Hello,
Well my
week was pretty grand. We had those
normal
missionary
days where everything cancels and nobody wants to talk with you but some how at
the end of the day we still come home with good attitudes and finish out the
night strong.
Tuesday was
awesome. We were invited out help with
some service on a member’s fish farm.
They raise tilapia, ha-ha how cool is that? We were helping them build a huge fish tank
(like a 40x15 foot fish tank!) it was a blast. My favorite part was talking with one of his
employee named Clayton. He is 22 and is
going to school and working part time and he just could not believe that we
could leave
right out
of high school and come and do what we're doing. The questions he would ask
just kept blowing his mind and it topped it all off when we said we paid to do
it and they didn't pay us! Ha-ha later that
night we got a call from this member who told us about how the
rest of the
day he kept asking more questions about us and why we do what we do. So on
Thursday they invited us back. They worked us hard! Ha they had 2 cement trucks come and with
wheelbarrows we had to haul a ton of concrete into this barn for a side
walk. It took 3 hours of non stop work
but the whole time we were able to become pretty good friends with Clayton. I
don't know how long it will take him
before he will want to take the lessons and learn exactly why we're here
but we will hopefully go back this week
and talk
more.
This
experience just reminded me of how much I love
being a
missionary and how I know the lord has a plan for me. While we talked with him it wasn't hard to
realize he was just kind of lost. He is an awesome guy but just doesn't know
how much better his life can be!
So we had a
baptism on Saturday for Mariah. She is an awesome 9 year old girl. She had been
taught lots when I got here but it was a grand experience to finish her
teaching and watch her get baptized. My favorite part was on Sunday when she
received the Holy Ghost. She asked me to
do it earlier in the week and so I have been studying up lots on the Holy
Ghost. I didn't exactly take the challenge from
conference
but I didn't kind of ponderize a
scripture this week. It was Moroni
10:4-5. I am so grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost and would be lost
without it. I know this church is true
because the Holy Ghost has told me. I know the Book of Mormon is true because
the Holy Ghost has told me it is! I am striving to always listen to the prompting
I get and act when I get them!!
The
highlight of my week was teaching my investigator Sirius. We went over early in
the week to teach him about the plan of salvation and when we started talking
about the atonement and how we can be forgiven for our sins he just look lost. We figured out that he had no idea Jesus
Christ suffered, died and lives and preformed the atonement so
that we can
be forgiven of our sins. We ended up
teaching him 3 times this week and in each lesson we talked about the
atonement, It was amazing! We were
trying to figure out how we could help his testimony of Jesus Christ grow and
we figured out in PMG it says that the best way to gain a testimony of Jesus
Christ is through the reading the Book of Mormon. So that is exactly what he has been doing. He
thinks
it is the
coolest thing ever that he can be forgiven for what he has done! I am so grateful for Jesus Christ and that I
too can repent and change and become more like him.
All in all
it was a pretty good week. I finally got to meet my ward and they are awesome.
It is probably the biggest ward I have been in yet. It kind of feels a little bit like home.
I hope you
all had a good week as well.
Thanks for
the prayers, they help!
Love Elder
Roper
 |
| Mariah |
 |
| The sidewalk we layed at the fish farm |
No comments:
Post a Comment