Pres Ames Interview, Rescue visits & Elder Cardon

4.18.16

This week we had interviews with President Ames. It was my last one

with him! I had a beautiful interview with him and I left with more

energy and a feeling of peace and love in my heart. He is an

incredibly inspired man and has so much love for God and for his

missionaries. I will miss him very much. He has played a big part in

my life and I will never forget him!

  This week we also had awesome rescue visits (where we go and visits

less-active families in the ward) with our ward mission leader and

another brother in our ward. I had the chance to go with our ward

mission leader. We first tried by a couple of people by had no

success. The success we did have came in between visits. The first

teaching opportunity we had came as we were walking back to our car.

We saw an older lady getting out of her car and we went up and talked

to her. We were able to share the Book of Momron with her as well as

pray with her. She was a very sweet lady and I hope she feels the

peace and hope that reading the Book of Mormon brings. Our other

opportunity came as we were driving to one of the families we were

going to visit. We drove by this house were a man was playing outside

with his dog. As we passed his house our ward mission leader said he

had a feeling that we should go and talk to the man. He said that he

had another Book of Mormon in his house that we could go and grab. We

stopped by one more person and then went and grabbed the Book of

Mormon. When we went back to his house it had gotten dark and he had

gone inside. We decided to knock his door anyways. He answered the

door and our ward mission leaders shared the Book of Mormon with him.

I was then able to bear testimony to him that this is Christ's

restored church back on the earth again. It was a really cool

spiritual experience to have with our ward mission leader. We are

hoping to teach him in the near future. I am grateful for the

prompting of the Holy Ghost and for a Ward mission leader who listens

to those promptings.

  We also had our stake conference this weekend. Elder Cardon of the

seventy came to our stake conference and was amazing! He was a

powerful speaker, and is very in tune with the spirit. He taught about

how important it is that we have true doctrine in our church, and that

having faith in true principles of the gospel and applying them is the

only way you can obtain real salvation. He also testified of the

importance of following the Holy Ghost in all aspects of our lives. He

told some pretty cool stories of how he taught his children to follow

the whispers of the Holy Ghost. It was such a blessing to be able to

hear from elder Cardon!

  Well I think that is about it for this week! I love you all and

testify that this really is the only true and living church on the

face of the earth.

Love,  Elder Griffin