Hello, wonderful Brothers and Sisters!
This week has
been great. I told you allthat we were told to get familiear with our
Family History and Familysearch.com. I know understand why people love
it so much! I loved connecting the trees and reading stories from my
ancestors. I read about about Andrew Ole Anderson and his pony express
adventures and his run-ins with the indians, I loved reading the story
About how the Ford family joined the church in england and crossed teh
ocean on what the Aussies would call a very "dodgey" vessel! It was
fantastic! Our ward family history advisor was so excited to show us all
about it and introduce us to all the people in the family history
center. I guess 1 of every 2 people is interested in family history. A
great finding method!
We had the blessing of being able to help Emerlita Donado Torres
on her path back to heaven by entering in to the waters of baptism! It
was great! She is a refferal from Sister Johnstone. Merly was SO ready
for the gospel we didn't really have to do much, the spirit was already
working with her and our primary president was fantastic in the
fellowship. It wsa great to be able to help her on her path. Miraculous
you might even say.
My core experience with god this week was pretty simple. Elder
Orr and myself started to weed out some of our "borderline Obdeience."
Particularly in the area of music. The blessings followed. Sister Merly
Torres was baptised and she was and is so ready. I don't like to use the
term golden, but she was so ready and willing for the gospel and the
commandments. We bettered ourselves, we followed the rules we'd been
given and our investigator recieved the blessings. It was so great to
see and help someone reach the ordinance of baptism for the first time
in THIS mission. Continuing on with the rules we'd been given. I gave a
talk after the baptism and invited all to be baptised, like we have been
asked to do. In the time afterwards when everyone was in the gym having
refreshments and talking, a member we thought didn't trust us came to
us and asked if we could come by this week and teach their family,
moastly their duaghter who is preparing for baptism in the coming
months. I have always known obedience brings blessing, and exact
obedience brings miracles, heard that a thousand times. I have seen
similear blessing before. It is just nice to have reminders as we
continue to see the vision and align our self with it! it feels so much
better to know you are doing the right thing than to think "I hope I am
doing the right thing and following the rules okay."
Teaching is getting better. We are becoming less over-bearing and
teaching more simply. It is helping our investigators I think. Why would
it not? We are giving them a lot of new things to think about. We all
know what it is like to not understand something, for example math
class. It is easy, for me at least, to get lost in math class. The end
result is me hating math class. If we confuse the people we teach they
won't accept the gospel becuase they do not understand it, and we will
have to be accountable for that at the last day. Simplicity is the key.
That is what I am seeing as I study the atonement everyday. The gospel
is more simple than we sometiems make it out to be. That study is going
well by the way. It usually ends up taking up more of my study time than
I originally intend. ha.
The biggest thing I learned this last transfer is I need to
start taking the lead more, especially at members home when we are
trying to get out on time. I am coming up on a year out and am no longer
the less-experienced in misson. I just need to keep breaking those
mental barriers I spoke about a month or two back. Also, getting to
really know people, members and investigators. I was told that a LOT
last transfer and had several experiences. I need to understand and know
the people I am trying to serve. I would say that is what I learned
last transfer.
I love you ALL!
Love,
Elder Ford
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