9.14.15
This week has been a busy week, full of wonderful experiences.
God has been so good to elder Jensen and I as we continue to transition to
covering two areas. At the begging of the week we were again able to go see
Karla and Grady. We brought along one of my favorite members brother Wright. We
taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ, the 3rd missionary lesson. The lesson
went great, and brother Wright shared a powerful testimony of how the gospel
has blessed his life. He even shared a little from his conversion story. At the
end of the lesson we had an open conversation with them and Grady said that he
has been very grateful for the lessons and has felt that they have helped him
gain a greater understanding of where God wants him to go. Karla also commented
that they want to be better at coming to church, as well as reading the Book of
Mormon together. It is always a great blessing to see the people we are
teaching come up with their own commitments and things they want to work on.
The mission president's fireside is actually next week, and we are praying that
Karla and Grady will be able to come to it. It would be so good for them to
hear a couple share their conversion story that is centered on the Book of
Mormon. We were also able to go see Bob. It has been a long time since I have
seen him, but it was good to be able to meet with him again. We did the usual
Book of Mormon reading with him, and then he opened up and talked about how he
needs to forgive his dad. We just listened as he talked about his concerns and
what was holding him back from forgiving his dad. Elder Jensen was also able to
share an amazing personal experience he had with forgiving someone at his
school. We are going to study and prepare a lesson for Bob about the importance
of forgiveness and help him understand how to go about doing it. I know
forgiving his dad, will bring him a lot of peace and happiness.
This week we also had a small miracle happen, that
made my testimony of the reality of a loving Heavenly Father grow so much. On
Thursday night we had just finished dinner, and we were about to go out and
start working the area. At this same time satan started putting a lot of
negative feelings about the work into my head and I started loosing motivation.
We got on our bikes and started riding towards the area we were going to work
in. I did my best to push the feelings out of my head. Well we got to this
street and started trying to contact people. As we were contacting we say this
lady by her car loading stuff into it and noticed a moving sign in front of the
house. We asked her if we could help her and she went inside to ask the owner.
Usually when we ask people if we can help them they politely say no, but this
time it was different. The owner said that she would love our help, and that we
were an answer to her prayers. She told us that she had been given a very short
time to have everything moved out of her house and that she wasn't able to find
very many people to help her. She put us to work packaging up all the food in
her pantry, we also helped her organize her garage. It was an amazing
experience to be able to be a tool in the Lords hand to help this family in
their time of need! They said they wanted us to come over for dinner at their
new house, and took down our number. We are hoping to be able to share our
message with them in the future. They are a very sweet family, and I am very
grateful that God put them in our path.
We are finding so many amazing people to teach, and I
know that this area is getting very close to having baptisms. This work is
real, and there really are people that God is preparing to receive the gospel.
I love being part of this work, and I love being able to serve and love people.
It brings me so much happiness to be able serve the wonderful people of Texas,
and to hear their stories and life experiences. This church is true, Jesus
Chirst is our savior and God truly does love each one of us. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Griffin
*This
is a couple days before transfers. The first on is elder Taylor and I, and the
second is my zone leader elder Webb (I was making a weird face for some
reason:)) They were both awesome missionaries!
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