Tender Mercy Stories

Here are a couple stories from this week.

Ralph:
We taught Ralph this week the about the Restoration. He has been taught by missionaries for a little while now and has a hard time keeping commitments. We helped him understand the importance of keeping the simple commitments such as coming to church, praying and reading. We set him with the baptismal date of June 16. He promised us he would come to church but sure enough he didn’t come...

Matthew:
So on Saturday night, Elder Rabago and I were knocking some doors and a door opened and guess who answered, Matthew Heimark!! I freaked out haha it was crazy. So you all probably don’t remember, but I met Matthew probably 16 months ago golfing and at Rhodes Ranch and then knocked on his parents’ door 8 months later in a different area in town and became super good friends with his parents and him. So I guess in January, he moved out from his parents’ house and moved into this house here in the south part of Las Vegas and I just so happened to knock on his door! Talk about a crazy miracle. I feel God is trying to tell him something haha … maybe that he should get baptized!

Aubrey:
She is as awesome and solid as it gets for an investigator. She went to the Relief Society activity and a baptism on Saturday and church on Sunday. She purchased ties and bow ties for her boys haha. Her husband still isn’t too sure about it all, but she is all in! The baptism we took her to was super cringy.  We showed up like twenty minutes before it was to start and there was one person there. Right before the baptism began, the grandma answered her phone and was talking super loud haha. The Spirit was still there.

Russell:
We had a great lesson with Russell on Sunday and taught him the Plan of Salvation. We drew it with chalk on his driveway and his dad loved it. We are praying, as we teach Russell the lessons, his parents will feel the Spirit and become interested! Haha we asked his dad if he wanted us to wash the chalk off, but he said we could leave it and so there is a big Plan of Salvation drawn out on their driveway!

This week after the baptism Aubrey went to, we sat down and read 1 Nephi 1. I love the last bit of that chapter “But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.”

I truly felt that the Lord was blessing us with tender mercies this week and I know that God is aware of us and He loves us! I know that as we acknowledge Him and show gratitude towards Him, He will continue to bless us and direct us!

Love,
Elder Call