Good Morning everyone!
So guess what, we finally had a lesson with the Lancaster
Family! It was amazing! They offered to feed us dinner and we taught them the
restoration! It was absolutely fantastic as we got to teach them the gospel.
Neither of them have been too religious so it was amazing too see their
reactions as we taught them that Families are supposed to be eternal and don't
end here. While we didn't get to put them on date yet, they committed to being
baptized when they know that it's true at the end of the lesson as well! I am
so pumped for them!
Let's see. Also this week we got to finally make it out
to the Ten Sleep Ward! (Sorry mom, we forgot to take pictures, we heading back
down in 2 weeks though!) It is honestly a beautiful small town.
Unfortunately we picked a heck of a week to head down.
Apparently everyone in the valley and even some from out of state head to Ten
Sleep for the 4th of July festivities. So this little town of 240 people was
just packed! On the bright side church was packed! While it is technically a ward, they have a tiny little branch building and we basically had chairs clear into the cultural hall. We were still setting up chairs after the sacrament! It
really is a wonderful little town though.
After church was over we got to sit down and have a great
meeting with the bishop there who is honestly such a great man. He gave us a
solid referral for someone that he knew in town and so we immediately went to
go contact him. This guy is totally prepared for the gospel!
Because he was busy we taught him a little bit of the
restoration then gave him a pamphlet and set up a lesson! Unfortunately because
miles we won't really get to go back for another 2 weeks, however the bishop will
be trying to make daily contact with him. :)
Oh! Also this week we had a super amazing lesson with a
less-active of ours. Vicki. She has been taking the lessons from missionaries
for quite sometime now, well in our lesson this week she called her self out
again! I think I talked about her a bit last week. However this week throughout
the lesson she was constantly testifying of the gospel to her roommate, who
thinks that the Book of Mormon is true, and basically telling her that she
needs to come to church with her :) she is progressing so much!
But ya. That's pretty much been the week. We did do some
service for an older sister in the Ward this week, sister Shepard. She is such
a hoot! She had us trimming up trees and picking s bunch of weeds, all a bunch
of normal stuff. But then after that she wanted me to go and install Windows 10
on her computer. Bless her soul she was just so fantastic!
We were planning on having bro. Cheatham take us to Byron tonight to sit RIGHT
UNDERNEATH some fireworks. But that entire event got moved to Friday and today
is the only day that we are allowed to stay out till 10:30. However bro.
Cheatham said that we will just have to have our own party or something to that
extent tonight. We had a lesson planned for today, but it got canceled so we will mostly be doing
finding activities today. Tons of people are out and about so hopefully we can
get he gospel spread a little bit :). Other than that, our plans for today are mostly just eating ice
cream, and emailing home. So much ice cream. The Cheatham's recently chewed us
out for not eating enough of their food and buying our own. Soo now we have
quite a bit of extra money. And we just happened to discover this insane
awesome ice cream place over here in Basin. Ya. It's been bad. Thankfully I'm
still at my pre-mission weight so yay!
So literally just minutes ago a freakin miracle occurred!
We just got a call near the end of companionship study from an unknown number. Well apparently she met some missionaries a while back
who gave her a Book of Mormon and told her to call when she finished. Well she
just did. She apparently also read preach my gospel, the missionaries told her
to look it up and read the lessons, and now she wants to meet with us. We have
a lesson Thursday! So ya. We got another call
from her about an hour ago asking us if we knew that the Book of Mormon was
true. Like really true. She was breaking in and out of service but she sounded
near tears. All we really got out was that she knew the promise in the back by
heart, and that her dad is a preacher. Apparently she took last semester of college off to go do a 3,000 mile
hike of the country. Apparently she ran into some return missionaries on the
hike or something and then also somehow got a hold of our number here and on
the hike read the entire Book of Mormon, then most of Preach my Gospel.
Seriously. We are waiting to hear more from her, at the moment we have a day
and time scheduled with her for our lesson, but we don't know her name or where
she lives/wants to have the lessons.
So this week in my studies I have been finishing up 2
Nephi. Wow. I think these are some of my new favourite chapters in the Book of
Mormon. Quick scripture time, 2 Nephi 32:3 "Angels speak by the power of
the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of
Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should
do." I love that last part so much. "The words of Christ will tell
you all things what ye should do." My
testimony to you all is that they truly will. If we ever need any advice, turn
to the scriptures. I have received so much counsel and guidance from them, they
are truly a blessing in my life.
I love you all!
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| Who told my car? |
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| Elder De Mille! |
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| Poor sick Elder Ison |
Never give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
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