Devon - Week 49 - Temple

Went to the Temple today.

Last week we challenged Bree to read the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then teach it to us. Bree taught us the gospel of Jesus Christ better than any child I know.  It felt weird for someone else to teach the lesson especially an investigator.  Usually her Dad listens to the discussion but he was not there so we had to emergency call members to see if one could join us because we can’t teach if there is not a third male. Luckily a member joined us and it worked out. Jen the Mom listened in to the discussion :) (She is not a member) and she seemed interested.  Unfortunately the Mom could not listen to the whole discussion because of the baby, but the lesson went really well. 

Chester is an older man that is a real hoot.  He is a Baptist that gives everyone a hard time and one of his favorite lines is the true religion is Baptist because John was a Baptist.  He also like to call me Red Kentucky.  He is pretty lonely so he is cheered up when he sees us. We have started to read the Book of Mormon with him.  We go over and read a chapter and then we assign a chapter for him to read.  To our surprise he keeps every commitment we give him except for going to church. Slowly but surely Chester is reading the Book of Mormon one chapter at a time.  i have also noticed that he gets more excited to read and that he retains more and more each time he reads. I Love the power of the Book of Mormon on people.    

I went to a Baptism and a Weeding this week!  I got to witness my first wedding on my mission. I am glad that I got to work with them for a short time; even though I was not the main contributor to the baptism and the Wedding I am still glad that I could keep them progressing towards their goal.

Elder X got sick so we had a sick day.  The day went very slow for me and I had cabin fever.  But i will not forget what happened that day.  I saw a general conference DVD set and randomly pick a CD and went to a random talk.  I listen intently to the next three talks. I can’t express the exact feelings and troughs i had.  I was amassed by how direct those talks were to me.  I needed those talks and they strengthened my testimony of Modern day Prophets in which I am Grateful.