Weeding at the library

6.13.16

This last Monday evening we had an awesome FHE with our YSA group. We

got to go to a bowling alley with them. The event was a great success!

We had 41 people there which is really good. We also had at least 3

non members and a couple less actives:) It was the perfect activity to

fellowship. That is one of my favorite things about being in a YSA

branch, it's a lot easier for members to invite their friends too, and

that age group is a lot more open. We are hopefully going to start

teaching this guy name Christopher, who came to the bowling activity.

  This week we also had the opportunity to go and do service at the

library. It was a tone of fun. I love the feeling you get when your in

libraries, it's very peaceful and quite. Our job was to do something

called "Weeding". It's where you have a list of old books and you go

and locate them and take them off of the shelf, in order to make room

for new books. It was a lot more fun then actually weeding:) The

librarians are also very nice people, and we look forward to serving

more with them.

  The two people we are teaching are doing great! The nine year old

girl finally came to church this week! We got to church yesterday and

she wasn't there, so we gave her grandpa a call and found out that

something had come up. Well that didn't stop us from getting her to

church! We called a member that lived close to her and the member went

and picked her up. She had a great time at church and the ward members

were so good to her! The young women's president even order her a

Children's Book of Mormon and she loved it! She has a baptismal date

for July 2nd:) The other man we are teaching is also doing pretty

good. He has been meeting with missionaries for quite some time now,

but has always had trouble with take action and getting baptized. We

have had some really spirited filled lessons, but he still has fear

and has not committed to a date. Well the last time we taught him we

really focused on committing him to read from the Book of Mormon and

pray. The member we brought with us was awesome! We also had this same

member, brother Woods, follow up with our investigator during the

week. When we came back to teach him yesterday he had actually read

and prayed! He had a really open conversation with us and told us that

he was in the middle of making a lot of difficult decisions. We

focused on having faith and talked about how faith is a principle of

action. I also used that story you shared with me mom about the

firefighters and how God is always waiting for us, we just have to put

forth the effort to find him. We committed him to pray for the courage

to set a date and that we were going to set a date next time we meet

with him. He is so close to getting baptized! We are praying he gets

his answer. If he only knew how much happier he would be if he got

baptized and received  the gift of the Holy Ghost.

        I love you all and hope everyone has a safe week with all the

different activities!  Love, Elder Griffin