Well!... This week had its ups and downs, as for Gwen we had
a lesson with her Tuesday with the crafts and hands on stuff and it went really
well. She really paid attention and participated and it went well but she still
said I don’t feel old enough to be baptized. then on Saturday we had a lesson
at her mom’s house hoping if her mom had a positive attitude about everything
then she would see the positive side of having the holy ghost and her mom
helped us a little and the member we brought also helped a lot but she
just shuts down every time she hears that word and the family has really pushed
her to do it but I guess she feels like she’s cornered into it and we have
probably been bringing it up to much anyways so we are just going to continue
to meet with her and until she brings it up we won’t, we'll just take things
slow and hopefully when we or the other missionaries have a baptism next time
she will be able to come and watch and see its really easy, no bad is going to
come of it, and especially be able to feel the spirit and feel that she needs
to do it.
We had a lesson with Mary and Rodger this week again. We
talked for a while about non church stuff just to kind of see how they were
doing and how their kids/ families have been and stuff which was good cause I
think it goes back to "showing and letting them know how much you care,
before they care how much you know" so we talked for a while and my
companion was in a hurry to leave cause he felt like we'd been there to long so
the lesson ended up being rushed but we talked about the plan of salvation and the
stuff we did cover was good cause they didn’t agree with their own church's
beliefs on what happened after death and the stuff and it was cool to see the
understanding take place in their mind and things just click! Like children
that don’t get baptized and work for the dead and another chance for people
that didn’t have the opportunity to hear about the gospel and it was awesome!
And we have a temple (gilbert) that has just been built and the open house
tours are going on and we invited them to come with us and a bunch of other
people and it will be awesome when they can walk thru a temple and feel the
happy peacefulness in it :) random side note... sometimes I feel like a hippie
always talking about peace, love, happiness... but that’s what the gospel is
really all about!!
Sky and Katelynn are still planning on being baptized on Feb
15! We are filling out the baptismal form today and going to give it to the
girls to take to their mom when they get to see her next and have her sign it
so the permission is authorized. Last night we went over a few of the
commandment and the reasons of the commandments and blessings from them. It
really is amazing what happens when we keep all the commandments (easy as a
missionary ha-ha) but in our everyday life and every "rule" out there
is to help us not to hurt us or hold us back. Well, have a fantastic week and
share the gospel!!
Love,
Elder Stevenson
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