Hey Fam,
We had a pretty good week. We had an awesome lesson with a lady named
Jonatalie this week. We taught her the Restoration and it went really
well. She was like bawling the whole time. You could see, in her eyes,
that the spirit was telling her the truthfulness of the message we were
sharing. She said she felt really happy and felt loved. The spirit
testifies to people you teach on a mission more than you would think,
but sadly people's agency often times gets in the way and they forget
those feelings that they felt. Anyway, it was a great reminder of how
strong the Spirit can be. Not just to us as members, but people learning
of the Restored Gospel for the first time as well!
We had a really crazy experience this week. A couple of nights ago I was
driving back to our apartment on the freeway in the very left lane.
Thankfully, I looked over to the right and noticed that a crash was
about to happen so I started to pull over. About 50 yards ahead in the
lane next to ours, traffic was almost to a stop. There was a car who
must not have been looking because she slammed into the back of a almost
fully stopped car while she was going about 60 mph. After the impact,
the car that got hit started spinning and both cars ended up going
through the lane that we were in. If I hadn't have looked and saw that
it was about to happen, we probably would have slammed into both cars at
75 mph. Clearly someone was looking out for us and I'm glad that they
were!
We have started a Book of Mormon class here in the Melbourne Ward. I had the idea for this a couple of months ago and this past Wednesday
we had our first one. The idea was to strengthen members and LA's and
to invite investigators to it as well. Well, since it was my idea, I had
to teach it. haha. Elder Su'a taught some as well. There were about 7
people, all active members in attendance. It actually went really well.
When I got the idea I strongly felt that it was revelation. It's
interesting how as I acted on that revelation, the Lord helped me (and
Elder Su'a) to have a good lesson and for the Spirit to be there. If we
act on the impressions that we get, the Lord will help us accomplish the
things he has asked us to do.
We have a new investigator named Monica. She was taught by missionaries
before and 3 of her kids were baptized. She moved into our ward so now
we will be teaching her. She seems really awesome and there might be
some promise there. Laura came to sacrament meeting yesterday.
The talks that were given were really awesome but she had to go home
after it was over. She said she enjoyed it but that part of it she
didn't enjoy (we are guessing it was the noise level because of the
kids) lots of people are used to when you can hear a pin drop at church
haha. Well there's a little update. Lots of our investigators have
decided to ignore us, but at the same time we are finding new, more
prepared investigators. We are also starting to work with the members
more often and see what we can do to help strengthen them in their
calling as member missionaries. Do your best to help the missionaries.
They need help. Love you all! Have a great week! Sorry, I forgot to take
pictures this week :(
love,
Elder Steed
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