Servants of the Lord - Apostles and Missionaries

Elder Holland and Zone Conference

It has been over 100 degrees every day since the beginning of August. very hot. It was Elder Holland that came down and spoke to all of the Houston Missions. He talked about that this is the most important time of your life, he talked about using your time wisely dont even waste a second, planning, studying, and he talked about that we are going around and giving people the greatest gift and that he said that we are the most prayed for. we got to shake his hand. after we ate at Culvers and it was pretty good. It was about nine or nine thirty and we still had a two hour drive to get back to our area and our mission president was worried about us driving back so we stayed in Kingwood for the night at The assistants apartment and then in the morning we went to the mission home which is really nice and our mission president made us breakfast then we headed back to our area. We also had a zone conference and it was good and they talked about Hurricane preperation and about keeping our spiritual, mental, and physical healthy, we talked about inviting people to baptism.

Investigators
Cassie Seacrest

she is an investigator that we have been teaching she is married to a member of the church that is less active and they have a little son. we have taught them the first lesson and the second lesson. Last week we taught her about the importance of church and she said she would come to church. we were going to invite her to be baptized the next time we see her. Her mom has been in the hospital and has cancer so Cassie is going through a hard time right know.

Sister Yarbrough

she is a less active that we have been going over and seeing lately she has been trying to stop smoking so we are working with her and she wants to come back to church and she even said herself if we want to get her to church we have to give her a little push. like calling her two hours before or going to her door and knocking. we are going to teach her all the lessons so she can remember the basic docterines and principles that we teach.

Shannaon Lewis

We went over there yesterday and seeing if she has prayed and read the book of mormon. she said she has been praying but not reading the book of mormon. We said if you really want to know if this is true you have to read the book of mormon, ponder about it, and pray with a sincere heart and with real intent. We told her a little more of what the Book of Mormon is that it is another testament of Jesus Christ and that it goes and supports the bible. Know she said that she is going to read and pray about it. we sent a soft baptismal invitation but she said that they have been baptized except one of the teenage boys. so we have to let her understand about the priesthood authority. we are going to take there family on a church tour.

Nicole Carter

She is scared and a little confused because her preacher said that her soul is lost and a bunch of other stuff but she likes our church and she wants to keep taking the lessons so we are going to try to see her this week and get her prepared for the baptismal date that we have set.