April 8, 2013
Dear Family & Friends,
I love conference time. So many
inspired messages from wonderful leaders who have the authority to give us direction
from our loving Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ. I love
being able to listen and obtain direction for specific questions I have and to
receive divine counsel as we feel and listen to the Spirit during these
conferences. What a marvelous time to reflect on and adjust our lives to
bring them in closer harmony with the teachings of the Savior. Some great
direction we received is how to be a lifelong missionary. Missionary work
doesn't need to be this secular activity that we do in life. Instead, it
is a part of life that we can do naturally day by day. Inviting and
helping others to come unto Christ often times is through our small and simple
actions or words that we may often times overlook if we are not listening or
willing to follow direction the Spirit is giving us. When I think of all
the blessings of the Gospel and see the effect that it has in all the lives of
those who faithfully live it as opposed to the lives of those who do not or
partially live it I am reminded of how good the Gospel of Jesus Christ is.
It truly is the way to peace and happiness in this life and immortality
and eternal life in the world to come. How blessed we are to have this
knowledge. How blessed we are to be able to have the Holy Ghost to help
us fulfill the divine command to share the Gospel.
As far as we can tell we did not have
any investigators view Conference. We invited many over the last couple of
weeks so I pray that some of them will have viewed at least a session and felt
the spirit as they did so. We did have a few less-active individuals
watch that we know of. We have a few investigators we still need to get a
hold of to see if they viewed the Conference however. Thank you for your
prayers on there behalf. Our faith when it is united works miracles and
helps to prepare the hearts and minds of God's children to receive the Savior's
love and to repent to bring their lives in harmony with His Gospel.
This week we had Mission Council on
Tuesday and then held our Zone Training Meeting on Thursday in the Kirtland
Visitors Center. As a mission we have been finding more and more over the
past month. We pray that this trend will continue to grow and remain high
as we continue to exercise faith and are united as a mission in achieving the
goals that have been set. They are righteous goals and we are seeking
diligently to achieve them for our Heavenly Father.
So the bike, I could probably get
about $250 out of it if I put it on Craigslist. Also, I very well may use it
back home. I'm still conflicted over whether to sell it or not.
Most bikes go pretty quick online though. I will keep thinking
about it this week.
Thanks for the great topic on faith
for my talk in June. There is a lot you can talk about with that one.
I will be thinking of something specific to speak about from that
topic. Is their any specific part
of faith that the Ward could benefit from right now? If there is let me
know and I will base some thoughts around that as well.
I love you all lots! Thanks you
for your prayers, love, and encouragement you always give to me. I
appreciate your great examples so very much.
Have a great week!
Love,
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