Good Afternoon everyone!!!
Wow, another week has already come and gone in the
mission. I can hardly believe it!
Life is Wyoming is great, as usual :). Things are going
really great honestly! We came into this area with a TON of investigators to
work with, and we just found two more! I am just so pumped to be here!
Life with my companion is great, he's almost always
sarcastic, so that's interesting. Not that sarcasm is bad, it's just hard to
tell when he is joking sometimes, but he honestly is really nice. He's
absolutely hilarious though and would be a perfect companion except he likes
the AC on ALWAYS. :) Apparently anything above 75 is WAAAAY too hot. Gosh I've
missed the heat, did you know that it's supposed to get in the 100's this week
here? I'm so pumped!
This week lets see, on Monday we had an awesome lesson
with Marci! It was honestly our first real lesson with her, we have seen her in
church but this was the first time really meeting her! She's a hoot, she
literally introduced her self by walking up to us, shaking our hands and said
"Hi I'm the problem." She's hilarious, a little crazy, but hilarious.
She is a recent convert that we are now giving the new member discussions to,
and she just loves the gospel, it's been so much fun to teach her! Today we are
going over there and are teaching her about temples, we finally get to use
those new pamphlets the church put out! I'm so pumped I've been waiting to use
them for two weeks now! Heck ya!
On Tuesday we mostly worked with less-actives, got to
know a bunch more and thankfully had some great lessons :).
On Wednesday however we had a lesson with BRIAN! Brian is
a former investigator that we contacted who is TOTALLY interested in meeting
with us. He was dropped a year ago because the elders tried by a few times but
weren't able to meet with him, thankfully he's just had more time to prepare.
At first he was a little standoff-ish, but then once he realized that we
actually aren't weird and actually believe the same things that he believes, he
was way more open :). Anyways after discussion with him a little bit about our
common believes I pulled out the Book of Mormon. It was kind of funny because
he immediately stiffened up and looked like I just pulled out a gun or
something.
When I asked if he would take it, he looked me straight
in the eyes and told me to explain what it is in two paragraphs. Holy cow the
spirit was so strong! Both me and my companion took the opportunity to then
share our testimonies of it and how we came to know that it is true, and explain
that it truly, like the Bible, testifies of the Savior and promised him that he
will come closer to Jesus Christ by reading and abiding by its precepts. :) He
totally commitment to read it! Fingers crossed that he will pray about it!
Thursday not much happened outside of weekly planning. We
mostly went around and did finding activities that day. :)
On Friday we literally did service all day. Except at the
very end but it was crazy, in the morning we helped someone break down a wall
:) tons of fun there, :) then we had bowling at a senior center here in
Greybull, then we did some service at the other senior center in Basin, then we
finished off the day with a couple active member lessons :).
Saturday was mostly contacting and teaching people that
our Ward council asked us to go visit, tons of fun and wonderfullness, just
not much to say about it.
Then finally glorious Sunday came. I just love Sundays
here. I get to help bless and pass the sacrament every week! It is just a
serious reminder of all that our Savior did for us and how important the
sacrament is. I know I said this last week but I am again truly thankful for
it. :)
Oh! Almost forgot, on Friday, that's right it wasn't all
service, we had a lesson with the Garay family. The really cool thing about the
Garay family is that only one of them really speaks English. The dad sorta
speaks it but his understanding is really low. Because of this my companion and
I now get to teach the Gospel in Spanish! We were a little curious if this was
going to happen when we got here and half of our supplies were in Spanish, and
it finally did! Thankfully we have a few members who will said that they would
come to our rescue at our next lesson so we won't be completely on our own, but
ya it's awesome! For our last lesson with them we showed the Restoration video
(the last 10 min. Of the 20 min. version one) and the spirit was so strong! I
don't know if I was just paying more attention to the spirit because I couldn't
understand a single word the video was saying, or if Spanish is just more
spiritual 😀 but it
was amazing! It even brought the dad to tears, who is actually a less-active
member! It was great! Because about 1/4 of Greybull speaks Spanish, half
of the supplies we get are in Spanish so I can just about bear my testimony in
Spanish now!
I love how much the lord helps us in our daily lives.
Lately in comp study we have been reciting ether 12:27 which reads "27 And
if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men
weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that
humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have
faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." I LOVE
THIS SCRIPTURE! Satan is always pointing things out to us that make us think
that we are weak, or aren't good enough, why try? But you know what? Yes. We
have weaknesses. We aren't good at every thing! But through the Lord, we truly
can do all things!
We have never gone too far, are too imperfect, or too
messed up. If we let Jesus Christ's Atonement into our lives, we can do all
things!
Never give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
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