Sunday March 27, 2011

Alright we had some miracles this week it was a week where we really saw the lords hand in the work. The Coolest one that i will right about is Tom Waggs, a 20 year old American kid i met him at the bus stop and started talking to him. He asked me for a cigarrette, and i said what are you doing with your life? he said he didnt even know i said what is something good your doing tonight? He went on to tell me that he was just going on a camping trip with his mates and was gunna do drugs and all that jazz i told him that god loves him and if he didnt do that,that night that he would feel better about himself. He said he would do his best, i got his number and i said i would give him a call. I called him the next day and he said on the phone that he gave into the peer pressure. he said we could go and visit with him so we went there and taught him how he could be clean. and it got on the topic of the word of wisdom, he said that he would never be able to give up smoking and drinking. I said tom do you want to change your life around he said yes, i said go get your smokes. With a sad face he grabbed his pack of stogies. i told him to smash him, there was silence and he crushed them. It felt like the spirit just hit all of our hearts right when he crushed them. He came to church on sunday and said he felt the holy ghost at sacrament so much that he wanted to get fresh air, we taught him in a room while sacrament meeting was happening and he was just saying how he like the christian church but feels something here that he has been looking for. we asked him to pray right then and after his 3 second prayer he said...ope...uuahh..its happening ahhh the burning is stronger, yep the church is true. "I want to deny it... but it wont let me!" haha it was awesome but just so everyone knows god answers the prayers. It was awesom as.

March 22, 2011

Man, That make me miss good old utah. Fishing sounds good, abe looks like he still has the gift of catching all the fish and eli just looks like he is freezing his little ones off. We are fishers of men, every day we are finding and ocassionally we are getting to teach some lessons. It was another good week for us we taught alot and got people to church. good things are going to happen in the northern beaches i will tell you that much. Me and Elder Tehei and me work very well together because we both try to talk to everyone so we contact anyone who is in our path. but sometimes they arent interested but lately we have been finding alot of good people who are actually looking for something in life. We have an investigator named robert he is russian he lived in lithuania when he was younger in a school with 150 other boys and the german gesstappo came in and killed everyone, he was the only one o survive. He has no family and he feels all alone. so right now the church is all this man has. Hes really good we have been having alot of success just no baptisms yet, That is sad that bishop fackrell is gonskyz he was the man, what does that place you at what is you calling in the ward? Anyways keep it real back home and let me no what else is happening. anyways laterz

March 8, 2011

Alright dude you are the man and Im not worthy. but i am stoked for
your new baby, ps that will be my year mark. I have had a crazy
mission so far president wont let me stay with a companion for more
than 1 transfer. My comp elder brough had way bad depression last
week to the point that he was having suicidal thoughts. So they had
him talk to the head psycologist of the church and they got his butt
on a flight home. It was sad because he wanted to finish but his mind
wouldnt let him. But he was honorably released which was good. I got
moved this transfer to manly which is right next door to our old area
haha president just wants me on the beaches my whole mission i guess,
my new comp is Elder Tehei he is a mauri from new zeland but they call
them "kiwi" his accent is whack az but he is the man we are going to
get some real work done in our area because i dont have to be
babysitting anyone anymore, I still love elder brough but his attitude
just put downers on everything but this new guy is really good the
ward is bomb az they already got some referrals for us. anyways this
week was crazy so the work was slower so i dont have much to report
but this next week looks more promising.

March 1, 2011

Whats up matey, we have just been finding and teaching we had to drop alot
> of our investigators this week with the faith that the lord will fill the
> empty spaces. But we were working with wendy i tracted into 5 months ago
> atheist and she was progressing to the point that she read the book of
> mormon, bilble, came to a baptism... and we went back and she said that she
> wouldnt ever be able to make a committment of being baptized but she said
> that she is grateful that we installed a belief in god for her and admitted
> to feeling the spirit. I then told her that we wouldnt be around very much
> more and then we got in the car. I wanted to cry, i felt like the biggest
> poofter in the world it was like someone punched me in the face, There was
> nothing else i could do. and it hurt me pretty bad. Marvin is a 16 peruvian
> that we have been meeting with but his family is baptist and wont let him
> come to church. We asked him about the book of mormon and he said it makes
> his heart burn when jesus christ speaks and believes that it is true but
> there is not much we can do because hes only 16. we just set a date with a
> brazilian surfer girl named yasmin who is very sincere and wants to get
> baptized but her visa will end shortly and we might not have enough time to
> teach her everything so that she understands. Alot of good things are
> happening but it just seems like the world is smashing down on everything.
> Still at the northern beaches, and it has been a while i want to see
> something new, its almost too the point where i have talked to everyone i
> see haha. We taught a man named rob last night and we taught about the
> apostacy and restoration using buckets instead of cups, and then when it
> came to the apostacy, he took his beer bottle and killed the
> apostles/prophets and so the church fell. We taught him of joseph smith and
> he thought it was amazing and said we touched his soul but he said he
> couldnt make a change like that. We have a goal that every companionship
> baptizes in march and its march and we havent been able to find anyone solid
> yet investigators are dropping like flies, and potential investigators are
> few and far between. My companion Elder brough has depression and they put
> him with me? he was telling me how he is just trying to survive for the next
> 7 months. he is doubting his testimony and feels like he brainwashed to go
> to the temple to make covenants... is was pretty crazy and then its me just
> like alright elder lets go find some people to teach and that is probably
> the last thing on his mind. He has mental problems, but president doesnt
> want to let him go home because he has made it this far so i have alot of
> responsibillity on my shoulders, anyways Keep it up back home.!
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