What a week! Sheesh, it absolutely flew by!!!
We had four investigators drop us within a two day span...... But a lady named Hannah accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon! We found her through Tracting, and she seemed to be going through a rough time. We testified of the peace and the joy we’ve seen through The Book Of Mormon, and the gospel. So we hope she gets a chance to read it this upcoming week!
We met a less active family, the Green’s, this past week! We are trying to get to know all the members of the ward, because our bishop has asked us to, and their are a lot of part member families. Anyways, Brother Green and I connected super well as we talked about hunting! It was super cool! We had a great conversation with them. They told us why they don’t attend church, and they made it kinda clear they didn’t really have a desire to, but we let them know that they have an open invitation to attend church! Brother Green seemed to like that, and we just invited them to attend. Brother Green wants us to come back so he can show us his man cave, so that should be sweet! Hopefully he feels Christlike love as we show him how much we care about them! It was a great visit!
While we were weekly Planning at the Poplar church building, we had a little crazy surprise! Someone started to pound on the window, so we turned around, and it was Sister Bertha! She saw our car, and thought it was the sisters, because she had driven that car when she served in Casper, so she came to say hi and found us. It was fun to talk with her, because we came out together! She filled us in on all of the past missionaries who are engaged and getting married so that was crazy to hear! It was so crazy that she bumped into us.
We didn’t have a dinner last Friday night, so some other elders invited us to a BBQ their ward was having for the “Be One” priesthood devotional with President Nelson. It was an absolutely incredible devotional! I’ve never had a solid testimony of the revelation on the priesthood, but this devotional helped me gain a testimony of it! What an amazing thing! Wow! The Spirit was so strong throughout the entire thing, and it was so cool to hear all of the testimonies of people who struggled with it. I love Heavenly Father for granting all worthy male members of the church access to His priesthood authority and power and temple blessings! What an eternal blessing that is to have these blessings from a loving Heavenly Father! I love Him so much for these gifts He has grated us!
This past Saturday was our car fast day, where we strictly walk. It was a really good day! We walked a long ways, but we saw some really cool miracles from it! The first amazing miracle started right before we left the apartment. We had an “El Libro de Mormon” sitting on a dresser, and I as I looked at it, I knew that we needed to take it with us. So we did, and didn’t think much of it. Later that afternoon we were Tracting, and on the last house we had planned to tract, a Hispanic Lady was our in her yard. We tried to talk with her, but she said from her bench she was sitting on, “No English!” We responded, “El Libro de Mormon?” (Yeah, honestly I have retained absolutely zero Spanish from middle school..... but I can still ask “where is the bathroom” so that counts for something!) She immediately came up to us, and we were able to pull out El Libro de Mormon, and give her that copy! Amazing! We wrote the Hermana’s number on a pass along card and gave it to her as well! We are getting her address to them this week. How awesome is that?! She seemed genuinely interested as soon as we mentioned The Book Of Mormon to her. The Book Of Mormon has power! Later that day we were walking past a Family Dollar, and we ran into two women sitting outside on the curb. We started talking to them, and turns out one of them was a less active member! We talked with them, and the less active girls friend accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon! We got her number so we can follow up with her this week, so that was awesome! We were walking on a little busier street, and a guy from across the street waived us to come over to the other side. We found a gap and ran across to talk with him! He was such a good guy! His name was Patrick, and we had a really amazing conversation with him! He talked to us about how much he respects us, and loves that we go around testifying of Jesus Christ! He told us how every single Mormon he meets has a certain light about them. We were able to testify to him that we have that light because we have been baptized by someone holding proper priesthood authority from God, and that we have the Gift of the Holy Ghost! Elder Trumbo came in clutch and read 3 Nephi 11 and Ether 12:27 to him, and he loved it! He accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon, and said he would read it! We had a return appointment with him at a local park, but he didn’t show up yesterday...... but we are hoping to get in contact with him this week! Such an amazing day! By the time we got home that night, our feet were dead, and we slept very good that night! Haha, it was a great day! I love walking around and talking with everyone!!
We were told a lady needs help moving, and were given her number by other missionaries. We called her, and set up a time to help. It was crazy...... haha. (This happened yesterday.) We had four of us there helping the whole time, and many other elders throughout the day. It was supposed to be a fast move, but when we showed up she had her whole house, boxes to the ceiling, packed with stuff! We were helping her from 9:30-4:00..... we knew we weren’t supposed to do service for this long, but we couldn’t let this old lady do this by herself. So we stuck it out to the end! By the end, we were sunburned, tired, but we knew we helped this lady as Christ would have helped her! Man that was tiring! I never imagine I would’ve gotten sunburned from helping someone move! Haha.
This past Sunday Sister Norman, a member from our ward, came up to us and told us that her husband is ready to learn more about the church! How amazing is that! She told us that she feels impressed that we are the right missionaries to teach him.... this made me so happy! Heavenly Father is trusting us with this sacred opportunity to teach this man, and we can’t be more excited! What a miracle! We are going to coordinate lessons with members present at the church with them, so that should be so sweet! Can’t wait!
In my studies this past week, I read Alma 28:14, which states:
We had four investigators drop us within a two day span...... But a lady named Hannah accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon! We found her through Tracting, and she seemed to be going through a rough time. We testified of the peace and the joy we’ve seen through The Book Of Mormon, and the gospel. So we hope she gets a chance to read it this upcoming week!
We met a less active family, the Green’s, this past week! We are trying to get to know all the members of the ward, because our bishop has asked us to, and their are a lot of part member families. Anyways, Brother Green and I connected super well as we talked about hunting! It was super cool! We had a great conversation with them. They told us why they don’t attend church, and they made it kinda clear they didn’t really have a desire to, but we let them know that they have an open invitation to attend church! Brother Green seemed to like that, and we just invited them to attend. Brother Green wants us to come back so he can show us his man cave, so that should be sweet! Hopefully he feels Christlike love as we show him how much we care about them! It was a great visit!
While we were weekly Planning at the Poplar church building, we had a little crazy surprise! Someone started to pound on the window, so we turned around, and it was Sister Bertha! She saw our car, and thought it was the sisters, because she had driven that car when she served in Casper, so she came to say hi and found us. It was fun to talk with her, because we came out together! She filled us in on all of the past missionaries who are engaged and getting married so that was crazy to hear! It was so crazy that she bumped into us.
We didn’t have a dinner last Friday night, so some other elders invited us to a BBQ their ward was having for the “Be One” priesthood devotional with President Nelson. It was an absolutely incredible devotional! I’ve never had a solid testimony of the revelation on the priesthood, but this devotional helped me gain a testimony of it! What an amazing thing! Wow! The Spirit was so strong throughout the entire thing, and it was so cool to hear all of the testimonies of people who struggled with it. I love Heavenly Father for granting all worthy male members of the church access to His priesthood authority and power and temple blessings! What an eternal blessing that is to have these blessings from a loving Heavenly Father! I love Him so much for these gifts He has grated us!
This past Saturday was our car fast day, where we strictly walk. It was a really good day! We walked a long ways, but we saw some really cool miracles from it! The first amazing miracle started right before we left the apartment. We had an “El Libro de Mormon” sitting on a dresser, and I as I looked at it, I knew that we needed to take it with us. So we did, and didn’t think much of it. Later that afternoon we were Tracting, and on the last house we had planned to tract, a Hispanic Lady was our in her yard. We tried to talk with her, but she said from her bench she was sitting on, “No English!” We responded, “El Libro de Mormon?” (Yeah, honestly I have retained absolutely zero Spanish from middle school..... but I can still ask “where is the bathroom” so that counts for something!) She immediately came up to us, and we were able to pull out El Libro de Mormon, and give her that copy! Amazing! We wrote the Hermana’s number on a pass along card and gave it to her as well! We are getting her address to them this week. How awesome is that?! She seemed genuinely interested as soon as we mentioned The Book Of Mormon to her. The Book Of Mormon has power! Later that day we were walking past a Family Dollar, and we ran into two women sitting outside on the curb. We started talking to them, and turns out one of them was a less active member! We talked with them, and the less active girls friend accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon! We got her number so we can follow up with her this week, so that was awesome! We were walking on a little busier street, and a guy from across the street waived us to come over to the other side. We found a gap and ran across to talk with him! He was such a good guy! His name was Patrick, and we had a really amazing conversation with him! He talked to us about how much he respects us, and loves that we go around testifying of Jesus Christ! He told us how every single Mormon he meets has a certain light about them. We were able to testify to him that we have that light because we have been baptized by someone holding proper priesthood authority from God, and that we have the Gift of the Holy Ghost! Elder Trumbo came in clutch and read 3 Nephi 11 and Ether 12:27 to him, and he loved it! He accepted a copy of The Book Of Mormon, and said he would read it! We had a return appointment with him at a local park, but he didn’t show up yesterday...... but we are hoping to get in contact with him this week! Such an amazing day! By the time we got home that night, our feet were dead, and we slept very good that night! Haha, it was a great day! I love walking around and talking with everyone!!
We were told a lady needs help moving, and were given her number by other missionaries. We called her, and set up a time to help. It was crazy...... haha. (This happened yesterday.) We had four of us there helping the whole time, and many other elders throughout the day. It was supposed to be a fast move, but when we showed up she had her whole house, boxes to the ceiling, packed with stuff! We were helping her from 9:30-4:00..... we knew we weren’t supposed to do service for this long, but we couldn’t let this old lady do this by herself. So we stuck it out to the end! By the end, we were sunburned, tired, but we knew we helped this lady as Christ would have helped her! Man that was tiring! I never imagine I would’ve gotten sunburned from helping someone move! Haha.
This past Sunday Sister Norman, a member from our ward, came up to us and told us that her husband is ready to learn more about the church! How amazing is that! She told us that she feels impressed that we are the right missionaries to teach him.... this made me so happy! Heavenly Father is trusting us with this sacred opportunity to teach this man, and we can’t be more excited! What a miracle! We are going to coordinate lessons with members present at the church with them, so that should be so sweet! Can’t wait!
In my studies this past week, I read Alma 28:14, which states:
14 And thus we see the great call of diligence of men to labor in the vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great reason of sorrow, and also of rejoicing--sorrow because of death and destruction among men, and joy because of the light of Christ unto life.
This is our call to be diligent laborers in the vineyard! We are all called to labor in the Lord’s vineyard! President Nelson just invited the youth in a super powerful devotional this past Sunday, to “enlist in the Youth battalion of the Lord!” What a powerful statement! I believe that this invitation is indeed for the youth of the church, but that we have all been called to labor in the Lord’s vineyard! I would invite you all to think about how you can be a better laborer in the Lord’s vineyard! He needs each of us to be fully committed, He needs you!! I know that we will all strengthen out testimonies as we better minister to our fellow brothers and sisters. I hope you all have a great week, I love you guys! :)
Love,
Elder Bailey
Pics:
1: Saw Sister Bertha!
2-3: found these while on our car fast.
4. Found this creepy squirrel while Tracting...... haha
5. The big move!
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