Monday, May 11, 2015

Email received May 11, 2015

Hello Family!

First of all, Happy Birthday Dad!! Hope it’s a fabulous one!

It was great to talk to y’all yesterday! One thing I meant to ask about was when Jeff goes to England? Honestly, most of the call home yesterday just seems like a blur. Anyway, it was great as always. We had an ok week here in College Station. It has been pretty hectic for all the students with finals and everything, so it’s also been kinda hard to meet with them. We found a new investigator this week. His name is Robert. We met with him at a Panda Express and taught him a little about the importance of coming to church. We didn’t teach him about the Restoration because it wasn’t exactly the ideal setting for teaching someone. We’ll be meeting with him this Wednesday though, so we’re excited about that.

Yesterday, right after skyping, we had a lesson with an investigator named Jeremy (his real name is Yizhen. He’s Chinese). He’s been investigating for a long time. He’s had several baptismal dates. The lesson we had with him last night went well. We taught something we learned in zone conference this past week. We learned how to effectively teach people about why God has given us commandments. Through a series of awesome scriptures that eventually leads to 2 Nephi 2:27, we help people realize that we have 2 things to choose from in this life: Liberty and Captivity. Satan seeks to bind us into captivity. In that scripture it tells us that we can choose liberty through the Great Mediator, Jesus Christ, and then in vs 28 we learn what God has given us so that we can choose liberty. It says we must "look unto the great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments" The Lord has blessed us with commandments because that is how we choose liberty. Some ways that Satan binds us into captivity are: drugs, pornography, money, work, the list could go on and on. Well, the Lord has given The Word of Wisdom, the Law of Chastity, the Law of Tithing, and the law of the Sabbath day to combat those. As we keep these commandments, we AVOID becoming captive to those dangers and we are LIBERATED from any captivity that we were in. I’m so grateful that we have a Heavenly Father that gives us commandments. He doesn’t give them to us to restrict us, or simply for us to praise him, but he gives them to us so that we can be FREE.

Anyway, we taught this to Jeremy and related to how baptism is a commandment. We all felt the Spirit and he agreed to be baptized if he feels that it’s what God wants him  to do. We currently have a baptismal date for June 6. Hopefully helping him understand the WHY of the commandments and commitments we leave with him will help him to keep them. In other news, the sisters here in the College Station 2nd ward had 2 baptisms this past weekend. They’re on fire and we need to catch up with them. Finals for A&M ends tomorrow and finals for Blinn ends on Friday so we’ll be able to meet with some people more often, and there will also be tons of people leaving. It’s also getting pretty hot and humid! One last summer. haha. Anyway, I love you all so much, thanks for the love and support you have shown me and will continue to show. Have a great week!

-Elder Steed


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