Hola Familia!
Things here are going pretty good. It snowed like
crazy here this past week and we have like a foot on the ground right now!!
I feel bad for all the other Elders and Sisters that are out there
walking because we have a nice warm car with drink holders that we can put hot
chocolate in hahaha ;)...It is absolutely ridiculously cold here, just
ridiculous! My shoes I got at DI for 5 bucks are soaking wet all the time
haha but it will do because I am counting on it not to have another huge snow
storm. It only snowed a few times last year so I am definitely not going
to go out and buy some expensive pair of boots that I will never be able to use
again.
The mission is doing really well right now and the General
Authorities are really really happy with what is going on here which is good. P-day is getting crazy too.
We are bringing like 6 people from the YSA wards to come play. And
they are all good. One is a kid who has been super
inactive for a long time. I asked him if
he would be down to come and help us teach a lesson that week. Just one lesson
- and he agreed. So we planned to have that one lesson be at Temple
Square!! And basically the lesson that we had there was super
spiritual and he could definitely feel it. We were talking with him after
we were done on the way home and he was saying how much he wanted to feel the
Spirit more in his life. He wanted to be
able to feel the Spirit all of the time like his siblings but he just didn't
know how he could do it. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon
and how that can help us with not living on spiritual highs but having that
constant companionship of the Holy Ghost with us. That is something that
we are promised at baptism so if we are doing what we are supposed to be doing
then there is no reason why we should be living on just occasional spiritual
highs. We talked to him about how we can know that the Atonement is
active in our lives when we feel the Spirit. Every time that we
feel it we know that the Atonement is working in our lives. The Book of
Mormon plays such a big role because it is the road map of how to access the
Atonement and apply it. We can have the Spirit with
us all the time and when we do that others that are around us will be able to
feel it. He talked about how much he wanted to help his friends that were
struggling. The reason why he wanted to help them is because he was
feeling the effect of the Atonement and just like Lehi felt when he
partook of the fruit (Atonement); he desired to share that with his family.
We talked about how we cannot convert others above our own conversion so it
was important that he was getting converted himself so that he could help
others. Then he got up and bore his testimony in church this Sunday saying
how he knows with all his heart that the church is true and the Book of Mormon
is true. The Spirit was super strong and it was really cool to see the
change that he is making in his life. He’s only 19 and the things that he
is doing right now are going to help him for the rest of his life.
But I
got to get going so hope all is going well for you!
Don't forget to pray! Love ya!
Siempre Cree,
Elder Creer
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