This week was a pretty great week! We were able to finally get our investigator Mason to church!! After inviting him and reminding him about coming, we decided that we are just going to show up to his house on Sunday with a member and pick them up ourselves! The best part it worked! :) They loved church and hopefully now that we got them there we will be able to get them a bit more self reliant so they can be ready to keep their baptismal covenant! We also are going to start teaching another family this week all because Mason (a 9 year old kid) referred us to them basically. The mom used to meet with missionaries and she wants to meet with missionaries again! Her husband has an issue with Job so he has some doubts about religion and God, and he only speaks spanish so the Spanish sisters will be teaching the parents while we teach the children! We also committed Morgan & Dillion to be baptized this week as well! They accepted and are a little timid to make such a commitment but they are super prepared I pray that they will be able to overcome the trials that will be thrown at them to sway them away from there decision to be baptized. We cover the YSA ward up here as well and the work in that ward is pretty slow, which we have been praying to pick things up in that ward and we have truly been blessed to actually find people that are YSA investigators! We taught one of them Alex for the first time this week and the spirit was really strong. He is looking for alot of answers and after talking with him about the restoration he feels like this is the right path and we gave him a soft commitment to be baptized as well so hopefully he will continue on the path that he is on!
This week I had the opportunity to give my first District meeting as a district leader. The majority of my training that I gave consisted of when we have innocent like faith we often put alot of trust in things, which sometimes can cause us to be very very vulnerable when things happen. This is the kind of faith that leads us to be uncompromising in our faith that the Savior will provide. I have found that various circumstances sometimes come in and compromise our faith. On a missionary standpoint the area you are in, the weather, your companion, etc. all can compromise our faith to find, teach and baptize people. This leads me to wonder what compromises our faith outside of our mission in the circumstances of life. As I pondered this I grew a deeper appreciation of the role of Agency. and as well as how vital and important it is to make our Worship. ( things like prayer, scripture study, church meetings) really meaningful and valuable. These are the things that will put on the armor of light around us to not allow our faith to become compromised in any degree!
I hope we can all ponder and let the Spirit instruct us how we can make our worship enhanced with deeper depth, understanding, and edification. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is true and it is only as good and helpful in our lives as we exercise our agency and let it!
2 Nephi 2:14 "And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon."
I hope we can all be agents to act and get more out of our worship.
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My favorite Service Missionaries!
Elder Loveland: he serves at the DI in Nampa Idaho
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| Elder Phillipps: he serves at the DI in my old are in Boise. |
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| The District!
left to right: Standing :Sister Viallion, Me Elder Gerrard, Elder Vilchez, Elder Anderson, Elder Reid,
Elder Rymer, and Elder Alba. Sitting: Sister Lopez, Elder Blevins, and Elder Dean
Missing: Elder Nicholas, and Elder Lopez
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We got to meet with all the Young Service missionaries in the Boise area! They are such wonderful people! Since they cant serve full time missions they do service at various places in boise for at least 6 months!
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