Sunday, December 21, 2014

Email received November 10, 2014

Hello everyone,

We had a cool miracle happen this week. We were tracting and ended up knocking on the door of a lady that has been inactive for years and isn't on the ward list. We talked a bunch and she said that she really likes the church but had just fallen away. :)

We were finally able to meet with Alan again. Everything is going well with him, it’s just going a little slow. We were able to set up a constant meeting with him for every Friday. This week we are going to be really bold. We are going to talk about the Plan of Salvation (his wife died 7 months ago) and about baptisms for the dead. His wife was also an investigator before she got cancer. We talked a little about how the gospel is taught in the spirit world and how there are missionaries too. We really feel good about Alan. Church was really great yesterday. Both of the talks were amazing. :)

Other than that, this was a really rough week. Everything fell through and we didn’t plan very well for that. At one point I kinda lost it and had a mini melt down, but all is good. haha. It’s so cool to be a missionary. We are working really hard to find people to teach. It seems like everyone we talk to that is interested only speaks spanish. So we’re finding people for the spanish missionaries! Same team though, right? haha. Anyway, we’re gonna try harder to work more with members. I think because my first area when I was being trained was a pretty hard ward to work with members so I honestly just never learned how to do it. I guess the best way to learn something is to just do it even though you have no idea what you’re doing it. That’s probably the biggest lesson I’ve learned on my lesson so far.

Well, I love you all. Thanks for the continuous prayers and updates. It’s so great to be a missionary and to do the Lord’s work. It’s always amazed me how he trusts us (missionaries & members) to do HIS work. I love you all!

love,
Elder Steed

(The following photos and captions were sent to us by a family that fed Nate and his companion a while back, the Clines.)

Hi, my family belongs to the Bear Creek Ward where your son and his companion are serving.  We took photos of them when they had dinner at our house and I thought I would pass them along to you.  My son is serving a mission in Nevada Las Vegas West and I love it when I get photos from members so thought I would do the same for you.


We fed them up on lasagna, garlic bread, salad, brownies and Blue Bell ice cream.  After dinner they gave my husband and I and our 15yo son a wonderful lesson on the blessings of the priesthood.  We were so grateful to have Elder Steed, Elder Allen, and their spirit in our home. Hope you enjoy the photos.  They enjoyed posing.

P.S.  This was all their idea....  I just took the photos..

No missionaries or Books of Mormon were harmed here.  Pretty hard to get through 2 Nephi...

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