December 10, 2013- ...the people that we found this week are yearning to change. K wants to get rid of his alcohol dependency. D has gotten off alcohol completely! and is working hard to loose smoking. And then J is carefully growing more and more in the gospel. She enjoys church more and has told us that she feels the difference in her patience with her autistic boy as she reads and prays often...
Sunday, December 22, 2013
The Bible Bashers
November 26, 2013 - Transfers came and went, I stayed. I spent the holiday with the Pickerings. They are from New York and will be moving to the states this summer. Elder Pollock will be my new companion. The Hull Zone is also being split into two zones. I ordered Donner Meat, which I believe I've talked about before, if not don't look it up ...it is suppose to be "lamb, but not many would say it is. But it couldn't be as bad as Hot Dogs.
Any ways, as we were walking to our flat one night a child, no more than 10, began to yell at us mockingly, "Bible bashers! Jesus Believers! and laughing and just generally mocking us. His sister was 4 years younger, caught on after a few more chants by her example of a brother and the parents were just on their porch drinking a lagger. The young boy then began to sing a chant about how we were idiots and the Christ was a fairy-tale, that he just died and was nothing now and we are stupid believers. That stuck the most. We didn't think much of the taunting and we just continued into our building. When we got in the flat my heart went out to the boy and the younger sister. "how could they say that? What child would hold that kind of conviction? What is there I can do to help him?" so many questions I had no answers too come to my heard, and some hostile to the parents for such teachings for surely the boy didn't learn it by his own understanding.
(they aren't only Bible bashers, and proud of it- they know their Book of Mormon too!)
The Restoration
November 4, 2013...we were looking for apartment 57, but right where it should have been there was an empty lot...frustrated Elder D wanted to leave, but I just said I wanted to know why it was gone...lot's knock the ones next to it...so we did just that and on 59 we found Martin...We told him on the doorstep that we had an answer for some of his concerns if he would like to listen for 5 minutes (: We've taught him twice since Tuesday.
Halloween we had to be in by 6:30..Guy Fawkes Day...fireworks and parties. [Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605] Anyways we found a woman. She is such a smart person and when we found her she only had questions about prayer and why there were so many churches if there is suppose to be 1 God... Elder D and I shared the restoration and taught her about prayer and how she could develop a personal relationship through prayer with her Heavenly Father.
Click here to learn more about the restoration.
The Simplicity of Faith
October 21, 2013...it's getting tougher, but that's what mission does, isn't it? ...I have wonderful morning studies on Christ like attributes every day...One great thing that I love is that faith is so simple yet very complicated and praying for a stronger breeze to cool you down is an easy prayer for Heavenly Father to answer (: if there is faith (;
The Frustration
Oct. 7, 2013
Big news is that we have no investigators, well we have that family, but right now that is it. So that is kinda frustrating. We get some really good potentials, but then they just send us away after the first lesson.
The baptism was great though and then the next day Elder Dotschoat and I did confirmations. Wow! I really enjoyed that...
Saturday, October 26, 2013
The Family
The Family is one of the greatest gift God has given us.
From the very beginning the Lord has established the importance of the family organization for us.
Elder Tom L Perry of the Twelve Apostles said in the 2003 Conference:
“Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. ‘Children are an heritage of the Lord’ (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.” 1
That is why Elder Ivins was so excited to have a miracle in England.
While on a blitz in his area he and his companion found a young man knocking on doors. They chatted for about 5 minutes and asked if they could come in and share more about who they were and what they do.
"Sure" The man said. Then as they walked in
a woman walked in with a baby in her arms and a child.
BOOM!
A family to TEACH!
After a lesson prayer and how it is such a blessing to be able to pray and how it could bless them as a family and individual, they set an appointment for the missionaries to come back.
They gave them a Book of Mormon.
Such a nice little surprise...The Family.
Here are some tips from LDS.org on how to be the best family you can be:
- 1. Pray together
- 2. Have Family Home Evening (click the link to see what that is)
Sunday, September 22, 2013
The Logical Ones
...our last appointment for the day was to teach a 7 year old girl and her mother about our church. Her mother took the lessons in 2005.
"We are not sure that evolution is the thing we came from?"
...so we taught her the plan of salvation. The girl had intense questions and is very logical (maybe her mom told her to ask). This lesson 1, turned into 4, then 5. Then the whole family was listening. The father was skeptical at first, and when the plan of salvation lesson wasn't going so well we switched to the restoration by spirit. Incredible. The spirit was in the room. The oldest son prayed for the close of our meeting and he is 13. Afterwards, he was just beyond excited to have talked to God.
"How do you feel?"
"Good."
The kids were begging to have us back everyday. This was just the answer to our prayers.
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