GOOD NEWS FOR 2013 to end on~
1) Toolson boys got GUNS for Christmas - Because Tiara is getting Way Too Pretty!
2) Thank You for the Missionary Stocking Cardiff Ward and Good Friends - So GOOD to hear from All of you! Thanks for thinking of me, sending support and a some holiday cheer! Love the Cards too even though I am getting them late because of my transfer...they all went to Parma. Ha ha
3) Skyping with the Fam - facetiming in TJ/Michelle, grandma and grandpa Toolson w/my grandpa Strong and fam in Bear Lake!
There were 2 awesome experiences to add to the Good News this week!!
1st off REBECCA FLOWRY, YOU ARE AWESOME!! Rebecca, who is from Canton Ohio (in my mission) visited her sister in Wadsworth which is the ward right before Medina! It was so good seeing her and the best part was, I kept my head in the work. I always thaught it would be awkward if running into Good Friends were to ever happen but it was so cool and I am still feeling like a missionary!! I think it was easy because I use a lot of examples from my life that came from my time at BYU-Idaho so it was more natural then anything else!
Awesome experience number 2! So we were tracting and it was the last door on this street, (that's why it is classic) and a man answered saying that there was nothing that we could do to help him understand that there was a god, he used different terms but that was the jist of it. elder cummins asked what his MOS was because he was wearing his army hat. that broke donw a layer of ice and he then started talking about how 3 years ago, his son who was about to turn 19 the months from the day he died. he looked at us, and said as he fought back tears that he was just like us. he was our age. he challenged us to give him a difinitive answer of why god, if he exhisted, would do that. We tried to explain that we don't know god's plan and things happen according to HIS will, but he wouldn't take that answer for comfort. He turned us away but as we shook his hand, he looked at us with pain in his heart but was thankful that we tried. We tried to see him again last night but he wasn't home. We are going over again with alma 14 in hand and mind and also the plan of salvation that is the most wonderful and beautiful and AMAZING thing that has ever before and ever will be given to us for our taking. He will not be forgotten.
God is our Father. he loves us so he sent his son. his son loved us so he suffered, bled, and died. If that was it. if that was all. we would not ever have a life after this. but there is another part of the atonement that all too often gets over looked. HE IS RISEN!!! he lives. i know it and i teach ith with tears in my eyes because His love fills my heart. there is nothign greater then this love that so completely encircles each of us. as we accress the power of the atonement, we are freed, empowered by love, strenghtend by and enlightened by this eternal love that we can not come close in this weak mortal frame to comprehending. it is truely eternal. My testimony of this grows stronger everyday. please, come to know your father. come to know you are everything in the sight of you father in heaven. he loves each of us equally. Christ our savior and our Father in heaven know we are in need of this paln and love and our Reddemer is there waiting for you with open arms, and yes, tear filled eyes because he knows your pain. he knows your sorrow. He loves you more then we can ever comprehend on this earth and i plea with each of you who read this testimony of the Savior and his love and would like to know if these things are true, to pray to your father in heaven who loves and cares for you, if it is true. There is a place in heaven for each of us if we seek it. I love this!!! Words are nothing more than a barrier in my attempt to express my complete joy and love that fills my entire system with light and love for my Savior, the atonement and this plan.
Fight the fight, stay the course, keep the Faith!
Love,
Elder Tr3y Toolson
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