18th Letter: Share the Gospel Neighbor!

FHE at the Cargills

 

 

 
Hello My Dear Family and Friends Out There!

 

SO...This week was really good!! We have had great food and fun family nights but, We found 2 new investigators!! Our recent convert Rod has been stepping it up!! he has been talking with his neighbor about the gospel and the NEIGHBOR asked if he could sit in on our lessons!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO PUMPED!!!! He has been preparing for such a long time. This is huge!! We are so excited!! His name is Ryan, he has been divorced and remarried, but has used drugs & alcohol and has been doing his best to get those things out of his life!! One side of his family is NOT religious at all and he sees the contrast and knows that the Lord blesses lives and wants to see what we teach!

 

The other investigator is a little different. He claims to have been baptized as a Mormon but it was "behind closed doors" and took place in a evangelical church..... and the church has "shunned" him. This is obviously something that was weighing on my mind, and I was thinking that I have been preparing for my mission these past 19 years, there are important parts missing here and we will find them as we pick up the pieces. So we need to take a very different approach with Stan but we are definitely seeing some potential for something great! 

 

I know that the Lord is in this.... not just his hand. This is His work and His glory, would you then say after hearing that statement that just his HAND is in it? THIS IS HIS EVERYTHING! I was struck with the power that comes with my job and His! This was the purpose for creating the earth, for this plan he has made, for us to become like him!!

 

We also had stake conference this week SO GOOD!! They were talking about how there are some of our siblings (children of god) who weren't getting home taught. The first thing that came to my mind, NO EMPTY CHAIRS!!! I WANT MY WHOLE FAMILY TO BE THERE WHEN I DIE!!! When we are all sitting at the giant dinner table in heaven, and we see that your brother didn't make it because he was never taught. ... indeed that would be devastating!!

 

NO_EMPTY_CHAIRS!!!

This week is short but I gotta go!! Love you

Fight the fight, stay the course, keep the Faith!

Love,
Elder Toolson III