Greenhead

This week we were able to go down to the new area, and boy is it different!  There is so much land, but very few houses, so its hard to find people to teach, but we were able to contact a few less actives and share a message with them and get a return appointment too!  We really feel like there is a lot of work to be done in our area and that the Lord has prepared people to hear our message, we just need to get over ourselves and do the Lords will, not our own.

 

We were also finally able to meet with Carl for the first time in FOREVER!!  He has been out of town, because his brother in law, that he was really close with, passed away.  He told us how his brother in law was a member and gave him lots of good advice and talked with him a little about baptisms for the dead, but he was really confused about it, so we taught him about it and how its not something that is new, but that it was all taught in the bible, it really blew his mind and he wanted to learn more.  We talked with him about family history and the "turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers" and he wanted to get on board.  So on Sunday we started him up on familysearch.com and found a few of his ancestors, he loved it so much; the Spirit of Elijah is real!!

Now for the big news, we went over to the Aukemas to talk about Stan, and Bro Aukema got a call from him and he was SUPER stressed out over the whole thing and was making excuses for a whole bunch of stuff and told us that a lot of stuff didn't make sense to him, we tried to explain somethings, but he was just super stressed, so he didn't really understand any of it.  Needless to say, he didn't come to church, and he wasn't baptized ):  Satan is so real!!  He makes me so angry sometimes, Stan was so ready, but the adversary made him think that he's not... hopefully we will be able to get in contact with him this week and teach him again, help him understand things that don't make sense to him, and help him feel the Spirit.  I just want him to have the gospel, it will bless him and bring him so much happiness, but he has his agency.  All we can do if pray and keep trying.

I love you guys and hope you have a great week!

Elder Skippy