Elder Tr3y: New Comp in Medina!!

New Companion - Elder Boothe

Alright team. this week was a doozy! Some great things going on!! I can't remember them all again but a few from the highlight real is always nice :)

So Elder Luster got transferred after 1 transfer here. That would be really hard. My new comp is Elder Ryan Boothe! He is from Boise Idaho and I forgave him for the fact that he has attended and will return to University of Utah. We are really hitting it off right now and he has a UKULELE!!! SO SWEET!! we are planning on making a few renditions of hymns and primary songs on our p-days! We are having some great success together already!

 

so we had am awesome lesson with our investigator Richard! we talked about the Restoration of the gospel and how we have gained a testimony of it ourselves. at the end he said, "everything you're saying i already believe. now I've already been baptized so would I have to get baptized again?" We talked about the priesthood a little more. and then he said that he would get baptized if he comes to REALLY know it is true!! he said he doesn't like reading so I had a restoration dvd on hand and gave it to him!! It was so good!!

 

Next up for the highlights was a lesson that was unexpected. we were driving to a less actives and decided to stop by a different family on the way who was very hard to set things up with because of his and his wife's crazy schedule. We knocked and he was home. He let us in and his 2 year old daughter had the movie playing entitled, "Frozen" and I did here a part of the song "Let It Go" totally a great song!! Definitely up there with Tangeld songs for sure! We talked and read a scripture with him. It was easy and flowed well, as we wrapped up he said, "Your guys' timing is great! We had just gotten home and put the dishes away when you knocked!! Oh the promptings of the spirit is amazing!!!

 

Then our "Kodak moment", was at our lesson with another less active. She has had a hard time with the passing of her son in a motorcycle accident that she helped pay for. She was slightly confused about the after life. I felt impressed to share with her about my brother Toby. The spirit was incredibly strong that I needed a nap after. She knows that God loves her and she has a testimony that the atonement will help her. She wants us back to help her understand exactly how. But really she doesn't want US back, she wants the spirit back! Sometimes I forget that. They don't feel me, or my presence, they feel Him and His presence as we bare testimony of the truth as prompted and designed by the spirit of God.

 

I love this time I have that is set apart to simply serve. It is easy, but we make it complex. All we need to do is to take a leap of faith. I am learning now more then ever how much of an action word faith is. "If faith isn't a verb, why does it leap?" We don't have faith, in a way to me now made more clear we DO faith and have a "perfect brightness of hope." then our faith is strengthened and grows.

 

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

Elder Trey Toolson