"f e e d y o u r f a i t h
and
y o u r d o u b t s w i l l s t a r v e
to
d e a t h."
- unkown
Hey Familia!!! So Glad I could hear from so many of you this week! I love hearing about your lives and what things youre doing!
This week has been so fantastic! It amazes me how you can learn something new on a concept that you have previously explored! I am learning new world about F A I T H!!
This week we taught Tommy, who is an amazing brother we are teaching! We have an All Black Campus in our area... which as you can imagine is Heaven on earth for ME! I love it, cause everyone is so SASSY and STYLISH all at the same time! Literally Heaven! ;) Well the very first day I went there I saw this guy all the way across the campus and he was dressed so well! I wanted to talk to him and tell him how good his style was! SO! I ran after him! HA I bet that looked really funny. Anyway we talked and he said he was so amazed that someone would run after him just to talk to him... GUESS HE NEVER MET MISSIONARIES BEFORE!
Anyway we asked him what he thought his purpose was? He replied, "It's strange you ask, because I have been thinking lately that I don't have one." Well.. we then replied... "would you like to know it?" He said YES.
So we set up a time for the following week to meet, and on this particular campus the people are really "flaky" and so weren't sure if he would keep his appointment. Well we show up that next week and HE IS THERE! all ready to go! We have the most amazing lesson with him and he said he feels like what we are sharing is right and he needs to follow it.
Well Just last week after committing him to read the Book of Mormon, he comes to us having read HALF OF IT!!! He pulls up Alma, and he tells us he has decided something. So we go there with him, and he shows us chapter 32 and says "I know what I need to do..." We ask him what that was, but he replied with a quote from Frederick Douglass, which says "“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” I loved that! He decided it was time for him to act and do something. Wee extended baptism and he sat there silent for a minute and then told us He wants to be baptized!!! So he is getting baptized Feb. 7th!!
We are so excited!!! He is amazing.
We also have been able to teach some new amazing PREPARED people! I am so thankful for this gospel in my life. I wish so badly that the people I teach could see and feel what I have seen and felt. I have heard from some of my friends and past missionaries that they have gone "inactive" in the church. That absolutely freaked me out! HOW COULD YOU GO INACTIVE AFTER SERVING A MISSION?!! I thought there was NO WAY! I have been pondering this a lot, and I realized that sadly after our mission we go back to real life and Satan in so much stronger there. If we don't CONTINUALLY treasure up the doctrine of Christ we can fall away. So If you are having trouble with keeping your faith then get off YOUR BUTT and GO STUDY AND PRAY AND GO TO CHURCH! Sometimes you just have to recharge the batteries in the simplest of ways!
I LOVE EACH OF YOU SO MUCH!!!!
I pray for all my friends and family everyday.
Thank you for the light that each of you has, and shares.
God our Heavenly Father loves YOU!
Yes, YOU!
Love
Elder Patch
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