Denice!!!! How are you?? Tell the family I say hi. And, si Brian, puedo hablar le francais.
I learned so many great things this week. And the first, I just want to get it out there - on how we can invite others to learn about the truths we love.
It started out with our Zone Conference this week which was AWESOME. President Patrick is just amazing. He talked to us on how we can raise our vision, and work with the Ward Council better. It was just awesome. Its helped me raise my vision of what we're doing, and the spirit of it.
Then yesterday at church, the ward was really showing desire to share the gospel. There were many instances of people talking about it, in priesthood, sacrament meeting, and in ward council. for example, they announced that in a priesthood meeting on Saturday, the Stake Presidency gave the commitment to the stake to get 1000 baptisms in the next two years. The brothers were pretty excited about that! So we're going to now work on accomplishing that.
Brother Bergeron gave the lesson, and it was on President Uchtdorfs talk on how the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can fill our lives if we let it. Brother Bergeron gave strong testimony of it the whole time, and he even talked about ever since hes come back to church (its been a couple months) he's seen that difference in his life. He then shared a story of a woman who came up to him at work, and told him she needed help with some problems in her life, that really darkness was stronger than light in the last while for her. He got to share his testimony which helped her, but ever since then, he's been thinking about giving her a copy of the talk.
- First, that thought to share with her a talk is a prompting of the Holy Ghost. When we get these impressions or feelings to do something good for someone else, that's the Spirit. Let's follow it.
- Second, how easy do you think it would be to give that to her? Shes already come up to him and asked for help. Then, you come back another time, and tell her you've been thinking about something that can help, because you've seen it work in your own life. With love, it would be offly hard to not accept this invitation.
- Third, why not then ask her if she wants to meet the missionaries!!! "Hey, I have to friends from my church who share a message about this, how we can let light and peace into our lives through simple steps. Do you think we could share some of this with you?" To me (at least) that sounds so simple and welcoming.
So, family, this is my commitment to you. This week, think about someone that you could help, or invite. Listen to the promptings that come, as He tells us something kind we can do for them. And then invite.
Hah and Im sorry about last week, I feel like I left a different impression on the week than i wanted to. It was actually a good week last week, I just had a blank when i was writing! So I gave up hah.
This week was great though, we had less lessons than usual (or the last 2 weeks before) but we're just focused on quality now. We had a lesson with our friend Gabrielle, who is the wife of Jeremie Bergeron, a member whos coming back to church. Gabrielle is 20 and Jeremies 23, and they're so awesome. Gabrielle has never been religious or anything, but she's really liked what shes been seeing with the Church. So we had taught about baptism the week before, and then this week we came back and she received an answer from her prayers that its something she should do. She really wants to. We're going to be working now on them reading the scriptures every day, and helping them set a date.
Then, another investigator, Virginie, wants to get baptized as well now! She doesnt understand too much about our beliefs, but the Spirit was strong when we were teaching about the Gospel, and about the blessing of starting over, and being clean from all of our mistakes through baptism. We're definitely going to be going slowly, but she has a desire to start over her life. Its awesome!
We have a number of less active members we're working with, and its great. Great! And the ward now is filling all of the pews (how do you spell that?) in the church, for the first time in years due to so many less actives coming back to church, and the ward is really loving it. Ive heard that since January, this ward is really just loving missionary work.
Love!
Elder Austin Murphy
P.S. Where's the Patch guy from? I feel like I met him before.
P.S. S. S> S> S. S. s. Dallin! Good luck in the DR my friend! Teach some people for me!
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