What's up my people?? Happy Thanksgiving!!
I am grateful for all of you!
•We had our first
baptism here for Elder Walker and I in the Las Palmas Ward. It was the
wife of a member. Her name is Stephanie McArthur. She was a pretty golden
investigator. She grew up in Wyoming with a town of 60% LDS and always
said to her boyfriend and now husband that she needed to wait. Well she
was finally ready and her husband baptized her! All of the missionaries came back
that taught her and it was great. (see pics)
every missionary that has been involved with teaching Stephanie McArthur
•we are teaching
this awesome guy named Shawn. He is 18 and a senior in HS (see pics). He
loves being taught by us. Last time we left he said, "thank you so
much for sharing this knowledge with me!" He just randomly showed up in a
different ward one day because he was looking for a church and the missionaries
there referred him to us. He is the most humble, nicest guy. He is
getting baptized in December!
my man shawn
•I was reading in Alma this week in the
Book of Mormon in my personal study and I love 5:26 where Alma asks the people
after have been in the church for a while and everything seems to be going
good, "Can ye feel so now?" It made me think to myself and
reevaluate myself. Am I constantly thinking the thoughts, saying the
words, and doing the things so that we still can "feel so now" and
always be close to God? We need to constantly be having spiritual
experiences and they won't just fall right into our path, we have to work for
them.
•In District Council this week we had an
awesome discussion on "Sustainership." It's something President
Snow has been pushing with our mission, to sustain all of our leaders.
This is a life-long skill that we all need to learn. We have to always remember
that leaders are inspired. We can't let ourselves get offended or not
think something is wrong with our leaders. We are all imperfect humans
and have to realize that. We also talked about in the last days, we will
have to defend the not only the modern day prophet but also Joseph Smith.
I talk to at least one person on the street a day that cusses us out or is rude
because of some false thing they have read about Joseph Smith. We also
talked about why it is easier to sustain President Snow than other
leaders. We came to the conclusion that it's because our mission
president, President Snow, is consistent with his character and that people
sustained Christ because he was the perfect example of consistent, perfect
character. Consistency is a Christ-like attribute that we all need to try
and attain in whatever thing we are doing, spiritually or temporally.
the warm spring early morning sports crew
•The nephew of the great Craig Booth, Randy
Booth gave a talk with his wife in sacrament meeting in the Silverado
Ward. Let's reminisce back to the last time we heard a Booth speak, which
would be at Grandpa Ross’ funeral. Booth was going on and on which is
something that Grandpa Ross would not have liked and so that's when
Great-Grandma Terry pipes in with a "This guy's putting me to
sleep!" Well Craig’s nephew’s talk was very funny and didn't put me
to sleep. Since they are new in the ward he told the story of how they
met. Here are some funny quotes from his talk...
"Well
Thanksgiving is the only holiday I haven't spoke on so if there was a Pokemon
of sacrament meeting talks I would have caught them all."
"I
first met my wife at a young-single adult activity cliff jumping at Lake Mead.
She was the cutest girl there. This happened to just be when I finished
the whole P90X workout so it was pretty much game over when I took my shirt
off."
"I
did some flips off the cliff but I lost count of how many while I was in the
air."
"After,
she asked me to marry her but we went on a couple dates first."
"all of that was true except I asked
her on a date"
•The Las Palmas
sacrament meeting was all about music and of course they had a violin trio play
"I know that my Redeemer Lives" and I lost it. I could feel the
Savior right there with me, serving a mission along side of me. On a
mission you have a special opportunity to have experiences like that where you
know without a doubt that this is His work. I know Jesus Christ is our
Redeemer and knows each one of us personally. He wants the absolute best
for us which we CAN have by living His gospel as conspicuously as
possible.
ps Abby practice your violin.
I
love you friends and family! you guys are amazing and I am thankful for the
support I receive on my mission and all of the prayers I receive. I am
most grateful for the knowledge that the truth has been restored again to this
earth.
Love,
Elder
Faldmo
No comments:
Post a Comment