Well we had a pretty good week this past week, and I feel pretty good about it. This past week we set a new record for Mount Shasta at least since I have been here. We taught 15 lessons last week, so we are very excited about that. Also we are looking forward to a great week ahead of us.
We picked up a new Investigator named Thema this week. She is a lady from Dunsmuir that was invited to one of our lessons with Juanita our Eternal Investigator. She is very religious, and has been back and forth throughout her life. She is actually very Golden. She has stopped attending her local church recently because the minister was preaching stuff that she didn't like. Pretty much all of her views are lined up with ours so we are very excited to be teaching her. She asked us about babies being born sinners, she didn't think so, neither do we. She doesn't like the Holy Trinity, she wondered how they could all be one when it refers to them each individually, well we believe the same. All of her lifelong questions we were there, and we had the answers for her! It was pretty awesome! Juanita will be out of town this week, so we won't be meeting with either of them, but next week we will be having an awesome lesson.
Another cool expirience was that family I told you about last week that approached us at church and invited us to come over. So they live in Dunsmuir as well, so on Friday we drove down to go and introduce ourselves. They live in this, for lack of a better word, Ghetto trailer park. We walked over to their trailer, and the husband waved us to come over. He said his wife was down in Sacramento, and asked us if we could come back another day. So we rescheduled and were walking away when this family, who were also outside the trailer waved us to come and to talk to them as well. So we went and shared a little bit about the Book of Mormon with them. It was a very interesting lesson... to say the least, constant interruptions from an Irish man who was fixing his truck screaming and swearing about something, the people we were talking too drinking and smoking, and this odd neighbor came over, and was yelling at us because we were mormon, and in essence swore profusely about his oppinion of our church! Now is sounds pretty bad, but it was actually very entertaining! We had a very good laugh about the whole thing later, and we are hoping to pick them up as Investigators this week. So I will let you know more when I know some more!
Well our meeting with Jason went well this week, Vonda is in Oregon for the week, and so we just went over to answer a couple of his questions about prayer, and read some of the Book of Mormon with him, we ended up having an awesome discussion. We shared a conference talk about prayer by Russell M. Nelson, which was awesome. And he sayed he is praying more, even they have prayed as a family of couple of times. Their Daughter Kiya loves to pray, and things are going good. He let us in a little bit more I would say, he told us more about his beliefs, and why they feel the way they do, and a lot of those expiriences that have led them to believe in Reincarnation are so close to the Gospel. I can see how it relates to his beliefs, but it fits right in with ours!! For example when Kiya was like 3 months old, they had such a strong connection with them, they could understand what she wanted, and they just felt that she was too smart to be 3 months old! Well she lived with them in the Pre-earth life!! Kiya also told Vonda that she missed them up in Heaven!!! Jason also with tears in his eyes thanked us so much for being there for him. He thanked us for inviting God into his life. He said that God was always there but before he just wasn't recognizing it. It was awesome!
Well that is about all I wanted to say for today, I want to tell you all that I love your Gutz!!!
Elder Ellsworth
Quote of the Week!
There is not one great and grand thing we can do to arm ourselves Spiritually. True Spiritual power lies in numerous smaller acts woven together in a fabric of Spiritual fortification.
Elder Ballard
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