A Growing Testimony

Investigators

Things have been great this past week. Barbie is on track for her baptism for the 29th. Yesterday we found out that Roy passed away which was a great loss to her but she is comforted from the knowledge of the gospel she has. That she knows where he is and what he is doing. At least Roy wont be struggling anymore with any of the sicknesses or pains that he has. Also another less active sister Carter also came to church which was really good. she has not been to church in awhile. Also some other investigators came to church which was way good.

 

We have been teaching Carry who is the mother of a recent convert Amy and we are teaching Carry's son Josh. They are progressing pretty well.

 

Transferred

On saturday we got the calls for who is getting transfered and who is staying and I am leaving Buna to a different area. I dont know where I am going until tomorrow at the transfer meeting. 

 

Sick

Funny story- When I got your e-mail last week and read it and you said to go get a flu shot, right after I came over with a sickness, for the past week I have been sick and also my companion has too. I have not gotten a flu shot yet, but when I recover I will get a flu shot. I have been sick with a sore throat, congestion. coughing, and sweating at timess more at the nighttime. But I am finally getting over it right know.

 

Testimony

Since i have been on my mission my love has increased towards my savior who is Jesus Christ., who is the redeemer, the life, the light, the truth of the world and he is the way the only way. I know that he suffered, bled, and died for all of us so that we can return with our Heavenly Father in his kingdom with our families for all time and eternity. I know that he will always be there for us, he will never let us down. I know that as we get colser to him we can find peace, happiness, joy, rest, and he will lift up our burdens and make them light. Oh how grateful i am to know this.

Patience a Christlike and Missionary Quality

Texas Missionary Influx

Yeah Our mission will be getting about 100 more missionaries. they will be start to coming out at the end of january. That would be so crazy to train to missionaries at once. 

 

Progress Towards Baptism

Barbie is going to be baptized on decemeber 29th. we are very excited for her, she has quit drinking coffee know we just need to work with her stop smoking. We have been over there a lot because roy is getting really weak from the cancer.

 

Carrie Eaves

Another investigator we have been working with is carrie eaves. Her daughter amy eaves is the only member in the family. she has been asking alot about baptism and confirmation. we went over there with the Mccains. She is having a hard time grasping that we are the only ones that have the priesthood authority, she comes from a pentecostal background. She has been readisng the book of mormon and praying about it which she is slowly getting a testimony of the truthfulness of it. I know that she will eventually join, we just got to be patient with her.

A Step in the Right Direction

Barbie's Baptismal Date and a Strong Less Active

Welll we met with barbie and we set a date for her to be baptized it is going to be the 29th of december so we are very excited for her. also some other cool things happened this past week. one we met with a less active member that we have not met and he has not been to church for a while. we saw his car home so we decided to go and see him. he ivited us in and he had his daughter over from Allen, Tx. They had us over for dinner. we read from the book of mormon which was way good. he actually has a strong testimony of the gospel still. a lot of people that i meet that are less active don't really have that a strong of a testimony and he did. we invited them to church but they said they were going to go to a different ward. but on sunday about a few minutes in the meeting we saw them walk in. Me and my companion just lit up when we saw them come in. Also Carrie another investigator we have been working with came to church also and she came to the christmas devotional that was broadcasted at the church, she liked it. I loved the devotional the first presidency gave really good talks.

Roy's Baptism

Roy's Baptism: A Multiplicative Baptism
Guess what? Roy got baptized. it was so great, the bishop had top be dunk him under like three times because he did not get totally immersed under the water. it was a really great program. great talk by brother McCain. Amy Eaves a recent convert gave her testimony about the gospel it was so powerful, it truly strengthened her testimony. He got confirmed the next day at sacrament meeting. We are working with his wife trying to get her to stop drinking coffee and off the cigarettes. we are working for December the 8th for her. She really has been working on getting her genealogy done. she really wants to go the temple and do baptisms for the dead for her ancestry which is really neat. Also Amy is the only member in her family. Her mom and her older brother came to the baptismal service and they both loved it. Amy's mom came to church the next day and her brother would of but he already had stuff going on. we are going to start working with her mom who wants to be baptized and start working with her brother too. 

The Problems of Our TimesWe went over the Longs and took the bishop with us and taught about the word of wisdom because sister long is so much into nutrition. we found out that brother long chews and he has tried to quit many times but has failed. so we are going to teach them the stop smoking lesson which also helps people who chews. they are investigators that we found during the hour of power. They have been reading from the book of mormon. 

Salvation: A Step Away

Baptism a Step Towards Heaven

Hey guess what Roy is getting baptized this saturday we are so excited than the next week barbie is going to be baptized. Roy has been really good. He has not smoked for the past two days and his interview is tomorrow night. we are so proud of him. we know that heavenly father has heard the many prayers for him and is with him. we have been going over there and trying to get ready for his baptism. we want to make this a special day for him.

 

Zone Conference

Oh yeah this past friday we went to vidor and we had a zone conference. were the beaumont and the orange zone combines and president crawford come and speak to us and other people it was really good. we learned many fascinating things about the book of mormon, and about the apostasy. we talked about how important it is to have member present lessons and we talked about how the members can fellowship there friends and neighbours and over time that they will ask questions and get interested and most likelly they will join sometime.

 

Prophecies and the Book of Mormon

we went over to the carrols/lyndeckers and talked about some of the prophecies that joseph smith had. one of them he said "you see only a few prietshood bretheren here but this will fill north and south america, it will fill the whole world. and we can see that becoming fulfilled today. another one he gave a prophecy in december 25 1832 about the civil war. the one in the introduction of the book of mormon. he told the bretheren the Book of Mormon is the most correct book on earth and if a man abide by its precept the will get closer to God than by any other book." I have come to known that be true as I have read it over my mission. It seems like he they are getting closer to coming to the truth of the book of mormon and the prophet joseph smith.