Friday, March 4, 2016

2.29.16 The Best of the Best!

Feb 29th
Whaddup Fam,


Another week out here in Nelspruit has come and gone and it has been a busy week with tons and tons of training and teaching opportunities, but nevertheless I am grateful for this week! It started with a broadcast on Tuesday morning, so we arose early in the morning and drove to the mission home. 4+ hours later we arrived and enjoyed some pizza and headed in to listen to the Missionary General Broadcast. What a wonderful broadcast, I'll cover some of my favorite teachings. Neil Andersons opening talk set the tone for the whole session and following up was David A. Bednar. He taught about helping investigators UNDERSTAND the role of the Holy Ghost in conversation. He stated "you can carry the message unto the hearts of your investigators, but they are the ones that take it into". So it was a much needed training and just provided an extra breath into our work.

 Best experiences this week.
  

Elton and Shane, a father and a son that we are teaching, have been investigating for the past 4 months and it really felt like we have hit a block with them. (I mentioned them last week)They struggled with the commitment to come to church and started to mention to us about cults and other untruths about the gospel. During the whole our discussions,  we kept  helping them read and understand and pray about the Book of Mormon. It has been a testimony builder for me to see how the Book of Mormon helps us discern truth. Not that the actual book does it for us, but it invites the Holy Ghost to do it. So we kept true to the promise in Moroni 10:3-5 and helped them understand the scriptures meaning of  "real intent." Needless to say on splits last Friday, Elder Lambert and Morrill came back ecstatic to tell  me that Elton had received his answer. The whole family came to church and they are on date for the 27th of March! Keep them in your prayers Satan loves to work on families and this family is amazing.

Best surprise of the week

I got to visit with President and Sister Ashton  it was  wonderful. Sis Aston and I had a good visit about everything in St George while President Ashton was showing his basketball moves to the elders in the MTC.We visited for about 25 minutes. They will be great for the MTC and in coming elders!
**The Ashton’s are the new MTC presidents. Their son Abe was Landen’s young men’s president before Landen l.eft


Best quote of the week
 A lady in her talk yesterday spoke about how God reveals his truth. She shared an experience in how she prayed asking about how she could feel the Holy Ghost more in her life and her answer was "stop wearing tight trousers" I might be childish, but instantly Nacho Libre popped into my mind. So it made for  a great discussion and good laugh  on the way home from church.

love you all and remember no tight trousers!
Elder bhead


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