We had a much needed great week!
2/13 Monday
Today was a blast. We played basketball and a kid came that is one of the best in Nevada. We had some good games, so that was fun. The kid could throw it down like no one’s business, so it was cool to see him dunk. We had a good lesson with Brother Labovitz and committed him to read the Book of Mormon, so hopefully, we can get him to progress. It is tough because he is Jewish and so he doesn't have a belief in Jesus Christ. We are trying to help him understand Christ!
2/14 Tuesday
We had Zone Training Meeting today and it was so sweet!! The dinner rule got changed back but that wasn't the sweet part! The best part was we were talking about how a member dinner should go and how we should always be acting as representatives of Jesus Christ. We were doing a role play of a member dinner to show us how to receive referrals and how to build trust and right in the middle of a super spiritual part, a man opens the door to the room and asks, "Is this a church?" He is visiting his friend for three months and wants a church to attend during his stay so he decided to come and figure out what kind of church he would be coming to because it is right next to his house!! We were able to get his information and he said he would be to church on Sunday! We had another new member lesson with the Rodartes tonight and it was stellar. Sister Rodarte almost taught the lesson of the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ! She has seen such a change in her life for the better it is great! We got a text earlier today from Brother Stucki asking if his wife's baptism could be this Saturday! She is finally getting baptized. She has been taught by missionaries for the last three years, so we are way excited for her!
2/15 Wednesday
We had Zone Conference today and it was great! I talked with a sister from Louisiana and she asked if I had a friend on his mission there and sure enough, Elder Brigg Hoopes is serving in her home branch or ward, I don't remember! There are connections all over the place with people I know. I talked with an RM the other day and he served in the same district as Elder England in Scottsdale. We had a spiritual lesson with the Herleans tonight and so we are excited for Krew's baptism on the 18th of March!
2/16 Thursday
Sister Stucki's baptism interview went well and so we are all set for Saturday! We had to go on exchanges with our District Leader because they had service and he is super sick. Elder Alison got all but one of us sick in the district!
2/18 Saturday
The baptism was a great experience for the Stucki family! Unfortunately, the ward did not turn out, but the Spirit was super strong and just a nice service. Their five kids that are not baptized attended and I think that being at the baptism made them want to be baptized. Hopefully, we can start teaching them! Tonight we taught Tom and we ended up inviting him to be baptized. He said that he thinks all baptisms are the same and so he has already been baptized! He said that he doesn't understand the authority we claim to have. We talked about the Priesthood and then at the end it came out that he was struggling with some things in his situation and so we offered him a Priesthood Blessing. We gave him a blessing and at the end he said, "I want to tell you guys something. While you gave me the blessing I kept seeing two pictures in my mind. One picture was Christ and the other was the three apostles giving Joseph Smith the Priesthood. Wow, the Spirit filled the room and so hopefully next week we will be able to set Tom with a date! He is another that has been taking the lessons for years!
2/19 Sunday
We had a couple people at church today! A lady that has been inactive for years talked to us at the end and really want us to come help her in her return to activity in the church! We met a weird dude tonight which is not unusual here in Vegas! We knocked on his door and he pokes his head out and I think one of the first things he said was "you found me." He is a member and actually a return missionary. He wanted us to come by this Tuesday and said we were going to have some good discussions... It was just super strange the entire time we talked to him at the door, so who knows what is going to happen on Tuesday! Never a dull day in sin city!
Something that I have learned this week is that for years missionaries all around the world think that the Restoration is just the bringing back of a church or bringing back of the Priesthood or kind of just a history lesson. But it is the Restoration of The Gospel of Jesus Christ. All that was restored was the knowledge of actual faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, true repentance, baptism by proper authority and receiving the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end by partaking of the sacrament and making and keeping covenants! That is what was restored! I learned that we don't read the Book of Mormon to know if it is true but we read it to know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was truly restored and if it is the way we follow the gospel and if it truly was restored!
With lots of love,
- Elder Call 🎰💵🎰💵 NLVWM
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