Whenever there is a holiday, missing your missionary is even more intense. We are grateful for those that took our missionary in and feed them... 5 times. As a mom, what more could I ask for. We are grateful for our missionary and grateful this is the last Thanksgiving without him. Love him and miss him but oh, so proud of him! Enjoy!!
Chapter 81:
1) I am pretty much a stay at home dad now so you can come by whenever.
2) It’s the Missionaries!
3) Hey guys, come by one Wednesday
4) Then Moses pushed the button
Hi everybody I have had a great weekend Providence. We are having a lot of cool things happening as we continue to work in faith and do all things that we can.
First off, we met a man that had been meeting with missionaries about two years ago and he has fallen off the radar pretty much. He just had twin baby girls and they have had a long couple complications but they’re both doing well now and he’s excited to start meeting with us again. The girls are old enough so they can take care of themselves and now they allow him to be able to sit down with us and we can teach him for the gospel and help him come closer to Christ. He has a lot of time being a stay at home dad and so he is really excited to keep learning and keep the commitments that we live with him read the book of Mormon and learning that it’s true.
Second, we had one of the coolest blessings from that I’ve seen on my mission. In Florida it gets dark at about 6 PM and when I say dark I mean completely pitch black. During that time it’s kind of hard to knock on doors and have people be OK with doing so because I have no idea who’s outside their people cause I don’t have lights and things like that and we have to try it we always stay safe and find areas that are well answer that we can be able to be as effective as possible. This last week at about 8 PM we had nothing planned. We had just met a really cool guy but after that we didn’t know what to do. While we’re driving Elder Stockham has a thought and we decided we should go in the visit a former investigator. We knock on his door and they have absolutely no idea who we are because it is so dark and there’s no light out front. After yelling it’s the missionaries a couple times they eventually look out the window and luckily I had my flashlight with me. After flashing on the light on myself they know exactly who we are as soon as they see us. They fling open the door and yell “oh he’s here right now you can come right on inside. He just sent down to have a meal, would you like a plate?” After we sit down and we have some delicious Haitian food and after that we have a good lesson and he’s halfway through the book of Mormon now and he’s excited to keep reading keep praying. We are seeing him tomorrow again and teaching we’re hoping to teach his mom as well. He is excited to learn and come to church.
Third, as were driving to one of our appointments I decided to call a former investigator that we had. We were meeting with him right when I got here and he got really busy and didn’t have time to meet with us anymore. We call him and before the phone even rings for the first time he answers and says “what’s up? He remembers us perfectly and told us to come by on Wednesday he set up a time right then and there and he’s excited to learn more so hopefully that works out as well.
Fourth, the Brandon stake had a stake conference this weekend and we got to see Elder Costa again. The adult session, as always, was really really good and he was at the pulpit explaining how we need to have family home evening, daily family prayer and daily scripture study and he was telling us how it shouldn’t be as hard as we always think it is. He said when kids are young you can read three verses and work your way up to a chapter or whatever the circumstance allows. Prayers only need to be 3-5 minutes. He also told us how we need to make sure in our personal scripture studies we personalize them to ourselves and he was telling about how we need to think about how we should liken ourselves to Nephi, Laman and Lemuel. He’s a very good storyteller and was able to really bring to life that first couple chapters of Nephi as Nephi is going with Lehi back-and-forth to Jerusalem, then into the desert and back to Jerusalem and back to the desert and how we are usually like Laman and Lemuel you wake up at five in the morning when your dad tells them “I just had a dream and we need to walk out to the desert for three days” and we would lay back over and say that I’m not gonna go and do. It was pretty good because he was making scripture study realistic and helping us to relate to the Scriptures better and he invited us to start doing that when we read the Scriptures. I thought I’d share that with you. The fourth quote specifically is from when he was telling us how a family he knew family had a family home evening and a young boy told how Moses crossed the Red Sea. After pharaohs Air Force was attacking and they built a big bridge and cross the Red Sea and then afterwards Moses hit the button and destroy the bridge to drown pharaohs army’s. It’s smart to always remember that family home evening we are having our children teach we shouldn’t take it too seriously. It was hilarious.
I love you all. I forgot to take picture but I love you and will talk to you later.
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