Dear Family,
We found out half way throught the week last week that this
PDAY would be on Tuesday again due to Zone Conference. We had our Zone
Conference yesterday and I will tell you more about that later.
So I got transferred to Ocala 2nd ward and my companion is
Elder Bennion and yes mom, haha he is my MTC companion which is really funny. I
am in a four man apartment again which makes me happy because the other two
Elders are Elder Craig and Elder Jensen and they are awesome! Elder Craig goes home this
next transfer and Elder Jensen is on his second transfer. He is being trained
by Elder Craig. Anyway, we play basketball twice a week here. On Wedensday
night we have a scripture class and play basketball with our investigators
afterwards. We play on Monday's too. Elder Craig and Jensen love
basketball. So its fun!
We have a couple things progressing in this area.
The members love to feed us here so I have to make sure I stay working out
haha! We have one investigator that will be getting baptized in September. On Sunday a Part Member family came up to us. This part member family's
Dad wouldn't let their kids get baptized but he has finally given permission to
get baptized. So we are going to start teaching her kids. One is 12 and one is
8. Miracles are out there. I told you all about the "Harvest" right?
It is where we offer to bless someones home basically and it brings the spirit
powerfully. The Assistants have been doing this a ton and they have found over
20 investigators each week for the last 2 weeks. So Elder Bennion and I decided
that we will make this something we will really start to use. Last night, we
set up a couple appointments to come back and bless the homes. And we contacted
this one man who was smoking outside of his house. We just started talking with
him about fishing. He was wearing a fishing shirt. Then we navigated to the
gospel and he was really nice but he wanted to stay baptist. After rejecting to
learn more we offered to bless his home. He accepted. We went in and asked for
things he is struggling with that we could include in the blessing. We then
gave the blessing and he felt the spirit. He then accepted to find out if what
we share is true. And we got a return appointment. It is an incredible tool. In
Preach My Gospel it says "When the spirit touches the heart, hearts are changed."
This mission is taking off.
At our Zone Conference I completely changed. It was all
about the Doctrine of Christ. President Barry told the story of Christ from the
last supper until his ressurection. It was very powerful! I have never felt the
spirit so much in my life. They shared statistics and success stories in the
mission. And seriously, this mission is about ready to explode. President Barry
is incredible! I love him so much! He has done so much for me! We had a
testimony meeting at the end of Zone Conference and I bore my testimony. I was
on such a spiritual high there was no way I wasn't going to. Elder Bennion and
I have also been listening to this talk by Elder Bruce R McConkee. He talks
about how it is wrong to seek a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. It sort
of took me by suprise, but it makes sense. We should seek to know what he has
done for us and appreciate Him...but we should seek to have a close relationship
with our Father in Heaven. He is the one we talk to in prayers. We dont talk to
Christ. We pray in the name of Christ because he is our advocate. When we say it in the name of Jesus Christ we acknowledge that all things are
done to the Fathers will and that we accept His will. I have really learned the
relationship of the Godhead this last week. I love my Heavenly Father. He loves
me so much! And I am very grateful for Jesus Christ and I love him. I can't
imagine how much pain he went through for me. I know that God is our creator
and Father. I know that he loves us so much that he allowed his only begottten
son to suffer something that would kill a normal person. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the Atonement and the principles to obtain the blessings of the
Atonement is faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion and the
sacrement, recieving the gift of the Holy Ghost and then continueing to repent
and come better through the Gospel or in other words, the Atonement. Some
Elders started asking people what they thought the Gospel was. And many said
happiness. Many said the Bible. Many said the Word. Many said Church. The
Gospel is so misunderstood in the world. It has been distorted by Satan. I am
so grateful to know of the fulness of the Gospel.
To comment on the remarks Mom made. I love that passage
in Matthew 20. I loved Elder Hollands talk about it too. It is incredible and
it shows the love of our Heavenly Father. The talk was absolutely incredible!
This next Sunday Elder Bennion and I get to talk in sacrement. We get to chose
a talk from general conference or something from the ensign. I am going to talk
on Elder Hallstrom's talk last conference about the Church and the
Gospel. And then in the third hour the Bishop asked us to put together a
30minute lesson on missionary work. Elder Bennion is going to teach the
Doctrine of Christ. Then we are going to watch the Bible video of Christ's
Atonement. And then I am going to do the same thing President Barry did where I
go step by step through what happened from the last supper until his
ressurection. And then I am going to share a quote in Preach My Gospel on pg 2
which says (paraphrasing) "As your understanding of the Atonement
increases, your desire to share the gospel will increase. You will feel as Lehi
did " a great importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants
of the world." 2 Nephi 2. I am so excited for it.
Anyways, I will write more to each of you individually!
My address is : just to make sure
2215 SE 14th Ave. Apt 58
Ocala, Fl 34471
Love ya,
Elder Wise
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