Hello Again Loved ones,
This is Elder Jones with the weekly report. I am going to start dealing with the highlights of the week to save time and i think a play by play is rather boring and uneventful. This is the last week of the transfer. I cannot believe how fast it is going. It is crazy. This week was really good.
So this week we had our Missionary Training Meeting it is a new thing that the 12 are implementing. We learned alot about how to teach by the spirit and our teaching has improved so much it is crazy! The meetings were filled with the spirit and we did a lot of role playing. It is insane how much you can learn about an investigator from a role play. President Cottrell is such an amazing man.
On So on Wednesday we went to have dinner with some members who invited a less active member over it was awesome. His name was micheal and when we were leaving them with a message we were reading out of 3 Nephi and then we went around the room and talked about what we each had learned. He said he learned more from what other people said. So i was impressed to talk about 1 Nephi 19 23 and told him that he could liken the scriptures to himself and gave him some other ways to get more out of the scriptures. It was awesome. The spirit was so strong and he is such a good guy.
Thursday was an amazing day! it was our last day of training and our evening was booked, but then our first appointment canceled and then we went to our second and he canceled too. It was Kevin. He was trying to work on some resumes so we then started to go we were on our way to see someone else when Elder Butler asked Brother Waters "Can we go see sister Godwin." sister Godwin is a less active. She doesn't come to church because she worked with an old man on the weekends ( he just died this last weekend) so we go over to her house and the first thing she says to Brother Waters is "Are you here to give me a blessing?" She used to smoke and the only time she quit was when Brother Waters gave her a blessing. She had started again when she stopped going to church. So we had a lesson on the word of wisdom and faith in Christ and how going to church would help her out. So then we gave her a blessing. After that we went to see Jimmy. Now this lesson was by far the most Spirit driven lesson of my mission. It started out with him asking about tithing. We explained how there was no plate and how tithing worked. We then looked at Malachi 3 and 3 nephi 24 I think. anyhow he realized that the Bible and the BOM work together so i think that helped his testimony of the BOM. Then the discussion moved toward eternal families and i could see how that sparked something within him so i started talking about how we needed to be baptized and endure to the end to have that I then invited him to be baptized when he knew them to be true. he said "Yes When i know that it is true" I then tried to get a date, but that didn't work he wanted some time to pray about it. Then we watched the Restoration video because we were teaching his daughter as well and we also wanted him to see it. After the movie was over we discussed how he felt. He said he felt "tingly at certain points" We helped him to realize that was the spirit, and that the spirit only testified of truth. Elder Butler then asked an inspired question. "Why would the Holy Ghost touch you at those points?" Now i don't know, but i think that if Elder Butler had not said anything that the spirit would have taught Jimmy something and it would have been the difference between a date or not, but he went on and and bore testimony of the Holy Ghost. I realize that both of us need to work on silence is not a bad thing in the lesson. It was amazing though. Jimmy is progressing and i don't think it is long before he has a solid date.
Well I am running out of time there is alot of things that happen in a week. So i will stick to the highlights. I love you all take care and always remember prayer. I love you all with all my heart thanks for the love and support
Elder Jones
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