2.15.16
Today is the start of another transfer, and we learned that I
will be
staying with elder Thomas for one more transfer! I haven't
stayed with
a companion for more then 2 transfer for a while, so it will be
a nice
change.
This week we learned quite a bit of sad news. Two of our
investigators, Larry and Lisa, are moving in a couple of weeks.
Which
means that we they will probably get baptized in the new ward
they are
moving to. We were pretty bummed, but they both fell like it is
the
right thing to do. We are going to help make sure that the
bishop and
missionaries in their new ward gets contacted, so that they are
prepared to receive Larry and Lisa. Hopefully they adjust well
to
their new ward:)
This week I also had another crazy things happen. We had
just got
done teaching a recent convert, and we headed to the church to
do some
last minute planning. As we got out of the car, I realized that
I
didn't have my I Pad. I remembered putting it on the side of the
truck
bed, but couldn't remember if I ever put it in the car. We drove
back
to the neighborhood where we had taught the recent convert and
found
it in the road. I picked it up. The case had a couple tears, but
nothing to bad. Then I opened the case and the screen was all
cracked.
Elder Thomas looked at the back of it in the light and could see
a
light tire mark. It had either fallen under our tire, or another
car
had run it over:( It was pretty crazy, but luckily I was able to
get a
loaner for the time being!
This week we we had our zone council. I was pretty
anxious going
into is, because I really wanted to make it a spiritual,
unifying
expire nice for our zone. We got to the church and started
setting up.
As we were setting up, we had grabbed a TV from the library to
show a
video. We got the tv into the room and plugged it in. We
realized that
we needed a different tv. I went to move the old tv, but for
some
reason didn't remember to unplug it:) It starting fall off the
stand
it was on. Luckily I was able to grab it with one hand, barley
stopping it from hitting the ground! Everyone was dying laughing,
I
was just glad that I was able to stop it from hitting the
ground! It
was a small tender mercy for sure. The rest of the zone council
went
really well. Elder Thomas started out by giving a training on
how to
simply teach our investigators the doctrine of the Godhead. It
was a
great training and it generated a beautiful discussion. The
nature of
God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost is one of the most
important
things we teach and testify of as missionaries. Without a
knowledge of
the nature and purpose of the Godhead, their would be no purpose
of
use to come to earth, no need for a restoration and no way for
us to
have happiness now, and happiness after death. What a blessing
it is
to know that God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are real and
very
involved in our life's. Following his training, I was able to
give a
training on how to resolve concerns of our investigators. We
then took
what we learned and practiced teaching the Godhead to our
companions.
it was awesome! We have an amazing zone:) The whole purpose of
our
zone council was to help us becoming more persuasive teachers,
so that
we can bring more people unto Christ. President Ames really
wants us
to sharpen our teaching skills, because we were given a very
powerful
blessing from elder Christoffernson when he came to our mission
(He
came 2 months ago, I don't know if I told you about his visit. I
can
never remember what I write in my journal and what I email you
guys:))
This was part of the blessings he left us "That in our
teaching we can
be more persuasive, more powerful and that your testimony will
be
accompanied by the Holy Ghost, as well as your teaching, that
our
teaching will reach people more than ever before. They have the
right
to choose how they will respond [to our teaching and testimony]
but
your witness can be strong enough that they cannot disbelieve
it,
whatever they chose to do about it" What a powerful
blessing! It was
super neat. I am so grateful that zone council went so well.
We were also finally able to have a sit down lesson with
Ralph! It
can be super hard to keep him focused, he loves to go on random
tangents. Saturday morning we went to the church and picked up a
food
order for Ralph. We boxed up all the food and brought it to him.
He
was super grateful. We then were able to teach him the power of
prayer. He made a lot of good comments and we were able to share
unite
a few scriptures with him. We extended an invitation to have him
pray
every morning and night. He accepted. It has been really hard to
set a
baptismal date with him, because his house needs a lot of work
and his
priorities are fixing his house. In PEC Sunday morning our
bishop
decided that we are going to make Ralph's house a ward service
project. Bishop want's a list made of all of the things that
need to
be done and then he is going to reach out to the ward and find
someone
to fix each thing. It was awesome to see the ward get so
involved with
someone who isn't even baptized! He even made the comment that
they
aren't doing it because he might be baptized. It was so awesome!
I
love this ward.
Well I hope you all had a great
Valentines Day, and showed someone a
little extra love:)
Elder Griffin
Here
is my cracked i Pad
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