This week was FANTASTIC. Lemme tell you about it.
The smoke is still bad here, but it's much worse other places in
Montana, so we still consider ourselves lucky.
Our Heavenly Father has seen fit to bless us and our investigators
this week, and it has made us very happy!
A long time ago, I wrote home about teaching a large group lesson to
multiple nonmembers with Elder Chamberlain. I do not expect you all to
remember, but it was a wonderful lesson! We committed everyone there
to be baptized. Present at the lesson was the King family. However,
the King family lived in the Billings East zone. Well this week we got
a call letting us know that they were getting baptized, and we were
invited to do a musical number at it. It was so cool to see this
family again. We got to teach them right at the beginning of their
journey to conversion and right at the end. The Elders there are
FANTASTIC and did so incredibly well teaching them. It all went
well... except when I forgot the words for a second haha, but the other
elder helped me recover real fast.
This week we had exchanges with the Laurel elders, and it was great! I
got to go to Laurel with Elder Muhlestein, and Elder Muhlestein's
trainee, Elder Jenkins, came to Blue Creek with Elder Emms. We all saw
a lot of miracles and success. I thank my Heavenly Father for
exchanges and the amazing miracles that are always seen during those.
Elder Emms and Elder Jenkins did GREAT work here in Blue Creek!
When we taught Pete this week, we spent pretty much the whole time
breaking down walls that are keeping him from progressing. We feel
strongly that his next step is to read the Book of Mormon! Anybody who
reads and prays about the Book of Mormon sincerely will gain a
testimony of its truthfulness! He has accepted the challenge and told
us he will read the Book of Mormon!
Our lesson with Mari and Yessi this week was so good! Sister Isakson,
a convert from the ward, came with us and it was so good to have her
there! Sister Isakson's testimony is so powerful. She testified of the
truthfulness of the gospel and invited Yessi not to hesitate, but to
accept the invitation to act and learn for herself. One of our
biggest encouragements for Yessi right now is to choose a day to be
baptized. It's not about the day she chooses, but about setting a goal
and trying to reach it. Yessi and Mari are amazing! They came to
church for the second time on Sunday and loved it!
We visited Pete the next day too, just to remind him to read the Book
of Mormon haha. He laughed and gave us candy (per usual. He won't let
us leave until we take some:).
This week, Sister Beadling's oven broke and she was in need of a new
one, so she asked us if we could keep an eye out for one. We posted on
the Facebook page, and by the next morning our members had located a
new oven and stove, and someone else had offered to pay for it! I LOVE
MORMONS! Where else in the world do you find a group of people like
this??
Saturday night we went out to teach Carlos and his family. It was WILD
haha. His kids are quite the crazy bunch, but they are also so cute.
Eventually his wife had to take the youngest out of the room because
she was showing off a little too much, but we still had a wonderful
lesson. Carlos has a spiritual sensitivity unlike anyone I've ever
known. He feels things strongly and acts on them. He came to church on
Sunday and unfortunately had to leave after the first hour, but he is
so excited to stay for all three hours next week.
At church on Sunday, I got to play GUITAR with the primary!! And it
was SUPER fun. The kids were singing super loud, so I had to play
pretty hard for anyone to hear me haha. Children are so innocent and
good. It makes me happy to be around such goodness. "No wonder Christ
sought the peaceful solitude of children..." -Jeffrey R. Holland
Yesterday, we began to teach Shaylee Leavitt. Shaylee is a young 9 yr.
old daughter of a member in our ward. Her dad is AJ Leavitt, who
actually served his mission here in Montana! We think AJ is pretty
cool, especially his huge beard. That's really cool. Shaylee is very
intelligent and picks up really well on the things we teach, she even
participates! Her father has taught her well.
Sorry this email is kinda boring haha. I will be home at the end of
this month, so you can ask me your questions then;)
Love,
Elder Thomas
OH, pictures. We have not been taking many pictures! We may try and do
better... who knows haha.
Sitting in Sister Kasper's seat in the mission office... things
around here are gonna run a little differently from now on ;)
Yay for district meeting!!
Smoke... blech.
TRUST HIM!
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