So, first off, Mother’s
Day next week. I am not sure exactly of the time, but Brother Jeff has offered
to let us use his computers Monday morning. I have permission to send a
confirmation email on Sunday so I will do that, I’ll send you the name to
search and stuff too.
So this week was
better. We have 4 new investigators!!!
You might remember
Andrew one our former investigators. Anyway at the time I felt like some of his
siblings might be interested but it didn't really work out. It finally worked
out! We decided to drop by just to say hi
and we met his sister Minah who invited us back! So we went back on Wednesday
and Andrew, Minah, their father Maju and another sibling Baling met with us.
They are all Anglican except for Maju who still follows "the way of the
Iban".
Meeting again this
week should be good.
We also met with Kelvin
and Karren and taught the first Temple prep lesson. They are great!
We also are teaching
an institute class on Friday night. It’s doing good.
We are meeting with
Anthony and his friend Elmi’s referral on Tuesday, should be good.
Splitting your area
after working in it for three months sucks. Basically there were lazy Elders
here before and kind of killed the area a bit. Elder Poppleton and I and then Elder
Lafontaine and I finally got the area going again and then they split it......
ugh. Anyway bottom line all the referrals and such we were working on in the
other half have finally started to show face and it’s a bit frustrating.
That’s OK though,
the other Elders are good and I trust them, they’ll do a good job.
I've decided to read
the quad in a couple months or less. I started on Wednesday and am already to
2nd Kings. It’s going well, basically been reading a book, sometimes two, a
day. I've already learned a heap I didn't realize. For instance, when Jesus
says the two greatest commandments I always thought he just compiled them all
into categories in his head and then made something up. Nope, it’s actually a
direct quote from Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Anyway cool stuff. That’s
something I've noticed as I've been reading actually, that the higher law is
written all over the lower law you just have to dig for it and think about it.
10 Reasons the Book
of Mormon is awesome.
1. It brings people
to and strengthens their knowledge that Jesus is the Christ and made the
atonement for all mankind.
2. It brings to
light important doctrines and principles such as prayer, the atonement, the
plan of salvation, obedience, the power of the spirit etc.
3. It is the keystone.
It holds everything in place. Through it people can gain a lasting testimony of
the truthfulness of the gospel.
4. If you read it
every day you will become closer to your Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ.
5. It answers
questions of the soul.
6. If I read the Book
of Mormon in the morning then almost without fail I find a way to apply what I
learned during the day.
7. It backs up the
Bible.
8. It shows God’s
love and longsuffering for his children.
9. It shows us the
power of the Atonement.
10. It is the single
most useful Missionary tool there is. It, coupled with a testimony, are pretty
kuat. (strong).
Love
Elder Halpin
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