sunday with four other grandkids we hadn’t met, and the boys are planning on attending mutual this week.  What a miracle!  

         We had MLC this past week, and it was a blast!  Literally all of my mission buddies were there!  Honestly, the whole meeting was pretty much a Facebook/Online Proselyting training with setting some key indicator goals for the mission.  It was a long portion about Facebook, but it was pretty good!  We have some good direction of how we can use Facebook in our Online Proselyting efforts!  As most of you may know, I set up my Facebook account to use in our mission a couple of days ago!  It is really weird to have and use Facebook for missionary work, but as Elder Bednar said in one of the Online Proselyting video’s, we are going to turn this trickle into a flood of spreading the gospel!  Spreading the Gospel through social media is a huge step in missionary work!  Like I said in my first post, I would invite you all to pray and ask how you can use social media to spread the Gospel, and heed upon the answer He gives you!  I know that as you do, you will see Jesus Christ’s influence more abundantly in your life, and see His light touch the lives of others!

         I love Fast Sunday’s!!  It was awesome to focus on our Savior, Jesus Christ.  I feel that it becomes more sentimental as we partake of the sacrament on Fast Sunday, and it felt like Jesus Christ is truly nourishing me yesterday!  I was able to bear my testimony about The Book Of Mormon, and it was so nice to feel that closeness with.  Elder Callister’s talk, “God’s compelling witness: The Book Of Mormon”, really stood out to me this last Conference and I was thinking about that yesterday.  In his talk he states,

 “The Book of Mormon is one of God’s priceless gifts to us. It is both sword and shield--it sends the word of God into battle to fight for the hearts of the just and serves as an arch defender of the truth.”

         This statement is so true!  I know The Book Of Mormon is the word of God, and that if you do read it and “...ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.” (Moroni 10:4)  I have read, prayed, and asked, and I do know The Book Of Mormon to be the word of God!  That is the promise from the prophet Moroni himself!  Heed upon it, and I can testify that it shall be given unto you! 

         I absolutely love serving the Lord as a missionary, and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have been given to do His work here in the Colorado Fort Collins Mission!  I hope you guys all have a great week this week!

Love,

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1. MLC

2. Snowy day today!