Monday - Day 21

Fun things that happened this past week:

Last thursday Elder Rogers, my senior companion, and I had a meeting with the President. I couldn't really tell what was going on so I just humbly followed what my senior companion did. He moved, I moved. He talked, I talked. He sat down, I sat down.

We showed up to his house and we waited a little while, we sit down and then President hands Elder Rogers and I a piece of paper that has nothing to do with teaching simply, which is why we thought we were there.

- He told us to stop contacting and only serve people. Find ways to serve and find people that way. Get referrals from people. Go to hospitals and tell them we are ordained ministers.

- Go to homeless shelters and work with people and DO NOT work with the homeless people themselves, we don't have time to work with them right now, instead work with the good people who work at these places.

- Only teach Males of leadership age and families. President gave us a perfect lesson about Gods plan for families. It was amazing and only about 10 minutes. Invite people to dinner.....do whatever the Lord prompts us to do but don't contact and harvest. Find new investigators by other means.

1. Find families that can be the leaders (He said in a few days there will be families found)
2. Find a place where we can have a "learning center". Where we can meet with people we find.
3.Then when there is enough members to form a branch we need to find a church building.

I'm sure happy the President said not to teach the bums. I've had a couple powerful experiences with them so far in my mission, but they are smelly. Also, they don't have very good manners.

One time my senior comp and I decided to take a bum home with us to clean him up. As we were disrobing him, I could not believe the foul stench coming from his nether regions. I almost had to put my arm to the square and rebuke the devilish smells in the name of Joseph Smith.

Anywhoo, we started talking to Michael (that's the bum's name) about the gospel, and when I got to the first vision, there was this spirit in the room. I asked Michael if he felt it, and he said yes. Then I committed him to being baptized by an official representative of Jesus H. Christ. He said that he wanted to be baptized.

So, my senior comp decided to baptize him in our bathtub. The only problem was that our bathtub wasn't very big, and Michael was there half-naked in the tub coming up and down for air. My comp just kept dunking him under, but as he would push his head down, Michael's feet would pop up.

Eventually, after holding his head under water for a good couple minutes, Michael (the bum) finally stopped fighting and was baptized.

The spirit was so strong. So, so, sooooooo strong.

I love my mission!!! I love the church!!!!!

Another day, another soul saved

Sunday we gave Brother Johnson the Holy Ghost and baptized him on Saturday (he's just turned 8), the Sprit was awesome and a lot of people came out to see it, we also had some investigators come and now they are pretty interested as well.

The main lesson we teach to these 8 year olds is pretty simple. It's how we can choose to love the Lord and serve him.

We have three cups: 1 full of rice, 1 full of rocks, and 1 empty. Rocks are important priorities that the Lord wants us to do, rice is the trivial things. The empty one is our time here in this life.

If we put the rice in first, you can't fit in the rocks, and the Lord has said that if we don't have time for him here, why should he have time for us? But if we do it the opposite way, putting the rocks and important things in first, the rice falls around the rocks and everything fits. So, rice and rocks go together like socks, but rice and air makes you want to stare. Got it!!!

It's a simple lesson but has so much truth to it. The Lord has given us this alotted time on Earth, He will provide opportunities for us, I know it's true. I know the blessings that come from the temple. My family has been richly blessed because of the choices we've made.

PLEASE I love being a missionary, please write a comment as soon as you can!!!