New Comp...Same Hard Work

Elder Taylor is my new comp and he is great. He has a good sense of humor, works well, has been out for nine months(he came out in my mission group from the MTC), cleans good, and is happy to be out here. He is from Draper, Utah. Neither of us are senior comps. For two reasons: 1. we have both been out the same amount of time. 2. in this mission our president decided not to have senior comps at all because then the junior comps would just blame everything on the senior comps and he thinks that after three months everyone is equal. I had to teach the Gospel Principles Class lesson with only two minutes notice. The zone leaders are always bugging me about numbers and telling me that my numbers are not high enough....tell you what, I'm gettin tired of all these numbers. I wish I could just go out and work. As of right now we don't have any investigators with a baptismal date but we are working on a few. I don't know I guess I just feel a little overwhelmed and a little stressed but I'll work it out and things will get better.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! MARCH 15TH

He's the MAN! The teenager is no more.

The Holy Ghost

Last night we went to this guy's house who has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot and has been having some really good questions. He had some concerns about the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost because he thought he had already received it. He also wanted to know our opinion on why the Book of Mormon was necessary in comparison to just having the Bible. We shared Matt 18:16 (or something like that) that talks about "by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established" and a bunch of others, and showed him how they support each other like Matt 7:14-15--- 2Ne 31:17 and others. That helped him out. Then to address the Holy Ghost topic we shared Acts 8 and explain that it has to be by the laying on of hands. We can feel that Holy Ghost prompts us or bears witness of truth before we have the gift but it is not constantly. Then I shared some other things. I shared that Christ would not give the commandment to be baptized of water and of fire (The Holy Ghost) if we already had it. But he gave the commandment because it was something we had to willfully "DO". It wouldn't just happen to us. That made a lot of sense to him. Also I compared the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost (that fire inside us) as a constant burning flame, that will help to keep us clean after we are baptized. To end... when I was there we prayed a couple of times so he could know if what we were teaching was truth. I did not feel like anything that came out of my mouth that night was from me but that the Holy Ghost was there telling me what to say. It was a great experience.

The Back Pack That Got Stolen

 

8 Month Mark

We had a baptism, a boy who is 13, everything went well and he got the priesthood too. He has a very short attention span (sound like anyone you know... ha ha...me?) He has been adopted into the YM very well so I think he will do just fine if the ward keeps that up.
Time is just zippin by out here, 8 months today! Wow!

3 Squirrels: Squirrel in a Box, Squirrel on a Stick, Squirrel with Silly Hair

3 Small Thoughts

1. Last Sunday I felt like I needed to get up and bear my testimony. I had been struggling with some things and I don't know of anything that could have helped me more. When we don't bear our testimony, we run the risk of losing it. So bear it whenever you can.

2. Saturday was really cool because I got to go back up to Gloversville for the baptism of the girl I was teaching there. It was such a neat experience to see her from the beginning...where she has come from to where she is now. She has made so many good changes in her life.

3. I'm really sad cuz our only really good investigators canceled for our appointment tonight and I really wanted to meet with him.