Tuesday, April 3, 2012

What A Wonderful General Conference


Dear Family & Friends,

What a wonderful general conference!  It went by very, very fast.  Each session had great messages for all of our investigators, the Branch, and for me personally, to know how I can become a better missionary and son of my Heavenly Father.  We had Dianne Kimmet to conference this last weekend...many things came up for others not being able to be there unfortunately.  But Dianne loved the session she was able to attend, and just finished the Book of Mormon with our Mission Challenge of reading it by the 30th of March!  She has never read the Book of Mormon cover to cover and she said she has loved it and found so much that applies specifically to her as she has read.  She plans on reading it again before the year is over.  We are hoping to help her identify and recognize the examples of faith in the Book of Mormon to helping her commit to a date for baptism.  Her Mom is Catholic and she is working through that concern of not disappointing her mom.  I know as she has read the Book of Mormon her faith has grown, and she has increased in her desire to be baptized and go to the temple.  Faith over Fear!  I can't wait to meet with her this week.  I pray she will accept a date and continue to prepare for that day. 

We are hard at work here in Tiffin striving to help those we have found to progress and seek for more of our Brothers and Sisters to help come unto Christ.  We met a pretty cool guy named Tyrone Mormon this last week.  We knocked on his door and talked with him for a while.  In our conversation he talked about how he always got hit by teachers in churches growing up because of questions he would ask.  Like one of them was, "why is there the old testament, and new testament?  Did God mess up or something?"  We then explained the Old and New testaments to him and he said, "well that's simple, why didn't they just say that?"  We then shared the restoration with him and shared an additional witness of Christ with him, the Book of Mormon.  We are hoping to meet with him again this Friday (our usual day in Fostoria.) 

John Lange said he is reading but wasn't able to meet on Thursday or come to an sessions of conference because he was moving and getting some final things done with going to school at Tiffin University.  We are planning on meeting with him this Thursday.  We gave him the site to watch the talks online and said he would check them out...I have found specific talks for most of those we meet with and am excited to invite them to watch them online with us.  The words of the Prophet and Apostles today are very powerful and the spirit is so strong each time they speak.  I know if they listen sincerely and with real intent they will feel the Spirit as they are uplifted and invited to change and come unto Christ. 

Well I hope you have a great week!  Continue to grow in Faith and become what our Heavenly Father wants us all to be!  I love you!

Love,

Elder Weaver

P.S. I do have a mormon.org profile, type in “Chris Musical Theatre” and I should be right there.  Do you all have one?

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