This week honestly flew by,
it’s weird to think I’m writing again...... there was so much that
happened! Don’t know how I’m going to include it all, but I’ll try!
I’ll start it off with our Zone Conference this past week. We met it
the Trilby church building across the Fort Collins Colorado Temple, and
had an absolutely incredible meeting! I think I loved it so much
because it was a lot of the same trainings we received at MLC, so it was
another inspiring meeting to be a part of! President McMurray’s
starting training was incredible, and it’s what he learned from a
meeting President and Sister McMurray attended with a bunch of other
mission presidents and their wives. They had Elder Nelson of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles, and a bunch of other members of the 70. One
thing that stood out to me that he shared was two things that will
always protect us is 1. Read The Book Of Mormon every single day and 2.
Follow the council of the modern day prophets and apostles. Those two
things are honestly the two key factors that we need to have for our
testimonies, I know they can protect us! It’s so awesome to know that
we have modern day prophets who guide us through these rough times, and
to have The Book Of Mormon to lean on to always have that spiritual
nourishment every single day. What a miracle! Later in Presidents
training, he mentioned how important it is to send a weekly
report/letter to him each week. He said he counted up how many
missionaries had written him every single week for the past ten weeks,
and he said there were 17 missionaries in our whole mission who had. He
recognized the ones from the Greeley Zone, it was Elder Michels, Sister
Olsen, and me! I honestly didn’t know that missionaries didn’t do that
each week.... but President McMurray gave each of us these two nice
fancy pens. The little things pay off! In this case we got nice
pens...... but applying it to the Gospel is pretty much the same.
Little things like reading The Book Of Mormon and praying every single
day brings forth blessings that may not be apparent immediately, but
they do come! Throughout the Zone Conference they had members from
Walmart Pharmacy come and give flu shots to all the missionaries, or all
the ones who weren’t scared to get them..... haha. President McMurray
told us before hand to consider the safety of little kids and old
grandparents, so if we didn’t want to end up causing a death we would
get a flu shot. This was very persuasive for most of us! After all the
missionaries had gone, we finally went and got our shots with President
McMurray, it was probably the funnest flu shot I’ve ever gotten! We
were all just joking around and having a good time! The rest of the
Zone Conference was a lot of training for using Facebook. Elder
Nally bore his departing testimony because he is leaving to Australia,
and he did a great job, we’re totally going to miss him....... It was a really good inspiring meeting!
After Zone Conference, we started exchanges with the Sterling and
with one of the Assistants Elder McFadden. I went with Elder McFadden,
and we were on foot the rest of the night. We had dinner on UNC’s
(University Of Northern Colorado) campus with a YSA Member, and we were
able to speak with a ton of people on campus. It was so fun to talk
with people our own age! We gave all of the referrals to the YSA
sisters, so we hope they all pan out for them! We had a good rest of
the night and had a nice chilly night Tracting!
We
had another good lesson with Nyssa this past week, and we finished
reading 2 Nephi 31 about baptism, and we finished explaining to her
importance of it. We told her that she needs to make the decision and
the commitment to progress, so if she isn’t sure and hasn’t kept
commitments by the next lesson, we may have to stop visiting her as
frequently. It’s always sad to stop visiting Investigators, but
sometimes it’s just not time for them to have the heart to change. It
may take time but hopefully someday those people will decide to come
closer to Jesus Christ and follow Him. We also weren’t able to get in
contact with the people we have tracted into, but we are visiting them
this week to set up a time to meet! On the brighter side, we were able
to teach Parker Bentz and his family, the referral we received last
week. We actually had our lesson cancel earlier in the week, but we
invited them to attend a YSA baptism with us and they said they would
love to! They came an hour early for a lesson and we taught them the
Restoration. It was a very powerful lesson, and the kids loved it! I
can’t wait to see this family come back to activity! Our ultimate goal
with them is to get them to the temple to be sealed as a family! It
will be so amazing! I love it when the Lord sends us elect people to
teach, what a blessing!
Funny thing that happened
after the YSA baptism. The person who baptized the YSA girl forgot to
pull the plug in the font, and you couldn’t reach it from the edge of
the steps. I volunteered to try and fix our problem, so I ended up
taking a little dip up to the knees, but then it got jammed so I had to
stick my whole arm in to reach and fix it. Haha, that was an
experience! While everyone was congratulating the girl on being
baptized, two missionaries were watching another take a quick dip to fix
the problem! Just another day in the mission field I guess!
Yesterday we had exchanges with Elder McFadden and Elder Reiswig
in Windsor, and it was a pretty sweet exchange! I went with Elder
McFadden, and we put in the work! We had a little crazy morning due to
some issues picking up President McMurrays new car, but we were able to
go Tracting for the rest of the evening until dinner. Our goal was to
tract 50 doors, and we did that! But it was a little hard because the
people in Windsor are a little hard to reach. They aren’t to open to
learning more about the church, but we put in the effort and we were
able to hand out a few copies of The Book Of Mormon! Later that night
we had a long deep doctrinal lesson with a less active member, which was
very long and interesting. It was a pretty sweet exchange! I love
doing missionary work with Elder McFadden! He’s super legit!
I was reading in the first part of Ether, particularly Ether 3,
and verse 9 really stood out to me, (this is when the brother of Jared
see’s the finger of the Lord, then the Lord reveals Himself to him.)
9
And the Lord said unto him: Because of thy faith thou hast seen that I
shall take upon me flesh and blood; and never has man come before me
with such exceeding faith as thou hast; for were it not so ye could not
have seen my finger. Sawest thou more than this?
I
love how great of Faith he had in order to first see the Lord’s finger,
then to have such exceedingly great faith that the Lord couldn’t
withhold showing Himself unto the Brother of Jared. I hope and pray we
are all striving to have a little bit of the faith that the brother of
Jared exhibited to further our testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ, I
know that as we do so, by doing the little things such as praying and
reading from The Book Of Mormon daily, we can be blessed beyond our
comprehension! I would encourage you all to watch President Uchtdorf’s
Mormon Message “Shower Of Heavenly Blessings”. Heavenly Father has
blessings to give us, we just have to be ready to receive them. I love
you all so much, and I’m grateful for each and every one of you! Hope
you have a great week!
Love
Elder Bailey
Also
thanks mom and dad + the fam, jenna and mike, and Grandma and grandpa
for the birthday presents, can’t believe Im only going to be a teenager
for one more night...... crazy stuff! Haha love you guys! :)
Pics:
1-3: temple trip!
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