MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I’ll keep this letter short cause I’m going to talk to you in a couple days but this week was good. I want to start by saying thanks for going to the baptism of Dakota this week, please continue to be her friend. This week was a really good week. We had a lesson with Gwen and her dad does want to baptize her and she does want to be baptized! So we talked a lot about the importance of baptism and why we do it and had a lesson on that since the family kind of brought it up anyways. It went well and the best part was Gwen and her dad came to church on Sunday!! I was soooo happy when they walked thru that door. The dad, Matt, works the late shift, he’s a baker and works from 12-6 every morning and it’s a challenge for church but he said he plans to keep coming back so he is getting reactivated! We also got a new investigator! (They’re hard to come by up here lol) and her name is sky. She’s also 9. her parents got slit up and all the kids went to different houses and she is living with the old bishop so it’s really good and she wants to be baptized but the hard part is getting permission from the parents and from CPS. But we are teaching her the lessons and she is going to decide on a day and ask for permission for that day! On Sunday it was the Christmas program at church and it was pretty good. There were quite a few less actives we’ve been working with that came so that was a blessing! scripture of the week: Mormon: 9:21 21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.
Have a good half week before I talk to you!
Love Elder Stevenson
Merry Christmas!!
Well this week was fantastic!! there was miracles everyday
of the week, it may have been gods christmas gift to me and elder oakley! haha
ill start with last monday. we were having dinner at a members house and after
dinner they had some friends over and invited us to stay and play games with
them, so we played games and got to know them (mary and rodger), talked about
religion, missions, there churches, etc. then we asked and they said we could
visit them and share a message with them! so on friday we went over and started
talking and taught the restoration with them! and it went well and they
accepted a challenge to read from the bom and pray about it and said we can
come back. Tuesday we had a lesson with Gwen and were teaching her the
restoration and toward the end of the lesson a soon to be relative walked in to
borrow some ingredients and ended up joining the conversation and she laid down
question after question about life and god and bad things happening to good
people and we answered every one of her questions and she said she would like
to come and join us the next time we teach Gwen, (tomorrow). Wednesday the
miracle was getting to talk to you. Thursday we had a lesson with a less
active/recent convert fam and the lady said she was talking to her mom about
churches and said the were all about hell, fire and damnation but she told her
about our church and that its loving and accepting and good and she said she
would come check it out and let us visit! But we cant visit till the new year
cause shes in the middle of moving homes. On Friday we had that lesson i was
talking about earlier. on Saturday we saw a member family to let them know how
a referral went and a neighbor happened to swing by and we got talking and
shared a message and prayer and she said we could come visit anytime! sunday
she wasnt home so were hoping to swing by tonight. (there weekeneders) so the
only problem is there not always up here but hoping to move up soon. Sunday we
had a lesson with 2 boys who have a hard time learning and a relative was there
and was very curious about what we believe and we ended up having the first
lesson with him! :) we have sky on date for baptism for febuary so we will
continue teacing her and hope the parents will allow it and all will go good
with cps. when we see gqen tomorrow we are going to talk about it and decide on
a date for her too :)
love you all,
Elder Stevenson
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